-- Tasty's -- The Power Of Flower7 Salad

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 cup baby spinach leaves or 1 cup mixed greens
• 2 -3 stalks green onions, whole
• 8 slices bell peppers, seeded, membrane and stem removed (use a variety of colors like orange, red, purple, yellow, etc.)
• 2 black olives, cut in half
• 4 chive blossoms
• 2 -3 large strawberries, stemmed and sliced
• 1/2 cup green peas
• fresh variegated mint leaf
• light vinaigrette, your choice

Recipe

• 1 *note: see my posted photo above for a guideline on how to arrange the vegetables, fruit and herbs on the platter. of course, how you arrange the produce and what produce you choose, is left to creative license.
• 2 place the baby spinach or mixed greens towards the bottom of a platter.
• 3 set the green onions on the platter-these are your "flower stalks".
• 4 place the slices of bell pepper in a "flower" pattern on the green onion stems.
• 5 place the strawberry slices (the "petals") between slices of bell pepper "petals". (i would have added more strawberries but i ran out.).
• 6 arrange each black olive half in the middle of the flower and garnish each olive with a chive blossom.
• 7 put the green peas on top of the spinach or mixed greens.
• 8 place mint leaves around the edges of the platter.
• 9 serve salad with the vinaigrette.
• 10 'be like the flower, turn your face to the sun'. kahlil gibran.