This salad came together quite by happenstance. At our annual Independence Day block party one year, someone brought a salad with both beets and tomatoes in it; someone else brought a fruit salad full of dead ripe thickly sliced strawberries. I put a good spoonful of each side-by-side on my plate. Somehow during dinner, a chunk of strawberry made its way over into vegetable territory, where it was promptly stabbed with a fork and then drawn through the dressing with a small piece of beet and a slice of tomato. The rest is history. (Since then, I've made this adding a few pickled beets as well, which makes it even better; you can also just use jarred pickled beets, if that is more convenient.) Enjoy!! ;o)

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