Farmers Market Salad

On this lovely Friday, I will be sharing yet another food I love: salad! This sounds funny and maybe even weird, but I truly love salad! Don’t get me wrong, I love ice cream and cookies, too, so maybe the love I have for salad is a subconscious justification for my love of dessert.

I love that salad can be so diverse, have basically any ingredients in it, and in general, is very healthy. I try to up my fruit and veggie intake as much as possible, and a healthy salad is a great way to do that.

Last week, I explored the Kissimmee Valley Farmers Market and that outing was the inspiration for this meal and post. The particular week that I went, there was only one produce tent, however, I was informed that there will be more produce by November since the market is limited to local farmers and vendors. I wasn’t able to go this week, but from the pictures i saw, there was already more delicious looking produce. We have had such a hot year in Florida, that the delay didn’t bother me one bit. I was able to score these lovely items from a farm near Melbourne and Winter Park Honey on my trip.

The produce was picked fresh from the farm that morning. I love that you can still see the dirt on the leaves. Note to self, buy a salad spinner.

I didn’t have much in the house at the time, but I managed to scavenge some ingredients together to compliment these farmers market finds. This is a rustic salad that is perfect for fall. I managed to even use the honey in the sweet and spicy vinaigrette that accompanies this lovely dish.

Farmer’s Market Salad Recipe serves 2-4

2-3 heads various lettuce

1 cup baby spinach

1 tomato

1 carrot

1 sweet pepper

3 scallion stalks

handful of grapes

handful of almonds

Honey Chipotle Vinaigrette

It feels silly to give instructions on how to make a salad. I simply chopped all ingredients (after they had been washed of course!) to close to bite size.