{"id":5379,"date":"2009-12-06T04:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/?p=5379"},"modified":"2009-12-06T13:12:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T18:12:39","slug":"harvest-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/?p=5379","title":{"rendered":"Harvest Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I originally planned to post this salad for Sukkot, the week-long Jewish harvest festival. Somehow, the calendar got away from me!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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When I decided to make salad my theme for this week, however, I remembered how much I liked the slightly sweet\/slightly tangy honey-mustard dressing and resurrected the recipe for my table and my blog.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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The bacon wouldn’t be very appropriate for Sukkot, of course, but it does help transform the salad into a whole meal.\u00a0The final product\u00a0has fruit, protein, calcium, vegetables, and nuts. And it tastes terrific, too.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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The dressing recipe makes\u00a0enough for another day. Just be sure to refrigerate the leftover dressing–and to\u00a0bring it to room temperature\u00a0and shake it well before you use it again.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Ingredients:<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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for the dressing:<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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3 tablespoons cider vinegar
\n1 tablespoon orange juice
\n3 tablespoons honey
\n2 tablespoons mayonnaise
\n1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
\n1\/2 teaspoon salt
\nground pepper to taste (I like to grind the pepper mill about 6 times)
\n3\/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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for the salad:<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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1\/2 pound uncooked spinach leaves
\n1\/2 cup walnut or pecan halves (or more if you like)
\n1 apple (your choice, cored but not peeled)
\n1\/2 small red onion, chopped into rings or pieces
\n1\/2 cup crumbled feta or blue cheese (or more if you like)
\n3 strips cooked bacon, crumbled (optional)
\n1\/4 cup dried cranberries (or more if you like)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Directions:<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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First, make the dressing. In a small saucepan over low heat, stir together the vinegar, the juice, and the honey until the honey dissolves. Remove the pan from the heat, and let the mixture cool for a few minutes; then use a whisk to stir in the mayonnaise, mustard, salt, and pepper. It will take a while for the ingredients to smooth themselves out.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Finally, slowly whisk in the oil. Careful pour the dressing into a jar with a tight-fitting lid that will hold at least 1-1\/2 cups of liquid.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Wash the spinach thoroughly.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Place the nuts in a small frying pan, and fry them over low heat for a few minutes, stirring constantly, to release their oils. Take the pan off the heat.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Just before you are ready to eat, slice the apple. In a salad bowl, combine the spinach, onion slices, toasted nuts, apple slices, cheese, bacon (if using), and cranberries.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Shake the dressing, and pour a third to a half of it onto the salad. Toss the salad well but carefully.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Serves 8.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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By the way<\/em><\/strong>, since I know many of you are probably in the midst of holiday shopping right now (I’m starting soon, I promise!), I thought I’d remind you that copies of my Pudding Hollow Cookbook<\/a><\/em> are available.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Of course, I’m sure most of my faithful readers’ friends and relatives already have copies of this lovely book (my text, Judith Russell’s illustrations), but if someone on your list doesn’t own a copy please consider buying it.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Domestic postage and gift wrap are free (although I have to confess that my gift-wrapping skills aren’t as good as my cooking).\u00a0 And I love to sign copies of the book.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Here’s the link…..<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00a0 I originally planned to post this salad for Sukkot, the week-long Jewish harvest festival. Somehow, the calendar got away from me! \u00a0 When I decided to make salad my theme for this week, however, I remembered how much I liked the slightly sweet\/slightly tangy honey-mustard dressing and resurrected the recipe for my table and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,17,38],"tags":[904,901,903,905,902],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5379"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5411,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions\/5411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}