MAKE YOUR OWN SALAD BAG and a recipe and tip....

Good Thursday Morning to you all. 

Again today I am just posting a quick little thing that you can do perhaps over the weekend,. 

This is salad time of the year.  Fresh greens and fixins in our gardens and at farm markets  and grocers are so easily available.

That means lots of washing of veggies... especially lettuce... 

Some of you girls perhaps have salad spinners for washing your greens.. They are great and do a good job.  But I find that they take up so much space. Or perhaps you are using a lot of paper towels... Anyway,  one day last summer Terry and I went to an antique show and I bought a SALAD BAG...

I washed it up and began using it.. I had one previously and loved it but it was getting worn out so I was happy to find another.

 

Then this Spring I came up with an easy way to make my own salad washing bag... 

 They are much simpler... They fit into your drawers and when you are finished they go in your kitchen laundry and back into the drawer...

All that one has to do is to buy 2 absorbent towels...tea towel or extra large dish cloths and sew them together just at the edges...

I received a package for Christmas of these nice dish cloths... they are huge and they were bought at Costco but you can get them at the dollar store or use a couple you already have,,,,

Sew the edges together and leave and opening at one end ...

Wash your salad greens in cool water, place in a strainer for a few shakes and then put into the bag....

Just roll it up and  voila...... dry salad greens...

Use it to dry your tomatoes, peppers and such, too..

TOSSED SALAD DRESSING

3 Tablespoons sugar

1/2 cup good vinegar

1/2 cup water

1 Tablespoon olive or canola oil

herbs of choice or salad seasonings...

Edna Stabler *a mennonite cookbook writer.... tells in her cookbook..

MORE FOOD THAT REALLY SCHMECKS ..

.a hint to keep your tossed salad crisp a long time before serving...

HINT...

Blend the sugar, vinegar and water, then toss lightly with the salad greens and keep in a cool place for several hours if necessary...

Just before serving drain off the liquid from the salad and mix it with the oil and seasonings and toss it again with your greens....

I love fresh herbs for the seaonings, myself.. just chop them up...

I use basil and parsley when we are having pasta... thyme or rosemary if we are having chicken,  Terry likes oregano with his spagetti...you catch my drift?  smile....

How are your herb plans coming?

Enjoy....

Here it is Thursay already, girls.... Mothers Day this weekend.. Shonda is taking me to a Mothers Day Evening tonight... 

Bless her... And we are going through St. Martins before just to check on things..

Perhaps I will take a pic of the lovely Bay of Fundy for you..

Check back tomorrow and thanks for checking in today...

I love your sweet comments... 

God Bless...