Grama Sue's Green Salad

Or is it, “What's in Grama Sue's salad today?

My salad's change all the time with the seasons and with my fancy. Grampa Tom says my salads are always an adventure. Good thing he is a more adventurous eater than he used to be!

I love to put different herbs and wild ingredients as well as lettuce, chard, other salad greens and garden veggies in my salads. This one has:

Ice Berg Lettuce

Red and Green Baby Chard

Lemon Balm

Fingerling Zucchini

Oregano

Lemon Basil

Chopped Chives, Parsley and Dill Leaves

Snow Peas

Buttercup Weed

Radishes

Kohlrabi

My very first Red Ripe Tomato

and Red Clover Leaves and Flowers

Varying and mixing different herbs and other ingredients ensures a good variety of vitamins and minerals. Make sure your salad has a good variety of colors and throw in a few edible flowers for fun!

Egg Shampoo

We have an abundance of eggs right now so I've been fiddling around with egg shampoo. I love it! My hair feels so soft and it is so shiny even after not washing it for a few days! Here's the recipe I've been using:

one egg

1 tsp olive oil

2 TSB vinegar

2 TSB lemon balm tea

Mix together well and put in bottle.

This shampoo doesn't create a lot of suds like a regular shampoo and it doesn't leave your hair "squeaky clean", but after it dries your hair will look and feel fantastic! It seems like the longer I use it, the longer I can go between shampoos. I've always wondered how women used to be able to go for a month without washing their hair, but I think I understand now. This shampoo doesn't strip the natural oils from your hair, so your scalp doesn't over produce oil to compensate.

I haven't tried mixing up huge batches of this shampoo to see if it would go bad, but I did leave some sit for a couple of days and it was just fine.

The original recipe I saw called for lemon juice instead of lemon balm tea, but I didn't have any lemon juice so I substituted. Lemon balm tea has a reddish tint to it that I thought would go with my auburn hair. You might want to use lemon juice or black tea depending on your hair color.

God Bless You All!

~Grama Sue