A taste of summer...

For under $20.00 I got the following from the farmer's market:

• 4 tomatos
• a pint of strawberries
• lettuce
• spinach
  
• green onions
• yummy bread

A trip to the grocery store got me:

• olive oil
• mozzarella
• ham
• garlic
• steak
  

On the porch I'm growing:

• lettuce
  
• chives
• basil
• tarragon
  
• mint
• catnip
• lavender
  
• sage
• tomatoes

I've decided to start making salad dressings -- they aren't hard, if you mess them up you've only used a small amount of ingredients, and the homemade ones are both more healthy and taste better.

Today I did mozzarella, tomato, basil salad. It was really good.

This weekend we'll eat steak salad -- at least once. I've found a bunch of recipes for blu cheese vinaigrette, so I'll probably make one up that includes the best parts of a couple of them.

We'll also have chef salad and a few other treats --