Summer Salads

This time of year

is the best time

to load the fridge with

Summer Salads

for quick and easy lunches

and side dishes.

Wheat Berry Salad, Quinoa Salad, and Potato Salad

I was inspired to make these

after enjoying a lovely evening meal 

on the back porch at our friends home

last weekend.

They served some refreshing summer salads

with roasted chicken and pork chops.

It was all so delicious!

I've posted the Quinoa and Potato Salads

in the past (you can click on these links to see those recipes)

But the best and easiest salad of all 

is the one my Mom always made with

fresh cut lettuce right from the garden....

There really isn't a recipe for this

Lettuce with Cream Dressing

but this is how it's made....

In a large mixing bowl,

Pour a good "splash" of heavy cream,

whisk in a Tbsp. of sugar

Season with salt and pepper

Stir in a "splash" of white vinegar

Taste and adjust seasonings to your liking

Add some finely chopped sweet onion

and last but not least,

the secret ingredient that makes this salad

taste like no other,

"the leaf" (borage) - finely chopped

Mom always added this herb and would

send us out to her garden to get a "leaf" as she called it.

Now simply pile in some fresh lettuce

and toss just before serving!

Borage aka "the leaf"

Borage has a cucumber taste.

The pretty borage edible flower

Once you've grown a borage plant

and let it go to seed in your garden

you'll have no lack of "the leaf"

(I think it might be a weed!)

My niece uses the pretty flowers by

freezing them into ice-cubes.

So pretty in a punch bowl 

or glass of lemon aid.

Lunch is served.

Till next time ........ what are your favourite summer salads?