So other day I googled and I tried my first tomato salad

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6. I grew up in an Italian family. Salad with every evening meal.

At my old age, I have changed things. Still have salad each dinner but I use escarole, romaine
or friseé(if I can find it), onion, cukes, good tomatoes if I have them.I don't use the wimpy loose leaf lettuce, just personal preference. Simple dressing of oil, red wine vinegar, a little salt and fresh basil. If Feta cheese is available on sale, I add some instead of salt. Don't use Mozzarella. In my small garden I grow Genovese Basil and flat leaf parsley. This is a good year for those herbs but the tomatoes are a bust. Tried a new one, by Burpee, called slicing tomatoes. Not again. I have 4 plants and 3 tomatoes. Maybe it is all the rain we have had here. I use Miracle Gro every 4 weeks. Helped some things but not others. The local bunny ate all the leaves on my green beans. Not mad at him, he is so cute and he has to eat too.

I don't think I've had a dessert in 10 years. I figure the salad fills the void.
Never had a garden so non-productive as this years crop. Too much rain, not enough sun. If you live in Mass, you know what anyone with a garden is facing. I'd have been better off just buying the stuff at the grocery store.
Never mind the same bunny who ate my Zinnias!