Was that a mouthful enough for you?

I feel like this is kind of an awkward time of year for produce. I mean some of us are skirting towards Spring and the rest of you are buried under like 90 inches of snow and ice (sorry guys). It’s too late to really be cooking with squashes and other fall vegetables, but the Spring produce hasn’t really showed up yet. It’s kind of random and a little bit depressing when I look at what I have been throwing in my produce cart.

But I was craving raddichio (how bizzare is that?) in a salad this last week and I started piecing together random ingredients to make lunch for my niece and I. The result was strangely delicious and so I wound up taking a picture of it and sharing it with you today. It is kind of a knife and fork type of salad, but truth be told, we mostly ate it with our hands. Using the raddichio leaves as the “taco shell” we loaded them up with the avocado chunks, shredded chicken, grapes and hazelnuts and then a drizzle of vinaigrette and we were shoveling them in! (Do you love how I am so obsessed with tacos that I even try to make salad into a taco?)

I am sincerely trying to be even healthier than usual as the threat of the end of elastic pants and enormous knit sweaters that no one can see your body under season is nearing it’s end. You know what I mean? So salads like this are going to be seen a little more frequently than usual around here that ok with you?