I don’t have a sailboat anymore but, in my salad days, I’d go sailing at least twice a week.

Somebody else can look back once I’m gone and go, yeah, I think … these are the f— salad days right here.

The erstwhile superstar, who had notched multiple No. 1 hits during his Nixon-era salad days with his band Sly and the Family Stone, was … well, no one really knew what or where he was.

Here’s a basic recipe to get you started – enjoy the remaining salad days of summer.

From spring bulbs and blossoming trees to early-season perennials, through the tender salad days of the vegetable patch and June’s first ripe strawberry, the early days of the growing season are bountiful and sweet.