I LOVE EASY recipes. And this, fresh, Awesome, Easy Rhubarb Salad is just that!
Help Out Local Businesses
I am always willing to help out local businesses and *hopefully* inspire those I live, work and play with to try new eats, new ways of being, doing and acting. So I reached out to Christi Bell, Farmer Extraordinaire from Little Roots Ranch, on Camano Island, WA, to see if she’d like me to create fresh, health-inspired recipes to accompany her CSA deliveries. And she said YES!
What is a CSA?
What is a CSA you may ask? A Community Supported Agriculture is the connection to a local farmer who grows food specifically for the area in which you live, and being a member, helps to support the work and efforts of the farm.
Community Supported Agriculture is VERY important to local communities like Camano Island, WA because it is rural and, although located in a farming community, fresh vegetables and produce are not always easily available to everyone.
A CSA supports the local food supply by offering fresh, nutritious, quality foods to residents, at a reasonable cost. To me, this means fresh, highly nutritious, seasonable foods right to my door!
I Know Who Grows My Food!
I know who grows my food! This makes it even more tasty, and more nutrients are absorbed, because I know who’s hands lovingly dug in the soil, I know who carefully checked on it, cared for it as it grew, and skillfully harvested and then delivered it to my door.
Created with the Same Amount of Love
So, this Awesome, Easy Rhubarb Salad Recipe is created with the same amount of love, respect and honor that Christi puts into growing her scrumptious, fresh, local, pesticide-free produce.
Plus, it is filled with Plant Power! for health and vitality!
Ready for the Recipe? Scroll all the way down to print, or click the photo!
Fresh bok choy, Russian red kale, chives, lettuce, spinach, carrots and rhubarb are the fresh ingredients.
Chop rhubarb into slices.
Add chopped rhubarb to pot and boil for about 5 minutes.
While rhubarb is cooking, chop up all other veggies. Did you know you can eat chive flowers? Plus they are beautiful!
Chop up all veggies, shred carrots, chop their tops, toss everything together. Hope your cat doesn’t eat it all!
Let rhubarb cool. It should be real soft. Add water and rhubarb to blender.
I love supporting local farms. Camano Island Honey at Sanctuary Farms- click the photo for a link to their store. Or find a local honey near you!
Blend up rhubarb, honey, grainy mustard, vinegar, and olive oil.
Drizzle vinaigrette over salad. Serve in your favorite bowl, and use favorite serving utensils.
Serve on a pretty plate, with your fave beverage.
Things I learned…
I always learn a few things as I prepare meals. Here’s a list of stuff I learned.
Honey tastes good by the tablespoon.
Vinaigrette is tricky to spell.
It’s ok to mess up and add a tablespoon instead of a teaspoon of grainy mustard.
I didn’t die when I ate the carrot top.
Moozie likes bok choy.
Bok choy is spelled C-H-O-Y, not choi.
If you forget about the rhubarb while it boils, and it boils for ~10 minutes instead of 5, it is still ok.
PS… want another simple yummy recipe… click my Easy Roasted Vegetable Soup. This salad and the soup are YUM, and easy dishes you can SMILE while serving.
Got a question? Email me here >>> nicole@bluemonarchhealth.com
You are loved, Nicole xo
Nicole Vienneau MSN, RN, NC-BC
Active Aging Specialist & Head Motivator!
After two decades as an Intensive Care Nurse caring for the sickest of patients, Nicole left the one-size fits all healthcare industry, and created Blue Monarch Health, where she is; Active Aging Specialist, Health Protection Expert and Head Motivator! Instead of waiting for you to get sick, she meets you where you live, work and play, to enhance your health and vitality.
Nicole Vienneau achieved a Master’s in Nursing Science from the University of Arizona, a board certification in Integrative Nurse Coaching from the American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Corporation, and is Senior Faculty with the Integrative Nurse Coach Academy. She is a Functional Aging Specialist, personal trainer, yoga teacher, and group fitness instructor and a retired Reebok-sponsored Fitness Athlete. When she’s not coaching clients or writing blogs, or hosting the Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! Podcast, you can find her teaching active older adult fitness classes, volunteering with the Alzheimer’s Association, lounging in the sun with her cat babies, or on a hike with her awesome husband.
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