I've been on a hot and cold salad kick for the past two days- and a wine kick, today was a special day.
Yesterday we made Asian cabbage salad with hot tofu and rice and a sesame Asian dressing. So good! It's warm and comforting, and cool and crisp at the same time. I was pleased. I really feel like cabbage is highly under rated in our culture. It stays forever, tastes good, and is really inexpensive.
I was so inspired by my salad yesterday, and these beautiful walnuts that a patient brought in for us. I decided that I would make another hot and cold salad today instead of the sandwiches and soup I was planning on making.
Today's menu: Pear, walnut and Gorgonzola with warm chicken and a honey Dijon white wine vinaigrette.
Vinaigrette:
1 tbs honey
1 tbs Dijon mustard
1 tbs normal mustard
2 tbs olive oil
wine to thin
pepper to taste
mix honey, mustards and oil in a container until oil is fully mixed in and it creates and emulsion. Then add wine to thin it out.
Salad:
1 bag spinach, or mixed greens
1 ripe pear, julienned
1/4 cup walnuts chopped
sprinkle of Gorgonzola
dressing above
Mix in bowl
Chicken:
1 chicken breast (or quorn "chicken" is you eat like me)
t tsp dressing above
Brown chicken in pan, or on grill- glaze with dressing in last five minutes of cooking.
plate salad (there will be left over dressing, don't over dress your salad!) and then top with warm chicken sliced.
The best part of this recipe is it's crazy easy- impressive with home made dressing, and there is plenty of white wine left over for drinkin. Honestly it's really not that expensive to prepare either.
1.99 bagged salad
.80 Gorgonzola
.00 for walnuts (but these are not that costly in a bulk section)
.58 Bartlet pear
1.19 white wine
.12 Dijon mustard
.02 yellow mustard
.78 local honey
.32 olive oil
1.00 chicken breast (guessing on this, but you could also do eggs for protein as it's really inexpensive)
Grand total:
3:40 for Josh's dinner with chicken
4.59 for mine because I had a glass of wine with dinner.
Trying buying that in the restaurant for this price.
Yesterday we made Asian cabbage salad with hot tofu and rice and a sesame Asian dressing. So good! It's warm and comforting, and cool and crisp at the same time. I was pleased. I really feel like cabbage is highly under rated in our culture. It stays forever, tastes good, and is really inexpensive.
I was so inspired by my salad yesterday, and these beautiful walnuts that a patient brought in for us. I decided that I would make another hot and cold salad today instead of the sandwiches and soup I was planning on making.
Today's menu: Pear, walnut and Gorgonzola with warm chicken and a honey Dijon white wine vinaigrette.
Vinaigrette:
1 tbs honey
1 tbs Dijon mustard
1 tbs normal mustard
2 tbs olive oil
wine to thin
pepper to taste
mix honey, mustards and oil in a container until oil is fully mixed in and it creates and emulsion. Then add wine to thin it out.
Salad:
1 bag spinach, or mixed greens
1 ripe pear, julienned
1/4 cup walnuts chopped
sprinkle of Gorgonzola
dressing above
Mix in bowl
Chicken:
1 chicken breast (or quorn "chicken" is you eat like me)
t tsp dressing above
Brown chicken in pan, or on grill- glaze with dressing in last five minutes of cooking.
plate salad (there will be left over dressing, don't over dress your salad!) and then top with warm chicken sliced.
The best part of this recipe is it's crazy easy- impressive with home made dressing, and there is plenty of white wine left over for drinkin. Honestly it's really not that expensive to prepare either.
1.99 bagged salad
.80 Gorgonzola
.00 for walnuts (but these are not that costly in a bulk section)
.58 Bartlet pear
1.19 white wine
.12 Dijon mustard
.02 yellow mustard
.78 local honey
.32 olive oil
1.00 chicken breast (guessing on this, but you could also do eggs for protein as it's really inexpensive)
Grand total:
3:40 for Josh's dinner with chicken
4.59 for mine because I had a glass of wine with dinner.
Trying buying that in the restaurant for this price.
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