Well, it's afternoons again at work, and after last week's Chicken Pot Pie, I was in the mood for something lighter. This recipe from the tasteofhome 2012 Annual Recipes cookbook fits the bill nicely.
( Special Occasion Salad )Thoughts and Variations
I used one bundle of spinach and one package of arugula. I added a few extra cherries and almonds (which I didn't bother toasting), since it seemed like a lot of leafy things and not much else; I eyeballed the salt and pepper. This came together pretty quick, being a salad and all, the longest step being cutting the stems off the spinach since I think I ended up with the full grown kind and not the baby kind.
This was a pretty decent salad, especially since I wasn't sure I liked arugula, ot dried cherries *laugh*, but I found things meshed pretty well together. It *is* a lot of leafy things though, and I feel like the dressing needed to be a little more acidic to cut through the sweetness of the other ingredients. All in all, definitely a salad to keep in my repetoire, and to keep in mind for family get togethers.
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