Possible Clues:

• Run to get a plate for salad item
• I'd turn up in red spots
• By the sound of it, take it as read that it's food for the artist
• Mouth burner
• Tossed salad ingredient
• Salad ingredient, sometimes
• From day one, careless about food
• It's edible and is terribly hard to catch
• Small red salad vegetable
• Getting an artist to serve up salad-stuff