One Friday night, about a month ago, my cell phone began pinging furiously with text messages from my mom and four sisters. Our last mass text convo was when my brother sent out a group email to all his sisters with the subject “Mom passed.” He was referring to her driver’s licence renewal test, not her life. He immediately heard from all his sisters.
This text chat was much less controversial. Apparently my daughter brought an apple salad to a family dinner that I wasn’t able to attend. They all raved about it, assumed I had given her the recipe and wanted me to forward it to them. I couldn’t take credit for this salad. My daughter got the recipe from Ingrid Beer’s blog, thecozyapron.
Ingrid used frisée lettuce, arugula, honeycrisp apples and candied walnuts in her recipe. My adaptation kept the arugula and apples but I added spiced pecans and pistachios, radicchio, Belgian endive and pomegranate seeds. I mixed in some Gruyere cheese because I think that apples and Gruyere are a match made in heaven.
Feel free to make the salad your own. Goat cheese would be great. Pears would be a nice change from the apples. I did not change anything in the dressing. It is perfect exactly as created by Ingrid. It has become my new house dressing.
You’ll be hooked from the first forkful!
Click here to print recipe for Arugula Apple Salad with Spiced Cider Vinaigrette.
I’m always looking for a new and interesting salad dressings. I have two questions – can you add olive oil instead and how long would this keep in the fridge? I think we’ll eat the pecans before they make it to the salad! Photos are so pretty!
Thanks Linda. You could use olive oil, but i think it would overpower the delicate flavour of the apple cider vinegar. You really want the apple cider vinegar to be the star in this dressing. It should keep in the fridge for about 2 weeks. The recipe makes a huge batch of nuts, so there are lots left over for snacking!!