With the bounty from our adventure yesterday, we were in need of some ideas on how to use our red ripe strawberries. (Will I ever be able to think again without lines from children’s books popping into my head? Considering the amount my son asks me to read to him, probably not.)
But I digress…
Since it’s spring, and I couldn’t find any recipes I liked for a spinach salad using strawberries, I decided to create my own.
Strawberry Spinach Salad
Ingredients:
- about 5 ounces fresh baby spinach
- 1 to 2 cups strawberries, sliced
- 1 cucumber, sliced and quartered
- 1 tomato chopped
- 1 15 oz. can black beans, drained and rinsed really well
- 1 avocado, sliced
- 1/4 cup alfalfa sprouts
- 1 tbsp fresh chives chopped
- 1/4 cup slivered almonds
- 2 tablespoons chia seeds
for the dressing:
- 1/8 cup balsamic vinegar
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
- hard cheese for grating on top- I used a raw gouda
Directions:
Combine all of the ingredients for the salad in a huge salad bowl, and toss well.
To make the dressing, stir the balsamic vinegar and honey together in a bowl. Slowly add the olive oil into the mixture while whisking continuously. Season with salt and pepper. Drizzle the dressing over the salad just before serving, then grate the desired amount of cheese on top.
It was delicious!
I didn’t want my son to be overwhelmed with the salad, so I assembled the beans, avocado, cucumber, strawberries, almonds and alfalfa sprouts on a plate for him before I made the salad, and he ate every last bit of it!
, and because of that he insisted he take along a little tin pail to collect his berries. Just as I suspected, I never heard the “kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk” from strawberries hitting the bottom of the pail, because he pretty much ate every single berry he picked.
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Take these to the hospital with you too- you’ll need to use them for those first few diaper changes to get all of the meconium off of baby’s sweet bottom. We used these in the first few weeks since our doctor told us we weren’t allowed to used wipes until he was 2 months old! We had no idea!
are my favorite, but the most expensive. I also used the 365 brand from Whole Foods, Seventh Generation, and anything that didn’t contain any sort of petrochemicals)
. These things are amazing!!!
I had several different kinds, but the only ones I really liked that were the safest were the American Red Cross brand
Take this to the hospital and have the nurse give your baby his first bath in it! It’s so much better than anything they might use.
for the entire 2 years my son was in diapers, he never had a diaper rash. I attribute that to this cream- I put it on at the very first sight of redness or irritation.
