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Apple Salad for Sunday Dinners

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This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Salad with Apples
biffbourgeois's Testing Notes: Thirschfeld takes care to compose a salad that is both beautiful and flavorful. The sweet and nutty vinaigrette takes seconds to blend together in a blender. The simple salad is packed with...
Thirschfeld takes care to compose a salad that is both beautiful and flavorful. The sweet and nutty vinaigrette takes seconds to blend together in a blender. The simple salad is packed with crunchy apples, carrots, cabbage and celery. Shallot and scallion garnishes give it a little sharpness. Try it at your next Sunday supper.

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thirschfeld's Notes: I could look you right in the face and not remember your name but I can tell you about a dinner I ate or made years ago. I come by the name forgetting honestly from my dad. He can remember...
I could look you right in the face and not remember your name but I can tell you about a dinner I ate or made years ago. I come by the name forgetting honestly from my dad. He can remember numbers and spreadsheets from years past like I remember food. Sometimes though a few gems slip through the cracks. Fortunately things come along that will remind you of a recipe from your past. I remember the first time I saw a chef make a vinaigrette at culinary school and how they emulsified it with a little water in a blender. I made dressings like this for a long time. Eventually I moved on to other styles of dressings and somehow never came back to this way of making them. This year at Christmas I received the Frankie's Spuntino Kitchen cook book from my wife. Great wife, I know, and I am easily the luckiest man in the world. It also shows me how in many ways food52 is a great resource and not just an amazing learning tool. This book would have never passed through my radar without food52 and the piglet contest. In the book they make their dressings the same way and it jarred my memory to days gone by. I created this salad and ate it this morning for breakfast. You laugh but you need to get the light while the light is good when you want to photograph something. I am making it again for Sunday dinner. The Sunday dinner tradition is something we have always done and this fits right in with the whole food theme, roast chicken, lots of veggie sides, and great home made bread that we tend to stick with on Sundays. This will go into the rotation and I doubt this method will slip away again. - thirschfeld

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Serves 4

For the apple cider vinaigrette::

1 tablespoon honey Ask a question about this ingredient

2 tablespoons unfiltered cider vinegar Ask a question about this ingredient

1 tablespoon water Ask a question about this ingredient

1/4 cup toasted walnuts Ask a question about this ingredient

1/4 cup grape seed or canola oil Ask a question about this ingredient

1/16 to 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper, I used an eighth but realize the heat will build as the dressing sits Ask a question about this ingredient

For the salad::

2 celery hearts, very interior leafy parts only Ask a question about this ingredient

2 1/2 cups nappa cabbage shreds Ask a question about this ingredient

4 carrots, medium size, peeled and cut into thick ribbons with the peeled Ask a question about this ingredient

2 fuji apples, washed and cut into thin half moon slices Ask a question about this ingredient

1 shallot, peeled and slices into paper thin rings Ask a question about this ingredient

1/2 cup toasted walnuts Ask a question about this ingredient

1/4 cup green onions, sliced diagonally for garnish Ask a question about this ingredient

sea salt and fresh ground pepper to taste Ask a question about this ingredient

Place all the dressing ingredients into a blender. Season with a pinch of salt and a few grinds of pepper. Blend until emulsified.
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Place the celery, cabbage, apples and carrots into a bowl. Season with salt and pepper and toss to taste with dressing. Garnish with walnuts, shallots green onions and serve.
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19 Comments on Apple Salad for Sunday Dinners

isac added 7 months ago

so simple yet so beautiful

Table9 added about 1 year ago

Nice job! This is beautiful.

thirschfeld added about 1 year ago

thanks Table9

cowgirlculture added about 1 year ago

Can't wait to try the vinaigrette!

MyCommunalTable added about 1 year ago

Great salad. It is true about not remembering names, but remembering the food I ate years ago. I have a habit of asking people what their early food memories are... I am having salad for breakfast.