Recipe: Melon-avocado salad with lemon vinaigrette
Contrasts in texture, color and taste make this melon-avocado salad a lively
dish. (Photo: Debbie Arrington)
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This savory summer salad takes melon balls in a totally different direction.
When melon meets avocado, the contrast in color, texture and taste makes a delightful mix. Shredded cabbage adds a layer of crunch – and keeps the little balls from rolling off the plate. Zippy lemon vinaigrette pulls it all together.
It’s fast, different and delicious.
Melon-avocado salad with lemon vinaigrette
Makes 2 large or 4 small servings
Ingredients:
2 cups cabbage, shredded
1/2 cantaloupe or muskmelon, seeded
1 large avocado, seed removed
Zest of 1/2 lemon
For dressing:
Juice of 1/2 lemon
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1/2 teaspoon ground red pepper flakes
1/2 teaspoon sugar
Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions:
Arrange shredded cabbage on serving plates. With a melon baller or soup spoon, scoop out balls of melon and arrange over cabbage. With a smaller scoop or spoon, scoop out balls of avocado and arrange on top of melon balls.
For dressing, combine lemon juice, olive oil, ground red pepper flakes, sugar, salt and pepper in a jar with a tight-fitting lid. Screw on the lid and shake until combined.
Drizzle dressing over salads. Top with lemon zest.
Serve immediately.
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Garden Checklist for week of Nov. 3
November still offers good weather for fall planting:
* If you haven't already, it's time to clean up the remains of summer. Pull faded annuals and vegetables. Prune dead or broken branches from trees.
* Now is the best time to plant most trees and shrubs. This gives them plenty of time for root development before spring growth. They also benefit from fall and winter rains.
* Set out cool-weather annuals such as pansies and snapdragons.
* Lettuce, cabbage and broccoli also can be planted now.
* Plant garlic and onions.
* Keep planting bulbs to spread out your spring bloom. Some possible suggestions: daffodils, crocuses, hyacinths, tulips, anemones and scillas.
* This is also a good time to seed wildflowers and plant such spring bloomers as sweet pea, sweet alyssum and bachelor buttons.
* Rake and compost leaves, but dispose of any diseased plant material. For example, if peach and nectarine trees showed signs of leaf curl this year, clean up under trees and dispose of those leaves instead of composting.
* Save dry stalks and seedpods from poppies and coneflowers for fall bouquets and holiday decorating.
* For holiday blooms indoors, plant paperwhite narcissus bulbs now. Fill a shallow bowl or dish with 2 inches of rocks or pebbles. Place bulbs in the dish with the root end nestled in the rocks. Add water until it just touches the bottom of the bulbs. Place the dish in a sunny window. Add water as needed.
* Give your azaleas, gardenias and camellias a boost with chelated iron.
* For larger blooms, pinch off some camellia buds.
* Prune non-flowering trees and shrubs while dormant.
* To help prevent leaf curl, apply a copper fungicide spray to peach and nectarine trees after they lose their leaves this month. Leaf curl, which shows up in the spring, is caused by a fungus that winters as spores on the limbs and around the tree in fallen leaves. Sprays are most effective now.
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