I’m Working on a Recipe for Spinach Salad with Blue Cheese Crumbles, Whole Almonds, Fresh Chicken, White Onions, Tomatoes, and Drizzled with a Cinnamon Pear Balsamic Vinaigrette

We’re working on dinner salad recipes tonight and my dish of choice was a spinach salad with blue cheese crumbles, whole almonds, fresh chicken, white onions, tomatoes, and drizzled with a cinnamon pear balsamic vinaigrette.  It’s not perfect but it is a very good starting point.  One option is to take it more in a harvest salad direction, introducing freshly cut apples and pears instead of tomatoes and onions.  Another is to add a bit of lemon juice to the chicken to sharpen the flavor profile.  

This is worthy of more research to make it on the permanent home menu.  We need a standard set of 4 to 7 salads that can be prepared on demand for guests and events that have been tested, retested, and can be reproduced consistently.  And I still need to find the perfect steak reduction sauce …

Spinach salad with blue cheese crumbles, whole almonds, fresh chicken, white onions, tomatoes, and drizzled with a cinnamon pear balsamic vinaigrette ...

In any event, it was very satisfying with a glass of cold water.  For dessert, I’d like fresh tea with nothing in it, incredibly clean.  Or maybe a banana caramel dish of some sort.  

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