3 salad recipes to segue from winter to spring

Growing up, I knew summer was on the way not by the school calendar winding down or the warming of the sun, but when my mother would take her bathing suit out of the closet and model it around her bedroom. She would grumble about winter weight gain and grab at her middle in disgust. “We’re having salad for dinner!” she would announce to no one in particular.

Those it’s-almost-bathing-suit-season salads were anemic bowls of iceberg lettuce topped with bagged croutons and gloppy bottled salad dressing. It almost ruined the idea of salad for me. But years later, once I moved out of my parent’s house,