Family Recipe Box: It’s Time for Spring Salads

Try a salad with celery as the star

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Family Recipe Box: It’s time for spring salads

It’s spring — it says so on the calendar, and apart from last week’s nor’easter,  spring means salad. Not church supper salads, not ham, egg, macaroni, or potato salad. We’re talking crisp green leaves in a bowl and layers of  chopped up fresh vegetables. A salad that can stand alone as a meal; a salad as colorful as a painting by Vincent Van Gogh. Bring on the cherry tomatoes, slice up a cuke, and put a radish through a mandolin. Let’s make a h…