Connie Griffin's Signature Salad

From Connie Griffin at a Hope Lodge pot luck dinner. It is the best salad. Don't let the ingredients fool you like they did me. She is a great cook guys.

• Ready In: 40 mins
• Serves: 5

Ingredients

• Almonds

• 2  tablespoons sugar
• 1  cup  sliced almonds

• Poppy Seed Dressing

• 1⁄2 cup sugar
• 2⁄3 cup  oil
• 1⁄4 cup vinegar
• 1  teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon prepared mustard
• 2  tablespoons poppy seeds

• Salad

• 1 (16 ounce) package  mixed salad greens
• 4  ounces blue cheese, crumbled
• 2  kiwi, peeled and sliced
• 1  pint strawberry, sliced
• 1 (8 ounce) can mandarin oranges, drained

Directions

1. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons sugar into a nonstick skillet; stir constantly until sugar melts and coats almonds. Remove from heat when almonds are brown. Be careful because almonds burn easily.
2. Mix together poppy seed dressing ingredients.
3. Mix dressing with the salad ingredients; chill.