I wanted to share with you a quick and delicious recipe I made for Robyn's blog that is not only perfect right now, but would be great for your Thanksgiving day. This fall salad uses a special apple mustard, fresh apples, baby greens, Gorgonzola and pecans. What's not to like?
Of course you can mix the salad in a bowl, but for the sake of presentation I decided to layer the ingredients and to fan out the different kinds of apples and red onions. What do you think?
Another recipe I was making for Robyn last weekend was a Vanilla Angel Food cake. This was the fist time I've made an angel cake. The process was rather easy: the most time consuming part was separating 12 eggs and whipping the egg whites.
I had 12 egg yolks at my disposal and did not feel like making creme brulee, custards, mayonnaise or lemon curd. I tweeted about my dilemma and got a few suggestions to make ice cream. Alas, my kitchen doesn't have an ice cream maker. And so I decided to offer the egg yolks to Stacey Viera. She was one of my twitter friends to suggest I make ice cream and she lives nearby. Last Sunday night Stacey's husband (whom I've never met!) drove by my apartment and I handed over a bowl with the egg yolks. I can't even imagine what my neighbors thought. But at least nothing went to waste!
Above is the cake with yogurt and berries. And I can't wait to taste the ice cream Stacey makes with the egg yolks: she promised to share. Oh the magic of Twitter.
You just photographed my all-time favorite kind of salad. The combination of apples, onions, mustard, and nuts gets me every single time.
ReplyDeleteYour salad looks absolutely amazing. I want to go make it right now and I just ate a snack lol. I am a new follower of your blog!
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Those both look wonderful! Yes, I think your salad presentation was a great call.
ReplyDelete(I probably would have made hollandaise or mayo with the egg yolks. :-)
that is one beautiful salad!
ReplyDeleteThe salad looks fantastic and the angel food cake looks even better. Even though she describes the vanilla puree, I still have never heard of it/seen it. Huh.
ReplyDeleteThat salad looks absolutely delicious although mmm, not sure what to choose if I had to pick either the salad or the angelcake! Great idea to hand over all those egg yolks! Would be a shame to throw them away!
ReplyDeleteAfter eating that yummy and virtuous salad, i wouldnt mind rewarding myself with that delicious cake :)
ReplyDeleteGood luck on winning the le crueset daaaahling!
*kisses* HH
The salad looks scrumptious! I'm often faced with a lot of leftover egg yolks from making macarons. Always make ice cream or lemon curd, although sometimes I do throw them out. Hope you win that gorgeous purple le creuset pot!
ReplyDeleteLove the combo of ingredients on this salad...sounds sooo good!!
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