Thankfully, we live in a world where fresh produce can be obtained all winter, but it wasn't always so. My mom talked about how tired her family grew of canned vegetables with nothing fresh to eat. Her family loved the first green vegetables of spring. She always planted early lettuce and onions for spring salads that we called wilted lettuce . It wasn't really spring until we had one. We had wilted lettuce Tuesday for lunch. Just in case you have forgotten how, this is the way I make mine. Bacon. This just won't work without bacon. The amount I use varies with how much I have in the refrigerator. I usually use more than this, but I was in no mood to go to the grocery store Tuesday morning. Chop it up fine, then put in a skillet and cook it slow and low until it is crisp and there is a good amount of bacon fat. This is deer tongue lettuce from our garden. We usually plant black-seeded Simpson lettuce, b...
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