Experience Nutrition Farm-to-Table Recipe: Quick Chopped Spring Salad featuring The Farm at South Mountain CSA

By Melanie Albert, Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition, Intuitive Cooking Expert, and Award-Winning Cookbook Author

I am so honored and have so much fun intuitively creating dishes inspired by what’s growing seasonally by Lead Grower, Billy Anthony, at the Soil & Seed Garden at the Farm at South Mountain, a local urban farm in Phoenix, Arizona, just a few minutes from my home.

Let’s take a look at The Farm at South Mountain this Spring and some of the beautiful flowers: Bachelor Buttons, Sunflowers, and Asters. Perfect spot to breathe in nature and enjoy a moment of self care. Yet, another reason to visit our local urban farms.

Quick Arizona Farm-to-Table Chopped Spring Salad

While Billy Anthony of the Soil & Seed Garden is still harvesting a few Arizona Winter root crops (beets, carrots, daikon), in early May,  Spring veggies (zucchini and celery) are also growing.  It’s a fun time to create a really simple salad combining the different colors, flavors, and textures of both seasons. Plus, so great to garnish with basil – Amethyst and Genovese from my first Elevated Edible Garden!

Look closely…The beauty of the squash and it’s blossom…

Simple Ingredients

Chopped Salad

• 3-4 carrots, cubed
• 1 zucchini, cubed
• 1 daikon radish, cubed
• 3-5 celery stalks, rough chopped
• 1 medium tomato or 8-10 mini-tomatoes

Dressing

• ½ fresh lemon juice, approximate ¼ cup
• ½ cup olive oil, twice as much as the lemon juice
• 2-3 stems fresh herbs, such as mint, basil, and onion chives, rough chopped
• Pinch sea salt

Simple Steps

• Pour lemon juice, olive oil, fresh herbs, and sea salt into a small bowl.
• Whisk until combined.
• Adjust with lemon, olive oil, and salt to suit your taste.

• Place all veggies into a bowl.

• Pour dressing over the veggies.
• Gently toss.
• Garnish with fresh herbs and edible flowers, such as bachelor buttons.

Enjoy your fresh salad.

Join us at our Plant-Based Cooking & Self Care Retreat in Sedona, Arizona, September 13-16, 2019.  Would love to share more with you and answer any questions. Melanie Albert

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