Cooley Family Farm

In our house we have salad almost every day. Our favorite salad is very simple and it is so good. The dressing is made from scratch but only has 2 ingredients and couldn’t be any easier! I got the idea for this salad from a recipe I found in a Cooking Light magazine that a friend had given me. There are so many ways that you can modify this salad to suit your own tastes.

When I made this salad last night I used our salad bag mix and I was in the mood for blue cheese. But I often switch around which kind of cheese I use. Trae likes Feta Cheese. Kevin usually eats it with no cheese or sometimes Parmesan cheese shavings. I like it with any of those cheeses or goat cheese. The salad dressing I make works great with any of those cheeses.

My salad is now quite a bit different from the original recipe from Cooking Light which calls for apples. And the apples are very good on this, but I don’t always have them on hand.

Salad Ingredients:
Our Salad Bag
Craisins
Cheese of choice

Dressing
Agave Nectar
Lemon Juice

For the dressing I always use fresh squeezed lemon juice and mix it with the agave at a 50/50 ratio. We like it kind of sweet. You can adjust the ratio to suite your own taste.

The above picture was taken last night. Sorry the photo quality isn’t as good on this one but by the time I realized it was a little bright I had already eaten my salad. And also… I was a bit spoiled because Kevin found a few sprigs of arugula in the tunnel and I used that on my salad as well. Keep this in mind when you see that arugula is available again. It seems like people either love arugula or they hate it. Obviously I fall into the category of loving it and I don’t understand at all why anyone wouldn’t love it!!

Tracy