Salad Samplers #1 - Foraging the City Salad (Happy Trails For Us: My Reluctant Blog)

Salad Samplers #1 - Foraging the City Salad

And here we go again, from baking to ice cream to soup and now, drum role, please, the Sunday Salad Samplers! It is the end of April, surely spring is even creeping into Alaska, and we are going to make a new salad every week. Eden is starting us off with her simple to put together "Foraging the City Salad" or the "Palma and Jerry Salad", guess you can pick your own title for this one.

It all started, says Eden, with the blood orange, inspired by a creation of friends Palma and Jerry, which led to her to layer said orange, with a few other ingredients over a bed of greens.
The rest of the recipe came from her mind, and she tells us to be creative.

This is how I started:

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For ingredients I used:

Fields greens
a CaraCara orange, which is pink, not the red of a blood orange
Blackberries and slice Strawberries (from the farmer's market)
Feta cheese, crumbled
Roasted candied pecans, courtesy of Trader Joe's

Jerry's orange vinaigrette (check his blog for the recipe)

The hardest, ha, part of this salad was peeling and segmenting the orange, and Cindy Ruth gave us a technique earlier this week (directions on her blog).

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To assemble, I placed some greens on each of our two salad plates, arranged the berries and the orange segments, sprinkled the cheese and then artfully arranged the pecans. Could not have been easier, nor more delicious with a grilled steak and sourdough bread.

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