Originally Posted by
gaobest
Mixed green salad... always fun at restaurants but rare to get at home. Now as an adult, I can see the challenges for maintaining the inventory for such salad contents - I often feel that I’m short on beets, which I need to both buy and then roast before adding to a salad. I refuse to buy mixed salad bags, pre-made salads, and pre-cooked beets.
so now I’m mega enjoying both mixed green salad and Caesar salad plus the joy of having red wine vinegar for the mixed green salad. Of course the Caesar salad has the caesar dressing, which is easy to maintain thanks to shops having infinite inventory on canned anchovy!
You live in San Francisco? Mixed green salad is easily attainable for you. It takes 2 30inch long plastic planter boxes, 2 bags of potting mix, and a couple packets of heritage and mixed lettuce seeds. We had 7 different kinds of lettuce in our planter beds this past summer, and harvested a few leaves off of several varieties each night to make salads. Periodically harvest a couple mature plants and seed where you removed them. In SF you should be able to keep a planter of lettuce going nearly year round, ours in now under 4 inches of snow.