I’ve been trying to get back into exploring the creative aspect of everything in my life and that includes recipes. We’ve had such a lack of greenery and spring blooms with the never ending winter so I wanted to recreate spring on a plate. A salad isn’t the most exciting culinary meal that I’ve ever produced, but I still had fun putting it all together and damn it if this chile lime vinaigrette isn’t one of my new favorite dressing recipes. It’s interesting how something so simple can spark your creativity again and it’s left me looking forward to just experimenting and having fun with recipes and posts again.
Now about this salad..
Fresh is what I was going for and fresh is what I got! A nice mix of greens and purples not only make this aesthetically pleasing, but palate pleasing as well! Spring greens, tomatillos, snap peas, basil, cilantro, avocado… and daisy petals went into this mix. Yes.. daisies. They are safe to eat and added some fun detail to the salad. They are totally optional so you can skip them in the salad and admire them in a vase instead! I topped everything off with a zesty chile lime vinaigrette giving it a sweet and spicy finish.