Mediterranean Summer Salad

Do I have a super easy and very low-key recipe for you. This is fresh from your garden or local farm stand or farmer's market and then right to your table for the freshest and tastiest salad for summer. Our family has long made this type of salad that can be known by various names like the simple summer salad, or chopped veggie salad. This salad is closely related to the Greek Salad, however, this salad contains no letttuce. This salad is so versitile one can adjust to likes and dislikes and adjust ingredients and dressings. If you do have a garden by all means please use your cucumbers, tomato, and green peppers in this salad. Delicious! For our family the salad ingredients for this recipe we chose were:
*1 large cucumber ( chopped into 1/2" pieces) *1 tomato chopped (chopped into 1/2" pieces) (*can use 1 pint of cherry/grape tomato sliced or not) *1 medium green pepper (cut into thin strips) (*can chunk them if so desired) *About 1/2 red onion sliced very thinly *About 1/2 C to 1 C Kalamata olives (drain juice on slotted spoon) (*Can also use 1 can of black olives drained, if you desire) *1 8 ounce of crumbled feta cheese (*can use a chunk of feta and dice it if you prefer) Toss all ingredients in a large bowl leaving Feta to the last on top, set aside.
For the dressing recipe, In a small bowl mix the ingredients well and then pour over the salad ingredients and fold to mix well. *1 TBSP white or red wine vinegar (can use more to your taste if you desire) *1/4 C. olive oil 1/2 tsp thyme or oregano Once everything is stirred, We love to chill the salad for at least 1 hour to have ingredients and dressing/spices mix thoroughly. This fed four adults with a small leftover for my lunch the next day. Here's to a happy and healthy summer. Enjoy!

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