The colors of Christmas
with bright red strawberries, golden-yellow honeydew and bright
green spinach makes this a great holiday salad.
Christmas
Spinach Salad
- 12 cups chopped spinach,
rinsed and trimmed
2 cups strawberries, hulled and sliced
2 cups diced honeydew melons (see note)
2/3 cup chopped pecans
2/3 cup thinly sliced Gouda cheese
1/4 cup lime juice
1/4 cup honey
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 teaspoon grated fresh gingerroot
- In a serving bowl combine
spinach, strawberries, honeydew melon, pecans, Gouda cheese;
toss to mix evenly.
- Combine lime juice, honey,
oil and gingerroot into a shaker bottle; shake well and drizzle
over the spinach salad.
Makes 12 servings.
Note: Melons, squash, and
cucumbers -- all of which ripen while lying on the ground - can
be exposed to salmonella and e. coli bacteria. As a precaution,
they should be washed with soap and hot water, then rinsed before
proceeding with any recipe. This applies even if you are only
using the flesh of the melon (or squash or cucumber); the mere
act of cutting through the rind is enough to bring harmful bacteria
in contact with the flesh.
