Garden salad recipes

The lettuce we see today actually started out as a w**d around the Mediterranean basin

The average American eats approximately 30 pounds of lettuce each year, which is five times what was eaten in 1900.

Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family.

Loaded with vitamins and minerals, eating a salad a day will also increase the level of powerful antioxidants in your blood.

Salad comes from the Latin word herba salta or salted herbs, so called because such greens were usually seasoned with dressings containing lots of salt.

Eating Salads Won't Help You Lose Weight, Says Nutritionist. Remove these nutritionally void ingredients and a Caesar salad becomes a small portion of creamy chicken topped with cheese and fried bread. It's high calorie, high salt and sates your hunger for about 10 minutes.

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Garnishes for Salads
Keep the ingredients fresh and uniformly sized in appearance. Garnished are only limited by a chefs imagination. Vegetables (fresh or cooked), fruits (fresh or dried), cheese, proteins (meat, poultry, and fish), croutons, nuts and seeds, are options.

6 Ways To Spice Up Salads
Add Something Sweet. Freshly sliced or grilled fruit is sure to spice up the standard salad.
Play With The Texture. Creamy or crunchy, both textures can take your salad to the next level.
Embrace Variety. Try a bunch of different low-fat or fat-free dressing.
Add A Red.
Supplement A Whole Grain Yellow.
Add “Fries”

Lettuce, bell peppers, jalapeno peppers, all possible varieties of tomatoes, peas, green beans, cucumbers (regular and pickling), carrots, radishes, zucchini, pumpkins, gourds, melons (water and cantaloupe), and several herbs. If my local home and garden center sold it, I bought it. And planted it.