END OF WINTER SALAD

Summer salads seem a long way off—even with Daylight Saving Time starting.  Here’s a fresh tasting, nice looking and very easy to put together pre-Spring side salad.  Avocados and limes are at their best right now.  Combine fresh and canned ingredients, and a lively citrus dressing, for an easy dish that goes with almost anything.  Adjust quantities to suit your table.

Salad:

• Black beans, canned—drained and rinsed
• Corn, canned, drained—or frozen and defrosted
• Avocado—chopped
• Bell pepper, fresh, orange or yellow—chopped
• Cilantro—leaves cut roughly

Dressing:

• Olive oil
• Lime juice
• Honey
• Cumin
• Sea Salt

Toss salad ingredients in large bowl.  Combine dressing ingredients, to taste, in glass jar with tight fitting lid. Shake well.  Pour a modest amount of dressing over salad and toss to coat.  Serve the rest of the dressing in a small pitcher.  There you have it!

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