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Heirloom salad
Heirloom salad

John Forti's Heirloom Salad

Oct 17, 2022

Find a big bowl or a harvesting basket. Walk around your yard, garden, or local wilderness area and find every edible leaf, flower, seed, or berry you can find.
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Course
Salad

Tags

American Healthy

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Ingredients

  • Lettuce, kale, arugula, beet greens or any other greens
  • Sorrel
  • Purslane
  • Baby beet greens
  • Lambsquarters
  • Sweet Cicely
  • Salad Burnett
  • Naturtium leaves and flowers
  • Borage flowers, violets, daylilies, beebalm, calendula, or any edible flower
  • Basil, lemonbalm, chives, and other herbs for their flowers or their leaves
  • Dill seeds, nigella seeds, poppy seeds
  • Currants or any fruit or berry in season

Instructions

  1. Carefully wash and spin dry all the ingredients. Tear up larger leaves and petals and leave smallers ones whole. Carefully assemble your salad, starting with leaves, and moving on to flowers, seeds, and fruit.
  2. Splash with some good quality vinegar and oil and toss gently. Serve right away.
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Aube Giroux

Aube Giroux is a food writer and filmmaker who shares her love of cooking on her farm-to-table blog, Kitchen Vignettes. Aube is a passionate organic gardener and home cook who likes to share the stories of how food gets to our dinner plates. Her work has been shown on television and at international film festivals. 

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John Forti's Love of Gardening and Heirloom Salads

John’s salads are works of art and they have blown up and expanded my previously limited notions of what a garden salad can be.

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