Farmer's Salad

This is the salad we had for dinner tonight. It was delicious. The salad's basic ingredients are cucumber, red leaf lettuce, spinach, tomatoes,homemade croutons and I added baked chicken strips (cut in chunks) carmalized onion relish (that I canned from the summer) roasted sliced potatoes and homemade ranch dressing. Ok, the first part of the salad is simple and needs no explanation. The homemade croutons I made several weeks ago and put into an air tight container. When our wheat bread is starting to get old, I make garlic butter and put on the top of a bread slice then cut the slice of bread into tiny cubes. Cutting across bread diagionally four times then hortizionally four times.Then bake in the ovenat 450 degrees turning occasionally until the chunks of bread are toasted. Next, the chicken, I baked some chicken strips tonight but grilled chicken would have a better flavor. The roasted potatoes were 3 medium potatoes peeled then sliced about 1/4 in thickness. Put on a greased cookie sheet put salt, pepper and garlic powder to taste, then about 1/2 teaspoon of thyme and rosemary. Drizzle with some olive oil and toss. Then bake in the oven at 400 degrees for about 25 minutes. Turning once. In place of the carmalized onion relish just grill some onions in a pan with a little butter. Grill until they are tender and a little brown. The onion relish gave our salads a wonderful flavor. But grilled onions will do the same. You can use any salad dressing you like. I already had ranch so that is what I used. I didn't add this but a couple of pieces of crispy bacon crumbled over the top would also be yummy.