Catherine Fulvio Salad days

Good salad dressings and fresh, local salad ingredients tick all the boxes for me at this time of the year. I usually make two to three different dressings at a time, so we’ve a selection in the fridge and it never gets boring. They are inexpensive to make from scratch and taste delicious.

Now, onto the vegetables: those ‘cut and come again’ salad leaves are easy to grow and you’ll get plenty of leaves all summer. In fact, there are a good few salad vegetables that can be grown in a patch or in pots near the kitchen door, including spring onions, courgettes (although these will need a fairly large container), beetroot and radishes. Those will keep your salad bowls filled!