Something exciting happened today…
I decided to submit an idea for a food article to a local newspaper, and today, she emailed me back and sounded really interested AND talked about making it a regular part of the paper!! She is going to talk to her editor and get back with me. I’m really excited. It is a small local paper, but I have to start somewhere, right? And again it is mostly recipes. I’m sure some of you were like… “You are going to… write… for a paper??”
For lunch, I was looking through the refrigerator, and found spinach, orange, strawberries, and goat cheese…. SCORE!!!
I decided to submit an idea for a food article to a local newspaper, and today, she emailed me back and sounded really interested AND talked about making it a regular part of the paper!! She is going to talk to her editor and get back with me. I’m really excited. It is a small local paper, but I have to start somewhere, right? And again it is mostly recipes. I’m sure some of you were like… “You are going to… write… for a paper??”
For lunch, I was looking through the refrigerator, and found spinach, orange, strawberries, and goat cheese…. SCORE!!!
Strawberryand Spinach Salad
Makes 2 meal servings or 4 side salad servings.
· 12 oz bag of prewashed Baby Spinach
· 1 cup sliced Strawberries
· 2 oz crumbled Goat Cheese
· ½ cup Mandarin or fresh navel Orange
· ½ cup Candied Pecans (recipe to follow)
· ½ cup Strawberry and Orange Dressing (recipe tofollow)
o Lay spinach on plate
o Top with strawberries, goat cheese, oranges, andcandied pecans.
o Top with desired amount of dressing.
Strawberryand Orange Dressing
· ½ cup chopped Strawberries
· ¼ cup fresh squeezed Orange Juice
· 1 Tablespoon Balsamic Vinegar
· Salt and pepper to taste
o Combined all ingredients in a blended.
o Blend until smooth.
§ You can use a strainer to remove seeds from thestrawberries for a smooth sauce.
§ Extra dressing will keep in the refrigerator forup to one week.
CandiedPecans
· ½ cup Pecans
· 1 Tablespoon Honey
· ½- 1 Tablespoon Granulated Sugar
o Preheat oven to 350 degrees
o Place pecans on a cookie sheet in an even layer.
o Bake for 5 minutes or until toasted.
o Combine warm pecans with honey until they arefully coated.
o Coat with sugar and serve with salad or alone asa snack.
The doggies went for a car ride today too.
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| I made a cupcake sandwich for a snack by placing the icing on the inside of the cupcake. This way every bite had icing and it didn’t get all over my face. WIN WIN 🙂
Dinner is the the slow cooker right now and it smells amazing!! BBQ Pulled Pork! We maybe eating dinner really early tonight!!
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