April is really a cruel month, with its promise of spring, yet nothing has really grown enough to eat yet. But if, by chance, you spread a few lamb's lettuce (mâche) seeds on your vegetable plot last autumn and you live in a warm part of Canada, you might have enough young lettuce plants to make a salad, for these tender, flavourful little lettuces come very early (they start growing under the last snow). Fortunately, the kind farmers of California grow them for the rest of us, too, so you can enjoy Mâche Salad with Goat Cheese, its springtime flavours matching our seasonal desires.