Earth Day! I hope you've made good plans for today. Climate change rallies, scientists' marches, picnics, gatherings. I hope you will find enough time for a healthy meal.
There are a few occasions during the year when people decide to review their life strategies. Allow the Earth Day to be a one.
Many people who visit this website are mostly healthy individuals, but many people end up here looking for ways to improve their eating habits. What we it is as is as important as how we eat it. Plant based nutrition is good for you, no doubt. Eating most fruits and vegetables raw is even better. You get the enzymes and vitamins that normally get destroyed by cooking. If raw food is new to you, a healthy salad is a good start. If you are a raw foodie but find yourself making too many smoothie bowls, a large salad for the 2017 Earth Day weekend may sound like a very good idea.
To get the best ingredients for my Earth Day salad visit local farmers' market, organic grocer, farm, or your own backyard garden if you have one. If you know wild herbs and weeds, go out and forage whatever edible plants you can find. Miner's lettuce, wild sorel, ground elder, purslane, and dandelions are abundant, but there is so much more. Caution! Do not pick up anything that you cannot identify as an edible weed or herb.
~ Earth Day Salad ~
Ingredients:
for the salad
- large bowl of mixed baby greens, and wild and garden herbs, washed
- 1 cup edible flowers
for the dressing
- juice of 2 large blood grapefruits (you can use Mayer's lemons if you prefer)
- 1/4 cup virgin olive oil or cold pressed flax or hemp oil
- Celtic sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- In a small bowl whisk the grapefruit vinaigrette. Adjust the taste to your personal liking.
- Pour dressing over the greens and mix gently. Add edible flowers and mix again. Serve right away and enjoy in good company!
The philosophy behind this salad is very simple. It's Earth Day and you've got to "taste" the nature at it best. This beautiful and tasty salad is my homage to planet Earth. Freshest greens, herbs and flowers, and a simple, clean salad dressing is all you need here. You can add other ingredients, but I wouldn't. I love the way this salad looks, and I love the green taste. Sometimes the simplest things are the most sophisticated.
Wishing everybody a very happy Earth Day 2017
- in radiant health, passionately raw - Dominique
- in radiant health, passionately raw - Dominique
Dominique Allmon©2017
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