Our_saladBecause we only had moderate success with our vegetable garden last summer (we just have so many trees surrounding our back yard, there aren’t many spots with full sun), we’ve scaled back this year.

I’m going to plant some tomatoes next weekend in large pots that I can move around to make sure they get as much sun as possible, but for now we are sticking with herbs and lettuce–and this is the first big salad that we’ve made with our own mesclun.

You know it’s local when you can take maybe fives steps out your back door and get the lettuce, right?

Nena added some some sliced strawberries (not local, they aren’t in season here yet) and some goat’s milk feta from Catapano Dairy Farm. With a light drizzle of aged balsamic vinegar and some extra virgin olive oil…what more do you need?