Garden Fresh Salad

We have to brag just a bit - this salad contains 90% home-grown veggies.  Green leaf lettuce, spinach, cucumber, and a neighbor gave us a couple of his tomatoes. I tried to sneak in a few posts - hoping that no one will notice that we haven't posted since August - eeks!  This salad was crafted back in September - with the bouty of our little garden.  Who would have thought that all 30 lettuce & spinach seeds that I planted would actually all grow?  Thus - resulting in quite a few salads like the one pictured above.

I would beg to differ that nothing tastes more satisfying than fresh, from the yard vegetables.  In our attempt to lighten up the dinner plate a little bit a salad was a refreshing change to a heavy meal.  This salad was packed full of spinach, green leaf lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, a handful of croutons and a splash of Annie's Organic Balsamic Vingarette. Annie's dressings are unfortunately a dollar or so more than regular dressings - but the short list of ingredients that I actually recognize is well worth the price. 

I can't wait until next summer and the variety of veggies we will have - we'll hopefully have an abundance of veggies that aren't just lettuce & spinach :)