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FARMER’S MARKET SALAD / Salad serves 2. Dressing serves 4.
Fresh and delicious with corn, zucchini, red bell pepper and tangy sun-dried tomato vinaigrette.
Salad 2 heads romaine, chopped (or 5 oz. spinach or baby kale) 2 ears of corn kernels, 1 small zucchini, in moon shapes 1 – 2 nectarines or peaches 1 red bell pepper, diced 1 avocado
Sun-dried Tomato Vinaigrette processor 1/2 cup water 3 tablespoons olive oil 3 tablespoons sun-dried tomatoes (packed in oil or water soaked), see notes 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar 1 clove garlic salt/pepper
Instructions Salad: For the salad use a much, or as little, as you like of each vegetable. Assemble: Fill individual bowls with leafy greens and top with the remaining produce. Drizzle with sun-dried tomato vinaigrette overtop. Finish it off with mineral salt and freshly cracked pepper to taste.
Notes Oil-free + raw vinaigrette: Soak dried sun-dried tomatoes in water for at least 20 minutes. Omit the oil, using water.
Looks like spring is coming here.
Temps regularly getting above freezing during the day so seedlings can go outside during the day.
The snow pack is FINALLY visibly melting. Stuff’s starting to be exposed that’s been buried for weeks.
Weird. Seed potatoes in the store a few weeks ago. Way earlier than usual iirc.
Mostly warm and dry here in Central Missouri this past week. We got quite a few things knocked out over the weekend.
I retrieved the Red Menace from the body shop Friday morning. The radiator grille piece is on 2-3 week backorder so they put the broken one back on for now. I’ll have to take the truck back to have that swapped out, but that’s a minor inconvenience at this point.
I started off Saturday swapping the OEM wheels/tires that I run during the winter for the high fashion Fuel ten spoke wheels and meaty Yokohama tires that I run the rest of the year. The truck looks nicer and performs much better with the Yokos on compared to the Firestones that it came with. I tweaked my back a bit working on that task, which slowed me down some for the rest of the weekend, but it didn’t stop me.
I got Nanner out and cleaned up one of the winter’s bale butt/horse poo piles and put all of that on the compost heap in the new garden patch, and put a fresh bale on the other pile. Now that decent weather is here there’s no need to keep two bales out at once.
Mrs. Augie and #1 Marine daughter spent quite a bit of time Saturday and Sunday picking up deadfall and patching fence around the horse pasture. One section of temporary fence that is due for replacement had grown up in wild blackberries/multiflora rose and was quite a mess. I used the loader bucket on the tractor to slice the canes off at the ground then pushed them across the pasture and dumped the mess over the fence into the woods. Made short work of what would have been half a day’s worth of really nasty hand-to-briars combat.
I cut down another half dozen or so dead trees around the pasture fence and made bonfire wood out of quite a bit of that. The scrappy bits were shoved to the edge and heaved over the fence into the woods. There are a few more dead ones that I need to cut before they decay to the point they aren’t safe to work on - probably another half day’s worth of work. Once that’s done the fencelines should be good until next spring.
The big win for the weekend... I got the last cattle panel arch installed on the hoop house frame and got them all tied together, and installed the last two panel sections on the side walls. Now I need to frame the end walls and then it will be time to install the plastic sheeting. I doubt I’ll get all of that done in time to get much use out of the hoop house this spring, but come fall it will be in shape to provide green salad etc. well into the winter.
I’d intended to pick up a couple bags of potting soil and get some lettuce going in the greenhouse but I never made it to the store for that. With Daylight Savings Time now in effect I should be able to get that done one evening this week.