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Tag: salad

  • Creamy Mandarin Cilantro Dressing/Sauce

    Creamy Vegan Dressing or Sauce from Mandarins and Cilantro Our Satsuma Mandarin orange tree is loaded with fruit. Time to find creative ways to use them all. We posted a tasty Mandarin Oatmeal Bar recipe earlier. Now time for a salad dressing/sauce. Along with those Mandarin oranges we have a good crop of cilantro and lettuce…

  • Miner’s Lettuce: On the Wild Side

    Harvesting Miner’s Lettuce After our good rains in January we have lots of Miner’s lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata) popping up around the garden, even in our vegetable beds. It is a native plant in Western North America ranging from Southern Alaska and Canada all the way to Central America. The name comes from the California gold…