Fruit and Nut Salad

If you read my taco salad post, you may remember that I used my egg slicer to slice olives.  I have also found that this is the perfect tool for slicing strawberries.  Whether I am making a strawberry dessert or this scrumptious fruit and nut salad, the egg slicer is just the thing for quickly slicing a lot of strawberries.

 

The creamy tartness of feta or blue cheese is a great contrast to the sweetness of the fruit and dressing.  I personally prefer feta over blue cheese and always buy it in a block rather than crumbled.  A block is cheaper per ounce and gives you the option of feta cubes or crumbles.  Also, a block of feta has a longer shelf-life than crumbled feta.  I never use a whole block at one time, so I cut it into smaller portions and freeze them for later use.

To serve this as a side salad, simply omit the chicken.

Fruit and Nut Salad

Choose desired ingredients from the lists below.  Place a bed of greens on each plate.  Add desired toppings.  Drizzle with dressing.  Note:  Ingredients marked with ^* are the ones in the pictured salad.

Greens:

Romaine^*

Spinach

Green leaf lettuce

Red lettuce

Fruit:

Strawberries, sliced^*

Grapes, halved^*

Applies, diced

Kiwi, diced

Mandarin orange slices

Avocado, diced

Raisins

Dried cranberries

Nuts:

Walnuts, chopped^*

Almonds, sliced or slivered

Pecans, chopped

Pine nuts

Meat:

Chicken, chopped^*

Bacon, cooked and chopped

Cheese:

Feta, crumbled^*

Blue cheese, crumbled

Dressing:

Balsamic vinaigrette^*

Raspberry walnut

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