After making our Christmas Trees that we decorated with fruit and cereal (more pictures to follow soon), we made a Red and Green Salad. Spinach and Strawberry Salad that is. I picked this salad simply for two reasons. The beautiful colors of the season and the high nutritional content. It’s great to serve some back-to-basic side dishes during the holidays. Almost 100% of the kids tried the spinach salad. Over 75% of kids said they liked it, not to mention the ones that cleaned their plates clean – left no spinach salad for mom or dad to try!
This Week’s Recipe: Spinach
& Strawberry Salad
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2 bags baby spinach
2 bags baby spinach
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1 pint strawberries,
sliced
1 pint strawberries,
sliced
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½ cup slivered almonds
or walnuts, optional
½ cup slivered almonds
or walnuts, optional
Dressing: (all of these ingredients keep for a long
time in your pantry)
time in your pantry)
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¼ cup olive oil
¼ cup olive oil
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2 tbsp red wine vinegar
2 tbsp red wine vinegar
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½ tsp dill weed
½ tsp dill weed
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1 ½ tbsp sugar
1 ½ tbsp sugar
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½ tsp salt, pepper,
garlic powder, onion powder, and dry mustard
½ tsp salt, pepper,
garlic powder, onion powder, and dry mustard
DIRECTIONS
1.
For children, have kids
cut the spinach leaves to make bite size pieces with kid-safe kitchen scissors.
For children, have kids
cut the spinach leaves to make bite size pieces with kid-safe kitchen scissors.
2.
Slice strawberries with
plastic lettuce knife
Slice strawberries with
plastic lettuce knife
3.
Mix all dressing
ingredients together with whisk.
Mix all dressing
ingredients together with whisk.
4.
Add dressing to salad
based on taste. Remember, a little goes a long way.
Add dressing to salad
based on taste. Remember, a little goes a long way.
One Nutrition Fact about Spinach!
1 cup = 7 calories and almost 50% daily value of Vitamin A
Now, that’s what I call a Nutrient Dense Food!
KIDS KITCHEN KONNECTION: Chopping or cutting their own spinach, slicing strawberries, and topping it with a yummy salad dressing that they helped make, encouraged the kids to try and eat the salad. It was successful!