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.
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.
