Salad with ramp vinegar dressing (One Local Summer week 4)

Salads seemed like peaceful and natural meals that could be made with 100% close by ingredients. After all, salads are facile enough to encompass many abundant vegetables. And salad greens have on the agenda c trick been fruitful lately—I heard one smallholder tell someone that all the sprinkle we've been having lately has been bloody good for lettuces, but not as much for strawberries and cherries.

Where I was getting stuck was with the dressing. Oil is allowed in the confront, but I needed a provincial acidic ingredient to mix with it. I'm trustworthy I could maintain gotten away with using stock-bought vinegar, but I managed to happen ramp vinegar from a be killed in West Virginia (Bigg Riggs Farmhouse). Now, I'm sure that the vinegar they occupied to make this was collect-bought as well, but it decent seemed a trivial more in keeping with the confront. Plus, I've not ever had ramps to come. The purchase flush with seemed predestined since the vinegar expires on my birthday in 2011.

I started with a salad mix from my favorite fabricate vendor at the Mt. Hospitable farmers hawk, Tree and Leaf Subcontract in Loudon County, VA. I added some diced red onion, halved cherry tomatoes, sliced despotic-boiled eggs (motionlessly warm from the pot, my favorite way to eat them), and some chopped cloying Italian peppers (which I literally thought would clothed a bit of a kick, undeterred by being called "keen on," simply because they look like banana peppers, but no good fortune).

The dressing was totally simple—three parts olive oil to one (more like 1.5) pull apart ramp vinegar, advantage salt and spot. It was very flavorful without thought the simplicity of the ingredients because of the oniony/garlicky flavor of the ramps.

You can see more pictures here, including a instantly of the eggs more willingly than they were zealous-boiled. One of them has a bluish-conservationist shell! The vendor told me which class of hens lay eggs of that color, but unfortunately I lose. Anyone certain?