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Strawberries, Spinach, and Cupcakes

20 January, 2012 by Sloane Leave a Comment

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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!!!     



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.

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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