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Don’t you just love this time of the year when the spring vegetables start coming in? I sure do, and I try to take advantage of them as much as I can.

Fresh spring peas are a beauty to withhold. They taste nothing at all like the ones in the can. Frozen peas are a suitable substitute if you don’t have a fresh supply readily available in your home garden or local farmers market.

asparagus bed sq

What’s not to love about fresh spring asparagus. We are harvesting from our small patch for the second season this year. The flavor of garden to table asparagus is incomparable. But, if you don’t have your own asparagus patch, certainly buy it locally if you can. I always prefer stalks about the size of my middle finger as I think the flavor is better than in those pencil-thin stalks.

spring veg rice smk salmon salad in mix bowl

Hubby loves his smoker, and I try to take advantage of that as often as I can as well. His smoked salmon is amazingly delicious, and it freezes quite well so I often have that available. You can easily substitute store-bought smoked salmon. This salad works equally as well with any white-flesh smoked fish such as trout.

This is always a main dish for us either at lunch or dinner. As the weather starts to warm, its so nice to have it available in the frig for a quick meal. Plus, it’s a great way to use up some of that leftover rice.

spring veg rice smk salmon salad vert

The vegetable amounts and kinds are easily varied to suit your tastes, but I encourage you to use that fresh asparagus and those fresh sweet peas if you can get them at all.

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