How To Prepare Garden Lettuce
Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste.
How to prepare garden lettuce. The best thing about this lettucesalad is you can pick a fresh salad for supper each night for most of. This trick works with almost every vegetable including fragile salad greens. Food companies have tried to make our lives a little easier by prewashing lettuce.
Your lettuce should start perking right up. I dont know how you lose a salad spinner but I did. Lettuce loves cool weather.
If your lettuce is a little wilted add ice to some cold water and submerge your lettuce for 10 minutes to 1 hour depending on the hardiness of the variety. Be sure you use water that is pure and not loaded with chlorine and chemicals After gently washing and drying place in a plastic bag. Clean and cut the onions into the lettuce.
In a salad bowl toss the lettuce tomatoes eggs radishes bacon and onions. DIRECTIONS Wash the lettuce several times. Do not store the lettuce in the same drawer or area as apples pears or tomatoes because these fruits release ethylene gas which can cause your lettuce to spoil.
Chill until ready to use. Step 1 Whisk the evaporated milk vinegar sugar salt and pepper together in a bowl until the sugar is dissolved. How do I know when to harvest my lettuce.
Prior to planting work organic compost or high nitrogen fertilizer into the garden soil to encourage rapid leaf growth. Depending on the variety lettuce germinates in temperatures between 40 to 85 degrees F. You can begin planting leaf romaine and butterhead lettuce as soon as the soil can be worked in the spring.