Butterfly Garden Salads

 

Some flowery butterfly-y Mama salads!

GF Rhubarb Crunch muffin, organic golden plums and strawberry, chocolate, organic salad (red lettuce, cabbage, spinach, purple broccoli, carrots, radish, tomatoes, raisins sunflower and chia seeds, hemp hearts, raspberry vinaigrette)

 

Thursday, 6/6/13 - For this salad I tried to get fancy and attempted radish butterflies from my new garnish book. Ha! Fail! I even had a fancy flex paring knife for the fine details. Oh well. Not bad for my first attempt. But bad enough to make me a little gun-shy for a while!

Since I wasn't about to keep butchering radish butterflies the fancy way, I used a mini butterfly cutter on the rest of the radish to make more obvious-looking butterflies. And got a big slice of carrot (I love my CSA farm!) for my fancy butterfly veggie cutter. Easier and better than my hand-cut ones!

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organic strawberries, leftover GF veggie burger wrap, organic salad (red lettuce, cabbage, spinach, broccoli,
carrots, Chiogga beets, raisins sunflower and chia seeds, hemp hearts, raspberry vinaigrette)

 

Wednesday, 6/12/13 - I had some leftover veggie burgers and combined the scraps along with the uneaten bit from the girls' lunches the day before and crumbled them up. mixed them with some gluten-free teriyaki sauce, and wrapped them with lettuce and a gluten-free tortilla, secured with jewel picks. Meh. They were okay. I'd eat them again. But I wasn't a huge fan.
For my salad, I hid all the stuff under some spinach to show off the details. I used a large flower veggie cutter on some carrot coins and my fancy butterfly cutter on some striped beets (the scraps got chopped up and tossed in with the salad.)

GF chocolate donut, organic champagne grapes and pluot, organic salad (red lettuce, kale, chard,
broccoli, carrots, tomatoes, raisins sunflower and chia seeds, hemp hearts, raspberry vinaigrette)

Friday, 8/2/13 - No butterflies. But I have a ton of backlogged lunches, and three lunches are more interesting than two! I used a small flower veggie cutter on some carrot coins. Boom. A few extra seconds to make my lunch more fun! (Even less if I planned ahead and cut all my carrot shapes out for the week all at once!)

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