This here is MI Kinda Salad. Well it’s really called a Michigan Salad, but MI works for me. This salad is loaded with apples, cherries, blue cheese and has Michigan Honey is in the dressing. I personally love this salad and recreate it at home as often as I can, although I have never tried to make the dressing so I’m hoping I get it right.
Ingredients
- 3 Teaspoons Honey
- 1/4 Cup Red Wine Vinegar
- 1/2 cup Oil
- 3 Tablespoons Lemon Juice
- Salt and Pepper to Taste
For the salad, I just used a big bag of greens, like a spring mix with spinach.
I grabbed some cherries, some blue cheese and some sunflower seeds.
I thinly slice an apple.
Mixed it all together and added the dressing.
The salad was perfect, the dressing needs a little work, the vinegar was just too strong for my taste. So next time I am going to try a different recipe for the dressing, and hopefully I will have a fresh bag of Michigan cherries and will recreate the perfect Michigan Salad.
Question of the Day: Do you make your own dressing or do you buy yours?
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Looks luscious (cherries – so good)! Makes me wonder if Oklahoma has a salad…maybe I need to create one?!
you do need to! I see an OK salad in your future.
I started making my own vinaigrette dressings about six months ago (around when I started cooking more) and they taste so much better than most bottled varieties. Many bottled dressings have a chemical or stale taste to me. My favorite is made with white balsamic vinegar, dijon mustard, and flaxseed oil. I just got some orange muscat champagne vinegar from Trader Joe’s and plan to make a dressing with that using a recipe I found on another blog. It has sesame oil, sesame seeds, etc., in it. If you want, I’ll find the link to the recipe for you.
oh that sounds delish, probably not as overpowering as red wine vinegar
Agreed! Experiment, and don’t be afraid to adjust the ratios to your own tastes.