The Kinda Kinky Salad

The Kinda Kinky Salad

There is no other way to explain this salad. It is vibrant, vivacious, while having a calming effect when you eat it. The colors pop and to this day it still blows my mind how vibrant nature’s own colors can be in our fruits and vegetables. The disclaimer for this salad will be that I got to go to Farmer’s Market in Baywood Park today and it was full of life. Abundance was everywhere. We walked away with some beautiful heads of both green and red leaf lettuce, beets (and their tops), fresh dates, summer squash, and some of the most amazing organic concord grapes. I wasn’t really hungry when I returned home but I just cannot let fresh lettuce not be eaten immediately. This is how it went…

2 beets, scrubbed, ends trimmed and grated
Juice of one orange
1/3 cup rice wine vinegar
1 tsp of sugar or 1 T of honey
1 T mayo
2 T olive oil
Pinch of salt
Pinch of fresh ground pepper

Lightly toss in bottom of salad bowl and let sit while preparing remaining ingredients.

½ head red leaf lettuce, roughly chopped
½ head green leaf lettuce, roughly chopped
Greens of two beets, finely chopped
1 cup or 1 bunch concord grapes
½ cup fresh dates, chopped
1 cup celery, chopped
2 spring onions, finely chopped

Add above ingredients to bowl and mix well. Serve onto plates and top with fresh pistachios and some good sheep gorgonzola or Roquefort…Really knock their socks off.

This salad will knock your socks off. Lots of textures that require ample time to sit down and slow down.