January 21: Apple Crasin Green Salad/Poppy Seed Dressing

For the next several days I will be posting some of my favorite green salads. In the winter I start missing the freshness of summer salads. My good friend, Barbara, gave me this recipe. 

Salad ingredients: 
Toss together.

1 head romaine lettuce

1 head red leaf lettuce, or 2 heads romaine , broken into bite size pieces

1 can mandarin oranges, drained

1 c toasted sugared pecans*

½ c crasins

2 Gala apples, cubed

crumbled bacon, opt.

Poppy Seed Dressing:

¾ c sugar

1 tsp salt

1 tsp dry mustard

2 TB onion

¾ c oil

1 TB poppy seeds

Blend first 4 ingredients in blender.  Blend in oil, very slowly. Add poppy seeds. 

*To sugar nuts, combine nuts in skillet with sugar and cook over medium heat until coated.