Spinach Salad With Nectarines
"We have potlucks at work every couple of months or so, and to encourage more people to bring things we have contests for homemade food. Our co-workers try everything and vote blindly, prizes are given to a winner in each category. If you've won for a dish once, you can't bring it to be voted on again, plus I'm usually trying to come up with something new each time I bring a dish. I was in the mood for a salad last summer and hadn't brought one before so I threw this together. Since this was for a potluck, I tried to do as much as possible in advance, making the dressing the morning of and because I didn't want to deal with the nectarines later, I diced them and threw them in the dressing as the lemon juice would keep them from getting brown, then I assembled the rest of the salad just prior to serving. I did win first place and even our vice president was asking for the recipe. You could garnish with edible flowers for a special touch. Have fun with it!"
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
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Dressing
- 1⁄2 cup salad oil
- 1⁄3 cup rice wine vinegar
- 1⁄4 cup fresh lemon juice (about 2 large lemons' worth)
- 1⁄8 - 1⁄4 cup sugar, depending on your preferences
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 -5 sprigs of fresh mint
- 2 tablespoons poppy seeds
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Salad
- 2 bunches fresh spinach, stems removed,leaves washed,and patted dry
- 1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 pint fresh blackberries
- 2 ripe nectarines, peeled,pit removed and diced
- 1 green onion, sliced
- 1⁄4 cup finely chopped walnuts
directions
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Dressing:
- In a blender, throw all ingredients except mint and seeds.
- After blending until smooth, add a few leaves from the mint and blend.
- Taste and continue until to your satisfaction/taste.
- After mint has been added and blended, add poppy seeds.
- Refrigerate.
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Salad:
- Combine all ingredients except walnuts in a bowl, being careful not to crush the blackberries.
- Shake dressing to blend, pour over salad, mixing with your hands to lightly coat vegetables and fruit.
- You may not need all of the dressing, so pour some and mix before pouring more.
- Top with walnuts.
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As my nickname might imply, one of my hobbies does have something to do with bikes. The motorized kind, I enjoy endurance motorcycle riding. I'm a big fan of car racing too, particularly the European stuff, road racing, and endurance car racing, not so much NASCAR, but no offense. The Beau and I get to take his car out once in a while for autocross and basically drive like speed demons and not get in trouble. I love driving in general and am one of the few nutz who enjoys shopping for cars.
But I also love to cook. Believe it or not, my mom doesn't think I can cook. But she couldn't cook, so that's probably how she got on that track. My sister and I were latchkey kids and learned to help in the kitchen at a young age and I consider cooking a great outlet for my creative bits.
I work full time but am in school on and off part time, plus try to keep up with current events and life in general, plus teach a weekly class to my co-workers, plus just hanging out with The Beau and all our good friends. Oh and I also pet/house-sit -- I used to do it for friends but recently hired on with a "company" and am now kinda one of their contractors. I'm a dog freak but don't have a good setup for dogs, so pet-sitting is how I get my dog fix. I have a kitty, she's 18 and at her age I figure she deserves a taste of whatever's on my plate.
