Grow your own salad

We're on the last leg of winter and I am craving sunshine and greens like there's no tomorrow! These days, I'm all about microgreens. What is a microgreen you may be wondering? Well, it's tiny and it's cute and it has small tender leaves on it. Basically it's a vegetable seedling that makes a very pretty and tasty salad. They're big in the restaurant-biz. And they're super easy to grow on your own.

I used to grow my own sprouts in a jar through the winter months since it's a great way to keep eating locally at a time of year when most greens are shipped all the way from California (ouch, not so great for the old carbon footprint). But the sad truth is, I really don't actually LIKE sprouts very much. Never have, and probably never will.  Microgreens on the other hand, just a wee step above sprouts in the growing process, are delicious. And as easy to grow as sprouts. All you need is a flat container, some soil, some seeds, and a little spot at your window. It took me just over a week to grow this little salad here. I used rapini seeds but you could grow anything from beet seeds to broccoli, red cabbage, radish,  sunflower seeds...  to name only a few possibilities. I'm no expert yet, so here and here are a couple of great resources if you're interested in trying it out. Plus check out the powerful anti-cancer properties of broccoli sprouts! 

SPRING IS ALMOST HERE SALAD

1 cup microgreens

1 blood orange cut into small pieces

1/2 avocado cubed

1/2 cup of julienned daikon radish

1/3 cup walnut pieces

Dressing

Olive oil, lemon juice, finely chopped garlic, a little salt and pepper

My rapini greens have bedhead! I overgrew these a little and undergrew the ones in the video. But I've got a batch of broccoli babies going right now which I hope to get just right.
18 days until spring!!!