In an effort to sport more pictures, I documented the Spring vegetable salad I made for dinner this evening.  I was at New Seasons, poking through the veggie aisle when I spotted these gorgeous “French Breakfast Radishes” and I had to have them.  Of course, then I had to have some other stuff to go with them.  I started out with some sliced red onion, which I let “pickle” for a while in some fresh lime juice, sel gris, and a little crystalline fructose (a good low-glycemic sweetener).

To that I added the lovely radishes

followed by a very nice Pinkerton avocado

and a nice hothouse tomato. 

Oh how I look forward to the heirloom tomatoes of Summer…  The farmer’s market starts up in Hillsboro next month, but it’ll be a while before we see any local tomatoes.

The salad got finished off with a little more sel gris, and some pepper.

I see that I need to work on my food-photographing techniques.  At least they’re marginally in focus.

One last pic.  I served the salad with some asparagus sauteed in ghee, and then sprinkled with lemon juice, sel gris, and a mixture of tarragon and “grains of paradise” which I just happened to have lying around.  I got inspired by the asparagus with long pepper over at Tigers & Strawberries, but I had “grains” not long pepper.

To round things out, we had bread and cheese, and for dessert, a “strawberry papaya” filled with vanilla ice cream.  Sadly, the camera battery was dead at that point, so I didn’t get a shot of th every amazingly orange papaya.  I have another one for tomorrow, and the battery's charging, so hope for the best.