*also seen on Cafe Zupas Blog
It’s been a while my friends! My house has had plague after plague in the last 3 weeks and it seems to still be going strong. It started with the kids and spread to my husband and I. I’ve gone from a Cold to Pink eye to a Sinus infection. It’s been fun let me tell you. But I couldn’t stay away any longer. It’s been way too long since I shared a recipe! So here I am in my PJ’s and kleenex in hand typing away between coughing and sneezes.
I just had to share this delicious salad with you. I had it at a church function a few weeks ago and I’ve made it many times since. I’m not usually a ‘sweet’ salad kind of girl. I love my ranch dressing, but this salad is amazing. Did I mention how amazing this salad is? Well, I’m not lying. And it’s easy too. I dressed it up a bit adding some shredded rotisserie chicken so I could eat it for lunch and feel full and satisfied. Delicious! You have to try it, because if you’ve never had it, you have been missing out on something truly special!
Here’s what you need:
fresh spinach leaves
fresh romaine leaves
fresh strawberries, cut up
a granny smith apple, cut up
mandarin oranges
dried cranberries
toasted almonds
a bit of shredded rotisserie chicken
poppyseed dressing (I like Briannas brand)
Just mix it all together and you’ve got one fantastic salad! Hope you guys enjoy it and have a wonderful week!
That’s a delicious looking salad. Great picture.
This salad would probably be one of the things I’d want to eat on my last day on earth. (I love salads with tons of fruit in them.)
Wow. I’ll bet that salad is…amazing! I love sweet salads. I have a great poppy seed dressing from my former R.S. president that would be perfect with this!
Ahhh, I feel for you, my WHOLE house has been sick for 2 1/2 weeks. I am sooooo over it.
Love the salad. Feel better soon!
sounds so good!
and i was just sick too and i couldn’t stay out of the kitchen…except, one night, when it was boxed Velveeta mac and cheese
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Fruit salads like this are my favorite!
So sorry you’ve been sick! We’re just getting over all the bugs at our house. This salad looks simply fabulous!!
Ooo, I LOVE sweet salads, and this one looks amazing! I’ve been thinking about buying poppy seed dressing, so I might have to just go and do it now, haha. I hope you feel better soon.
(I absolutely love your blog btw. I stumbled across it a couple weeks ago and have had a lot of fun looking over some of your older posts/recipes. So thanks!)
This salad looks delicious! I hope you and your family are on the mend and back to 100% soon!
Looks delicious. LOVE salads. It is so colorful and pretty. I especially like all the fruit in it. Poppyseed dressing is one of my favorites!!
I love a good salad that has a different feel every now and again. I would so devour this one.
Sounds like the cold bug has moved into your home permanently. I feel for ya! I do, I know what that’s like.
Hi Stephanie!!! I agree with you that this salad is GREAT! I’ve been making the same salad for a few years. I got the idea off of a recipe that called for poppy seed dressing, romaine lettuce, cut up chicken, mandrine oranges, and Chineese Noodles. The way I make it is with the all same ingredients as you used, (though I rarley put chicken in) but I also add red grapes cut in half, and kiwi sliced, then cut in fourths. (When I make it without the chicken, I don’t add the Chineese Noodles, I only use the almonds.) I also agree with you that Briannas brand is the best tasting poppy seed dressing!
I do hope you feel up to par soon! Take care, Jodie
That is a beautiful picture. I love the bright colors! Fruity salads are the best. I like the fruit combination you used. Hope you and your family are feeling better soon.
Great looking salad! I love fruit in my salads. I hope everyone is well!
I want to tell you that I love your site. I found it, well, I don’t remember how. I’m just glad I did. Then my computer died and I lost all my bookmarks. When I began the task of trying to re-bookmark my favorite sites, I couldn’t remember the name of your site. But somehow I found my way to it again. whew! Thank goodness. Oh by the way the teacher in me says that when you write …”my husband and I,” you should use “me” at the end of the sentence. If you took out the reference to your husband you would never write ..”spread to I” even though it was pink eye. Hehe, I couldn’t resist that one. Please feel better and keep up the good work. Charity Never Faileth
Sound great, look great, can’t wait to try.
These kinds of salads are my favorite!!! =)
I really like this salad!! It has yummie flavours & thet are all combined together! MMMM…
This was so delicous!!! I have a few kids that are anti-fruit eaters. So we turned it into a salad bar. It was really fun and the kids had a great time creating their own personal salad. A little trick we do with our poppy seed dressing is add 2 parts poppy seed dressing to one part blush wine vinaigrette. It give the poppy seed a little zing! They are both the Briannas brand.
I was blog stalking and came across yours website. I am loving it might I add! I have one question though, I tried the chocolate bowls and had a problem. I did everything you said and when it came time to pop them the top half of the balloon came out and the bottom half stuck to the chocolate? HELP!! I think it is a fun idea and they were fun to make but it would be better if we could eat them… Thanks
Tricia
Thanks for the great recipe. I’m not a good salad maker without someone’s recipe. I couldn’t find Brianna’s poppyseed dressing at the grocery store(lame)so I tried it with 1000 Island. It was nummy. Also, Costco had some sweet glazed chicken niblets on sale so I used those instead of the rotisserie chicken. It was delicious!
I love your site and check it all the time for delicious recipes. Thanks!
My husband calls this relief society food. He doesn’t like fruit in salad. I think it’s SOOOO good!
Heather– if you can’t find Brianna’s at the store, you can try my version of it at:
http://greenjelloland.blogspot.com/2010/01/sweet-poppy-seed-dressing.html
It’s close enough to please the Brianna’s lovers at my home.