FRUITY SUMMER SALAD

Here's an idea for a cooling, slightly sweet salad you can whip up in a hurry. It can be used as a side dish or of course, a light entrée along with some artisan bread or crackers. The recipe below is for 4 side salads or 2 entrée salads.

*One bag salad greens (I like to use mixed baby lettuces, or maybe you would like to use half lettuce and half spinach.)
*1 small can mandarin orange slices or fresh mandarins or tangerines (about a half a fresh tangerine per serving)
*A quarter cup fresh ripe strawberries and/or whole fresh raspberries (washed and dried.)
*A sprinkling of dried cranberries or dried cherries
*A sprinkling of nuts (chopped toasted walnuts, sliced almonds, or candied pecans - or a mixture of them.)
*A sprinkling of crumbled goat cheese (You may prefer blue cheese or feta.)

Serve with raspberry vinaigrette or perhaps, if you're using the canned mandarins, a mixture of reserved juice of mandarins vigorously whipped with light veggie mayonnaise until smooth. Or maybe just a light sprinkling of mild balsamic vinegar or rice vinegar.

Experiment and make it your own - Yummmmm!

 

Serves 4 - 6.