What’s your “new normal” now?
Hate that phrase as much as I do?
My new normal is not so new to me ~ it’s called “make salads great again”.
Ugh ~ I hate myself right now. Enough with the stupid catch phrases.
Here’s a salad recipe that will make you feel okay about eating yet another salad for lunch. You can also serve this at your next non-existent, imaginary dinner party.
SCREW YOU, COVID.

HARVEST SALAD.
Ingredients
in an oven preheated to 400 degrees, roast the following veggies on top of 4 slices of thick-cut bacon…
- 1 delicata squash seeds removed and sliced (no peeling necessary)
- 1 zucchini quartered and sliced
- 1/2 red pepper sliced
meanwhile, whisk together your vinaigrette in the bottom of the salad bowl…
- 1 tbsp stone ground mustard
- 1 tbsp real maple syrup
- 1-2 tbsp rice wine vinegar or any kind of vinegar
- 2 tbsp apple cider
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
then chop and drop the raw ingredients into the bowl…
- spinach
- feta cheese
- dried cranberries
- pepitas raw or candied
- 1 apple diced