Went to the farmer's market today and decided to make a delicious salad with what we found there. At the farmer's market we bought: red onions, spinach, blood oranges, Cara Cara oranges, clover sprouts, bib (or butter) lettuce, Meyer lemons...all for $10. We decided to make a salad from the red onions, blood oranges, and spinach. Later on in the week I will use the Bib Lettuce to set a chicken salad on that will be stuffed in a tomato. Here is the recipe for the salad:
Spinach Salad with Blood Oranges
(Serves 2)
2 bunches fresh leaf spinach (trim stems and break apart larger leaves)
1/2 red onion, sliced
2 blood oranges, sectioned
(click on this link to learn how to section an orange: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9K6tcu3QZ8). Make sure to work over a bowl to catch the juice that will be used in the vinaigrette. Save the peel and membranes. you will squeeze the juice out of these over a strainer set on a bowl to also use in the vinaigrette.
4 oz. Goat Cheese
Toasted sliced almonds
Blood Orange Vinaigrette (see recipe below)
Place the spinach, red onion, and orange sections in a bowl. Pour just enough vinaigrette over the salad to coat it - don't drown it! Divide the salad between to 2 bowls and sprinkle the almonds and 2 oz. of Goat Cheese over each serving. Drizzle a bit more dressing over the salad.
Blood Orange Vinaigrette:
I used the recipe from this website to make my vinaigrette. Make sure you use the blood orange juice saved from sectioning the oranges. The dressing comes out a beautiful pink color and it is delicious!!
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