Green Salad with Apples and Apple Dijon Dressing

Best. Dressing. Ever!

This was good...so good, in fact, that my daughter insisted on cutting up a second apple to dip in the dressing and eat for dessert.  No lie!

Adapted from this recipe on The Sisters Cafe, we changed it up to suit what we had in the fridge, and it was AWESOME!

GREEN SALAD WITH APPLES AND APPLE DIJON DRESSING

For Salad:

• 1 - 2 heads romaine lettuce, in bite-sized pieces
• 1 bunch kale, chopped
• 1 handful fresh spinach
• 1 apple (we used a Fuji), in bite-sized slices
• 1/2 red onion, sliced thin
• 1/2 - 1 cup toasted pecans

For Dressing:

• 2 Tblsps. olive oil
• 1 1/2 Tblsps. apple cider vinegar
• 1 Tblsp. grainy Dijon mustard
• 1 Tblsp. sugar
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/4 tsp. ground pepper

Toss all your salad ingredients in a bowl until well distributed.

Pour all dressing ingredients into a jar and shake until completely mixed.  Pour over salad and toss, toss, toss.  And then eat.  And then, eat seconds!

Greek Salad for lunch!

Nobody's missing the feta!

So...we're doing the whole Hormone Diet induction phase again, which means no sugar, wheat, pork, beef, citrus, dairy...basically anything I REALLY love. :(

It's making eating really challenging, that and the fact that you have to consume protein at every meal whether you want to or not. And LOT of veggies.

So lunch wound up being some salad shrimp with cocktail sauce (meh), and this salad.

Because I had already eaten my protein, and because I'm not allowed dairy right now (wah!) I had to leave out the feta cheese, but it was full of peppers, cucumber, tomato and black olives (I wound up having to use green onions instead of red, but that worked out fine).

GREEK SALAD DRESSING

• 1/4 cup oil
• 3/4 tsp garlic powder
• 3/4 tsp dried oregano
• 3/4 tsp dried basil
• 3/4 tsp pepper
• 3/4 tsp salt
• 3/4 tsp onion powder
• 3/4 tsp dijon mustard
• 1/2 cup red wine vinegar (or more, I like my dressing less oily and more "zippy")

Put all ingredients in a jar and shake it up! Enjoy with your choice of fresh veggies, olives and feta cheese (if you're allowed...sniff...)