Autumn Salad

OK, so I do like salads ok, but this one is simply the bomb in my book. You can find the salad dressing as a low fat alternative - which is cool since I love this dressing and I normally hate lowfat anything! I also think this salad is great to serve with at a Fall gathering accompanying Brunswick Stew and an Apple Cheese Ball with Crackers. If you aren't afraid to Apple-It-Up, have a Dried Apple Stack Cake (with molasses or without) for dessert! Click links above for recipes.

Toss together your Autumn Salad using any combination of the below ingredients. And remember, this is YOUR salad, so make it how YOU like it!

• Baby Spinach or Romaine (play with it)
• Cheese options
• feta
• bleu cheese
• gorgonzola
• Fruit options
• diced crisp apple or diced pear. I like honey crisp, pink lady and braeburn apples.
• Additions – Raisins, dried cranberries or dried cherries (I prefer cranberries as others seem too sweet to me)
• Onions – Red preferred, but white or yellow work – or even spring/green onions
• Nuts – Walnut or pecan (I don’t like nuts, so I do not rush out to buy them...)
• Optional – Cucumbers, squash, zucchini, carrots
• Dressing – Any raspberry walnut vinaigrette – seriously. Nothing else tastes as good with this salad. I prefer Ken's Steakhouse version.  I will try to make my own at some point.
  
  And remember this ~ if you toss the salad in a large salad bowl with the drssing, you will probably use LESS dressing than if you just poured it on in your dawg-bowl of salad. That equals fewer calories!