#feta

#feta

Greek salads are incredibly underrated, whether you're making them at home for yourself or ordering one from your favorite local Greek spot alongside your favorite Greek dishes. A Greek-style salad is usually packed with fresh ingredients - think lettuce, red onion, Kalamata olives, cucumbers, a basic vinaigrette - and topped with the one ingredient that makes Greek salad, well, Greek salad: feta cheese. It's fatty, milky, salty, and flavorful, elevating the entire mouthfeel and giving you reason to order yours with extra on top.

My farmers' market (and my beds) are full of swiss chard. It is one of the few edible plants I could cope with this year it grows with such ease and grows back so quickly after each picking that I feel it is the ultimate kitchen gardener's friend. It is a great bedfellow for mushrooms, which lend a bit of meatiness to those leaves.