Earthbound Farm Recipes
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Seasonal Food Spotlight
Lettuce is on the Environmental Working Group’s list of foods that carry the highest pesticide residues when grown conventionally. Choosing organic salad greens is your guarantee that they’ve been grown without synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, using methods that build the soil and protect the workers — a healthier choice for you and for the environment.
• All-Green Fresh Herb Salad
• California Salad from Food to Live By
• Herb Salad with Fennel and Celery
• Mixed Baby Greens with Champagne Vinaigrette
• Mixed Baby Greens with Smoked Salmon and Mustard
• Mixed Baby Greens with Stilton and Pecans
• Rustic Salad
• Winter Citrus Salad
• Lots more recipes for Mixed Baby Greens
Spring mix or mesclun — what we call Mixed Baby Greens — is a popular salad mix of assorted tender leaves. It originated in Provence, France, where the name mesclun derives from the word mescla, which means “mixture” or “to mix.” While there’s no universal recipe for this salad mixture, it generally contains a blend of tender baby lettuces and spicy greens. In the past two decades, its popularity has exploded — it’s now a familiar feature in restaurants and home kitchens across the US, Canada, and Europe.
At Earthbound Farm, baby lettuces were some of our first crops back when we started farming organically on a 2.5-acre backyard garden over 25 years ago. We sold our fresh organic baby greens to friends and neighbors, then to local chefs in Carmel and Monterey, CA, who loved the flavor and texture of the tender little leaves. Later we became the first company to launch fresh, pre-washed organic salad greens for retail sale, and we helped start a salad revolution.
Although the ingredients in our mix may vary seasonally, the blend usually contains baby leaves of red and green romaine and oak leaf lettuces, lollo rosa and tango lettuces, red and green chard, mizuna, arugula, frisée, and radicchio. The assortment offers a potpourri of appealing colors and shapes, with leaves ranging from emerald green to burgundy, and textures varying from tender to crisp, smooth to ruffled. Our Mixed Baby Greens have the perfect balance of sweet, peppery, and bitter flavors for enticing salads that have delicious depth and complex flavor.
And don’t miss our other Mixed Baby Greens organic salad blends — including our popular Herb Salad, with the same blend of top-quality organic baby greens sparked with fresh dill, parsley, and cilantro.
Like all fresh cut veggies and pre-washed salads, our Mixed Baby Greens should be kept refrigerated in the store. Our convenient recyclable clamshell packages protect the freshness and quality of the delicate organic leaves.
At home, store your Mixed Baby Greens in the refrigerator, where they should remain fresh and delicious until the “Use By” date on the label. Regardless of the date, however, never eat lettuces that look wilted, decayed, or have an off smell. When in doubt, toss it out!
If the salad in your package hasn’t lasted until the Use By date, use our online Product Feedback form, or give us a call at 1-800-690-3200 to let us know. |
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Because the leaves of Mixed Baby Greens are young and delicate, combine them with salad dressings that are light and tart, like the Lemon Vinaigrette from our co-founder Myra Goodman’s Food to Live By. Use the dressing sparingly, just enough to coat the leaves lightly; toss it in at the last minute, just before serving, so the greens don’t become sodden.
Mixed Baby Greens work beautifully in sandwiches and wraps, too — any place you might use lettuce — where they add more vibrant flavor and interesting texture than the usual leaf or iceberg lettuce.
 Watch Myra prepare this easy, delicious dressing
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Although baby greens are picked young, they actually deliver more flavor and nutrition than mature head lettuces.
A salad of mixed baby greens provides 7.5 times more vitamin C, 10 times more iron, and 35 times more vitamin A per serving than iceberg lettuce.
Mixed baby greens are also very high in calcium and dietary fiber, and they deliver it all with just 15 calories for a 3-ounce serving.
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Food to Live By