heaven in a salad!
serves 2 for dinner, 4 for pre dinner.
- mesculin greens
- 1 tart apple chopped into pieces
- blue cheese crumbles
- a shallot sliced
- handful pecans
- 4 T sugar
- 4 T water
- ~ 1/8 cup honey
- ~ 1/8 cup balsamic vinegar
- 1 smashed and minced garlic clove
- ~ 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 tsp favorite mustard
Make candied pecans:
boil 4 T sugar and 4 T water and pecans on the stovetop while stirring from time to time until liquid is mostly evaporated. Let it dry before using.
Make the dressing:
Dressing is kind of to taste. I made up approximate amounts, but it really depends on how you like your dressing. More olive oil than balsamic though always. Put honey, balsamic, garlic, olive oil, and mustard in a jar and shake.
SALAD TIME!
Mixx leaves, shallots, apple, pecans, blue cheese crumbles and dress and feel really happy.
This salad tastes great with fried chicken and it’s super simple and quick. It’s not really a recipe, just three ingredients that taste great together!
serves 2
- half head of iceberg lettuce
- several slices of smoked prosciutto
- chunky blue cheese dressing
Chop the 1/2 head of lettuce into quarters. Use scissors to cut the prosciutto into bits and fry them in a little bit of olive oil until they are crispy. Sprinkle over the lettuce and drizzle the blue cheese dressing over it all.
I’m obsessed with this arugula/mesculin mix I get from the farmer’s market. They put orange flowers in the mesculin. Usually I just throw some balsamic vinegar and a teensy bit of olive oil, but sometimes its nice to make a full blown dressing.
serves a salad for 2
- 1-2 tsp dijon mustard or any kind of fancy spicy mustard
- 1-2 T olive oil
- 3 T balsamic vinegar
- 1 crushed garlic clove
- s & p
- 1 T sugar (optional)
Look, it really depends on which flavors you really like. Add more or less of the things you like, and whisk it all together. If you like a sweeter dressing, add the sugar. Tremendous tastes abound. Throw in some herbs if you want. Like parsley. or Oregano.
- mesculin greens
- arugula
- thinly sliced onions
- sliced strawberries
- blue cheese crumbles
- sliced tomatoes
- hard boiled eggs
- s&p, oil & vinegar
TOSS IT ALL TOGETHER! ET VOILA!
