Tightrope Tossed Salad Recipes

TOP BRASS TOSSED SALAD WITH ITALIAN DRESSING

Steps:

• Through the feed opening of a running blender add, 1 at a time, the vinegar, garlic, oregano, thyme, parsley, salt, and pepper. Then, leaving the blender running, gradually add the olive oil in a thin stream. Season, to taste, with salt and pepper.
• Gently toss together the greens, tomatoes, cucumbers, and carrots with enough of the dressing to coat. Serve family style with the remaining salad dressing on the side.

SPANIKOPITA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 480 degrees F.
• Heat a large saute pan over medium heat. Add olive oil and heat. Add garlic, shallot and mushrooms and cook for 4 minutes. Add spinach and cook until spinach is very tender, roughly 6 minutes. Fold in the goat cheese, season with salt, to taste, and let cool. Lay out phyllo dough, butter liberally and fold into fourths. Butter again.
• Divide mushroom and spinach mix into 4 equal parts on the phyllo. Fold into triangles buttering between each fold. Bake for 8 minutes or until golden brown.

ALLIUM TOSSED SALAD "EMILE"

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Slice the root end off the entire head of garlic and the shallots, and turn them upside down, wrapping them in aluminum foil and molding the foil so it supports them to allow the cut ends to stand upright in the oven. Pour olive oil on the garlic and shallots so it slips between the skin and the cloves and wrap with the foil so it is enclosed. Roast for about 1 hour and set aside until they are cool enough to handle.
• Gently squeeze the roasted garlic cloves and shallots from the skins onto a small plate. Through the feed opening of a running blender add, 1 at a time, rice vinegar, mustard, thyme, salt, pepper, roasted garlic cloves and roasted shallots. Then, leaving the blender running, add the olive oil in a slow stream. Taste the dressing and add salt and pepper, as needed.
• In a mixing bowl, toss the greens with the onion, scallions, and cucumber. Fold in the tomatoes. Transfer to serving dish and top with avocado wedges, garlic stuffed-olives, and hard boiled eggs.

TIGHTROPE TOSSED SALAD

Steps:

• Through the feed opening of a running blender add, 1 at a time, the vinegar, shallot, chives, salt and pepper. Leaving the blender running, add the oil in a slow thin stream to allow to emulsify. Taste and adjust seasoning with salt and pepper. Serve over salad greens and vegetables.