Purslane salad

Do you have purslane growing in your garden beds? You might not know, but this highly nutritious weed might be hiding in between your vegetables. Find it, get a good bunch of it and let's make a salad.

1. Chop the tops of the bunches and then pick the leaves from the lower stems. You might chop the whole plant, but the stems are a bit tough, so these are better be used in a compost bin.

2. Use purslane as a substitute for the greens in your salad. You could use it as a nutritious addition as well. Purslane is high in Omega 3, vitamins A, B and C as well as anti-oxidants.

3. Add other non-starchy vegetables. I just harvested these cucumbers and peppers from the garden, and added a store-bought tomato. No biggie, use what you have, the more variety the better.

4. Mix it all up.

5. Optionally (but preferably) add some chopped garlic, ground flaxseed and some of the refried beans to add protein, as well as olive oil-vinegar dressing and you are done!

6. Here's the most nutritious, tasty, filling and creative salad on the face of this planet!

I hope you learn to appreciate the weed called purslane in your garden.