Green Salad with Oranges

We have been making this salad all winter with lettuce from the Peralta Gardens and oranges from neighborhood trees.  It is one of my favorite salads and my students enjoy it.  A few of the older students are getting pretty good at cutting off the orange peels and then slicing the oranges.




Lettuce
Peeled and sliced oranges
Tangerine segments
Sliced jicama
Sliced avocados
Dried Cranberries

I make a dressing with lemon peel, orange peel, lemon juice, orange juice, olive oil, a little dijon mustard and salt

Buckwheat Crepes

Making Crepes

I am so happy to see some spring fruits and vegetables at the markets and stores.  Strawberries are plentiful and inexpensive now so to celebrate we made buckwheat crepes filled with strawberries and oranges.  We added some vanilla yogurt for a sauce.  These are delicious, nutritious, gluten free, easy and fun to make.  This is the recipe that we used - http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Basic-Buckwheat-Crepes-357236

Preparing the filing

Avocados

Cutting Cilantro

A recipe - you can decide on how much

Avocados

Chopped or mashed garlic

Chopped Cilantro

Chopped Jalapeno

Lime Juice

Salt

You can add also onions, jicama or tomatoes

This has been an amazing year for avocados, these all came from a tree in the neighborhood.  The avocado tree at Peralta is bearing fruit for the first time in any one's memory.  What is really surprising is that they taste great.  We have had a surfeit of them and so we made guacamole that we scooped up with carrots and jicama.  I was surprised at how many carrots the kids ate even after we finished the guacamole they couldn't get enough raw carrots.

Mashing Avocados

Eating Guacamole with carrots and jicama