So as I promised yesterday, I’m posting the salad recipe I made last night. My husband was not going to be home for dinner, which meant no cooking for me. Its so easy for me to put a salad together that it was the best choice.

The ingredients were:

• Romaine Lettuce
• Raw Zucchini slices
• Raw Yellow Squash slices
• Raw carrot slices
• 1 cooked red beat
• goat cheese (just a few crumbles)
• sliced almonds
• dried plums
• 1 tbsp chia seeds
• 1 heirloom tomato sliced
• 1/4 sliced pear
• light drizzle of olive oil and vinegar

Absolutely delicious!!!! I’ve never really posted my salads as recipes because its just something I toss together. But I must confess I do have knack for making some tasty salads. We don’t often eat salads for dinner since we’ve already eaten one for lunch, but today I had some leftover Ratatouille for lunch so that fresh salad was a perfect evening meal.

Side note about a great buy: We LOVE beets, so every once in a while we roast a ton of beets, wrap them in aluminum foil and put them in the fridge to use for smoothies, salads, or a side veggie. But the other day Orlando found this little treasure at Whole Foods. Vacuum sealed cooked beets. They don’t expire until May (I think because they are vacuum sealed) and the only ingredient is: beets. He bought a couple of them and they are wonderful to have in the fridge just in case you ever want beets but don’t have any pre-cooked ones in the fridge or you don’t have the time to roast them yourself.