Celebrate summer by enjoying a combination of fruits and a variety of cheese over salad greens topped with a honey vinaigrette. I have a feeling the summer heat will be bearable with this refreshing salad courtesy of National Board of Honey.
Ingredients
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
1/2 cup olive oil
2 tablespoons orange juice
1 tablespoon poppy seeds
3/4 pound seedless grapes
3/4 pound fresh figs, apricots, plums or nectarines, sliced
4 ounces camembert or brie cheese, cut into narrow wedges
1/2 cup pecan halves, toasted
2 quarts salad greens
Directions
Combine honey, vinegar, oil, orange juice and poppy seeds in a jar. Shake well. Arrange clusters of grapes, …read more

Instead of using the store bought salad dressings that I have in the fridge, I usually try to create my own vinaigrette. After making a red wine vinegar vinaigrette for the leftover flank steak on top of a bed of organic salad, I decided to create this honey-spicy mustard vinaigrette the next day.
Bear in mind that the measurements I’m posting below are just my estimates. I am an "eyeballer" kind of cook.
INGREDIENTS : double the ingredients if you’re making for more than 2 bowls of salad.

1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil

4 tbsp spicy brown mustard

3 tbsp honey

juice …read more

The perfect accompaniment to all of those tomatoes…