Lettuce Necessities

This year I made an attempt to grow my own lettuce. My mom gave me the idea last year to plant it in my containers before I put flowers in them.  You can ideally start growing lettuce in mid-April in the Mitten state, where as one isn't quite brave enough to plant flowers yet, due to the chance of frost.  And it was a success!  I had quite the generous crop!  But it takes some tools to get your lettuce ready to consume. 

A must have tool for home grown lettuce is the salad spinner.  That is the best intervention ever!  Lettuce can get pretty dirty and needs to be washed a couple times. That thing makes it easy to soak and then spin dry!  However if all you have are strainers, those will work, just the spin dry processes because more of a pat dry processes...

And the final product!!

Is a yummy bowl of salad.  So what have we been having for dinner lately, grilled chicken salad, grilled steak salad, a little side salad with pork chops, and I've been having a salad for lunch every other day!  I've even gave some to the neighbor, and still took some to work for a pot luck!  I believe I will be doing this again next year! 

Not sure who said this, but it rings true in my world “Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life.”
Well OK, maybe in my Hubby's salad, because to him a salad with no bacon is just a bowl of lettuce.  True, honey, so very true!