astry cutouts and/or Sweet Candied Walnut halves.
Place baby romaine leaves in a salad bowl and top with sliced grapes, candied nuts and crumbled gorgonzola (if making your own candied nuts do this step first so they have a moment to cool).
Whisk together orange juice, lemon juice, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, brown sugar, garlic, basil, dijon mustard, salt and pepper in a small bowl.
Serve dressing with salad.
Place walnuts and sugar in a skillet over medium heat, stirring constantly until the sugar dissolves into a light brown liquid and coats the walnuts. Remove walnuts from skillet, and spread them out on a sheet of aluminum foil to cool.
Place in a large salad bowl the mixed greens, cranberries, cheese, vinaigrette, vinegar, and olive oil. Toss gently; add candied walnuts, and toss again.
Place the walnut halves in a shallow pan; heat in oven at 325\u00b0 for about 10 minutes.
Cook the sugar, water, cinnamon and salt to soft ball stage (236\u00b0) without stirring.
Remove from heat.
Add the vanilla.
Add nuts; stir gently until all nuts are covered and mixture is creamy.
Turn out onto a buttered platter.
Separate nut halves as they cool.
Dressing:
Whisk all dressing ingredients together in a large bowl.
Add onion and cabbages to dressing tossing to coat. Chill one hour to overnight.
Candied Walnuts:
In a heavy bottom pan heat to medium high heat.
Place nuts and butter, when butter is melted and nuts are coated with the butter sprinkle sugar and nutmeg over nuts stirring till carmelized. Toss in salad.
o sub pecans in this recipe or even use pine nuts
Candied orange zest:
Remove the
Put ingredients into a coffee grinder and grind till fine.
Or X`s the recipe and use it for a pie crust!
If so use a food processor.
br>Stir in almonds and candied fruit and peel. Dough will
Mix well the cake mix, eggs, and oil. Stir in chopped candied fruit and the chopped nuts. Drop with 1\" cookie scoop (making walnut-sized balls) onto cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean. DO NOT OVERBAKE. Makes about 40 cookies (or more).
ogether.
Gradually fold in walnut mixture. Scrape into prepared pan
edges. Serve with salsa.
CANDIED MAPLE WALNUTS.
Preheat oven
omatoes, plantain, apple, peach, parsley, candied orange peel, pine nuts, raisins
br>(We prefer a Raspberry Walnut Vinaigrette).
Enjoy!
en minutes but my old recipe was 5 minutes. I think
Preheat oven to 350\u00b0F. Line 2 baking trays with parchment paper.
Combine cornflakes, slivered almonds, raisins and candied cherries in a large bowl. Add condensed milk and stir until all ingredients are well coated. Drop tablespoonfuls of mixture onto prepared trays, flattening slightly. Bake for 10-12 mins, until light golden brown. Let cool completely on trays.
If desired, spread bases of florentines with melted chocolate, making wavy lines with a fork when almost set. Chill in an airtight container for up to 5 days.
Separate Bibb lettuce leaves and place in a bowl. Do not break leaves into smaller pieces.
Scatter peas & carrots and crumbled goat cheese over lettuce leaves. In small bowl, mix together mustard, sherry and balsamic vinegars, salt, and pepper. Whisk in oil and beat until emulsified.
Toss salad with vinaigrette. Sprinkle walnuts on top of salad. Arrange on 4 salad plates.
br>For the chocolate chip & walnut variation, add the chocolate chips
br>You can quadruple this recipe and make as many as
br>Frost with the Chocolate Walnut Buttercream (recipe follows).