This Apple Candied Walnuts and Blue Cheese Salad with Honey Apple Dressing is filled with fall flavours, sweet and crunchy!
Do you want to know the best part about apples? You can put them in pretty much anything; salads , smoothies , pancakes , pretty much anything. Apples take ordinary recipes and turn them into delicious, flavourful, sweet and crunchy beautiful creations. This salad? No exception. By the time you’re finished with this post, you’re going to want to make this right away.
The Mr. and I are settling into our lives as a married couple, and we have found out something very, very crucial to a happy marriage: a well stocked fridge. I realised that learning to stock a fridge is no easy task, but once you’ve gotten it right (albeit two months into the process) your life has been changed forever. We’ve gone from “cheese is done AGAIN?!” to “wow, four different types of cheese, WHICH shall I use?!”
Food may be the most important thing on our life list.
What a stocked fridge revealed to me other than happy life, happy wife, was that when you accidentally go crazy and pick up 2 dozen apples for TWO people, you find many, many ways to use them. You eat them whole, you slice them up and eat them, you caramelise them (lots, and lots of caramelising them), you add them to tons of hors d’oeuvres and eat them while binge watching Netflix…the list goes on.
Did I mention LOTS of caramelising them?
The last time I made an apple salad , it seemed to be really popular among everyone, so I thought, why fix what ain’t broke?
So, I recreated my favourite apple salad and present the recreation to you here. I mean, who can resist the mixture of apples, candied walnuts, dried cranberries, and my favourite, tart, beautiful blue cheese?! If that wasn’t already magical enough, pour a honey-apple salad dressing all over it and push it in front of someone. Actually, push it in front of me, I promise you won’t have to twist my arm for me to eat it in one go.
What do I love the most about this salad? It’s good for you AND delicious. Cue less than 15 minutes, FULL of flavour, very filling, easy to stuff dow-…to eat peacefully with a fork (ahem) and full of fresh delicious ingredients. You can have this salad as a side and split it or as a main, whichever your heart desires.
As an ode to the Mr. on his birthday (Happy Birthday My Amazing Husband!) I have to mention that he was the genius behind the apple salad dressing. He’s a pro at anything sauces and dressings (okay okay, and everything cooking) and this is the perfect combination of sweet and tangy that’ll complement the salad perfectly. He’s also the reason behind my complete love of brine-y ingredients such as blue cheese and finding perfect complementary ingredients. On that note, you could easily use feta cheese as it adds that perfect tang flavour if you want, or both (I won’t tell).
Feel free to enjoy this salad before it’s actually fall and remember, it’s totally okay to add some of that extra blue cheese on top. Yes, I can read your mind.
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This Apple Candied Walnuts and Blue Cheese Salad with Honey Apple Dressing is filled with fall flavours, sweet and crunchy!
Do you want to know the best part about apples? You can put them in pretty much anything; salads , smoothies , pancakes , pretty much anything. Apples take ordinary recipes and turn them into delicious, flavourful, sweet and crunchy beautiful creations. This salad? No exception. By the time you’re finished with this post, you’re going to want to make this right away.
The Mr. and I are settling into our lives as a married couple, and we have found out something very, very crucial to a happy marriage: a well stocked fridge. I realised that learning to stock a fridge is no easy task, but once you’ve gotten it right (albeit two months into the process) your life has been changed forever. We’ve gone from “cheese is done AGAIN?!” to “wow, four different types of cheese, WHICH shall I use?!”
Food may be the most important thing on our life list.
What a stocked fridge revealed to me other than happy life, happy wife, was that when you accidentally go crazy and pick up 2 dozen apples for TWO people, you find many, many ways to use them. You eat them whole, you slice them up and eat them, you caramelise them (lots, and lots of caramelising them), you add them to tons of hors d’oeuvres and eat them while binge watching Netflix…the list goes on.
Did I mention LOTS of caramelising them?
The last time I made an apple salad , it seemed to be really popular among everyone, so I thought, why fix what ain’t broke?
So, I recreated my favourite apple salad and present the recreation to you here. I mean, who can resist the mixture of apples, candied walnuts, dried cranberries, and my favourite, tart, beautiful blue cheese?! If that wasn’t already magical enough, pour a honey-apple salad dressing all over it and push it in front of someone. Actually, push it in front of me, I promise you won’t have to twist my arm for me to eat it in one go.
What do I love the most about this salad? It’s good for you AND delicious. Cue less than 15 minutes, FULL of flavour, very filling, easy to stuff dow-…to eat peacefully with a fork (ahem) and full of fresh delicious ingredients. You can have this salad as a side and split it or as a main, whichever your heart desires.
As an ode to the Mr. on his birthday (Happy Birthday My Amazing Husband!) I have to mention that he was the genius behind the apple salad dressing. He’s a pro at anything sauces and dressings (okay okay, and everything cooking) and this is the perfect combination of sweet and tangy that’ll complement the salad perfectly. He’s also the reason behind my complete love of brine-y ingredients such as blue cheese and finding perfect complementary ingredients. On that note, you could easily use feta cheese as it adds that perfect tang flavour if you want, or both (I won’t tell).
Feel free to enjoy this salad before it’s actually fall and remember, it’s totally okay to add some of that extra blue cheese on top. Yes, I can read your mind.
RELATED RECIPES
This Apple Candied Walnuts and Blue Cheese Salad with Honey Apple Dressing is filled with fall flavours, sweet and crunchy!
Do you want to know the best part about apples? You can put them in pretty much anything; salads , smoothies , pancakes , pretty much anything. Apples take ordinary recipes and turn them into delicious, flavourful, sweet and crunchy beautiful creations. This salad? No exception. By the time you’re finished with this post, you’re going to want to make this right away.
The Mr. and I are settling into our lives as a married couple, and we have found out something very, very crucial to a happy marriage: a well stocked fridge. I realised that learning to stock a fridge is no easy task, but once you’ve gotten it right (albeit two months into the process) your life has been changed forever. We’ve gone from “cheese is done AGAIN?!” to “wow, four different types of cheese, WHICH shall I use?!”
Food may be the most important thing on our life list.
What a stocked fridge revealed to me other than happy life, happy wife, was that when you accidentally go crazy and pick up 2 dozen apples for TWO people, you find many, many ways to use them. You eat them whole, you slice them up and eat them, you caramelise them (lots, and lots of caramelising them), you add them to tons of hors d’oeuvres and eat them while binge watching Netflix…the list goes on.
Did I mention LOTS of caramelising them?
The last time I made an apple salad , it seemed to be really popular among everyone, so I thought, why fix what ain’t broke?
So, I recreated my favourite apple salad and present the recreation to you here. I mean, who can resist the mixture of apples, candied walnuts, dried cranberries, and my favourite, tart, beautiful blue cheese?! If that wasn’t already magical enough, pour a honey-apple salad dressing all over it and push it in front of someone. Actually, push it in front of me, I promise you won’t have to twist my arm for me to eat it in one go.
What do I love the most about this salad? It’s good for you AND delicious. Cue less than 15 minutes, FULL of flavour, very filling, easy to stuff dow-…to eat peacefully with a fork (ahem) and full of fresh delicious ingredients. You can have this salad as a side and split it or as a main, whichever your heart desires.
As an ode to the Mr. on his birthday (Happy Birthday My Amazing Husband!) I have to mention that he was the genius behind the apple salad dressing. He’s a pro at anything sauces and dressings (okay okay, and everything cooking) and this is the perfect combination of sweet and tangy that’ll complement the salad perfectly. He’s also the reason behind my complete love of brine-y ingredients such as blue cheese and finding perfect complementary ingredients. On that note, you could easily use feta cheese as it adds that perfect tang flavour if you want, or both (I won’t tell).
Feel free to enjoy this salad before it’s actually fall and remember, it’s totally okay to add some of that extra blue cheese on top. Yes, I can read your mind.
RELATED RECIPES
This Apple Candied Walnuts and Blue Cheese Salad with Honey Apple Dressing is filled with fall flavours, sweet and crunchy!
Do you want to know the best part about apples? You can put them in pretty much anything; salads , smoothies , pancakes , pretty much anything. Apples take ordinary recipes and turn them into delicious, flavourful, sweet and crunchy beautiful creations. This salad? No exception. By the time you’re finished with this post, you’re going to want to make this right away.
The Mr. and I are settling into our lives as a married couple, and we have found out something very, very crucial to a happy marriage: a well stocked fridge. I realised that learning to stock a fridge is no easy task, but once you’ve gotten it right (albeit two months into the process) your life has been changed forever. We’ve gone from “cheese is done AGAIN?!” to “wow, four different types of cheese, WHICH shall I use?!”
Food may be the most important thing on our life list.
What a stocked fridge revealed to me other than happy life, happy wife, was that when you accidentally go crazy and pick up 2 dozen apples for TWO people, you find many, many ways to use them. You eat them whole, you slice them up and eat them, you caramelise them (lots, and lots of caramelising them), you add them to tons of hors d’oeuvres and eat them while binge watching Netflix…the list goes on.
Did I mention LOTS of caramelising them?
The last time I made an apple salad , it seemed to be really popular among everyone, so I thought, why fix what ain’t broke?
So, I recreated my favourite apple salad and present the recreation to you here. I mean, who can resist the mixture of apples, candied walnuts, dried cranberries, and my favourite, tart, beautiful blue cheese?! If that wasn’t already magical enough, pour a honey-apple salad dressing all over it and push it in front of someone. Actually, push it in front of me, I promise you won’t have to twist my arm for me to eat it in one go.
What do I love the most about this salad? It’s good for you AND delicious. Cue less than 15 minutes, FULL of flavour, very filling, easy to stuff dow-…to eat peacefully with a fork (ahem) and full of fresh delicious ingredients. You can have this salad as a side and split it or as a main, whichever your heart desires.
As an ode to the Mr. on his birthday (Happy Birthday My Amazing Husband!) I have to mention that he was the genius behind the apple salad dressing. He’s a pro at anything sauces and dressings (okay okay, and everything cooking) and this is the perfect combination of sweet and tangy that’ll complement the salad perfectly. He’s also the reason behind my complete love of brine-y ingredients such as blue cheese and finding perfect complementary ingredients. On that note, you could easily use feta cheese as it adds that perfect tang flavour if you want, or both (I won’t tell).
Feel free to enjoy this salad before it’s actually fall and remember, it’s totally okay to add some of that extra blue cheese on top. Yes, I can read your mind.
RELATED RECIPES
Apple Candied Walnuts and Blue Cheese Salad with Honey Apple Dressing
Ingredients
- 3 cups mixed salad greens de-stemmed, washed and torn
- 1 apple sliced thinly
- 2 tablespoons dried cranberries
- 2 tablespoons candied walnuts
- 3 tablespoons blue cheese crumbled3 tablespoons blue cheese, crumbled
Honey-Apple Vinaigrette Dressing:
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
Instructions
Salad
- In a bowl, place the salad greens. Add the apples, cranberries, walnuts and blue cheese on top - if you’d like, toss them in a bowl first then sprinkle on top.
Honey-Apple Vinaigrette Dressing
- Whisk the ingredients together and pour over the salad. You probably won’t use all the dressing.
- Enjoy!
Nutrition
Apple Candied Walnuts and Blue Cheese Salad with Honey Apple Dressing https://jessicainthekitchen.com/apple-salad-recipe-with-honey-apple-dressing/ September 16, 2015
Hello out there & Happy New Year! To say it’s been a while would be an understatement. I got married earlier this year, then came back afterwards to start blogging again…then disappeared completely. The last few months have been very interesting for me because in August I fell sick…and well, never fully recovered. I’ve had a series of hospitalisations, faintings, unbearable amounts of pain, endless (I mean ENDLESS) amounts of medication and lots and lots of bed rest. We are still trying to figure out what’s completely wrong but I’m happy to say that I’ve gone from 10% a day to about 70%, and I’m so ready to start back blogging. I spent a long time comparing myself to other bloggers and their constant consistency, but I realised that that definitely wasn’t making me any better nor was it mentally healthy for me.
I’m pretty sure the Christmas season definitely added some magic. It’s been a challenging time, and SERIOUSLY, I have the best husband who has been unwavered throughout the last few months and always by my side no matter the numerous doctor visits, medical procedures, endless crying on my part or anything else that was thrown his way. My family has been 100% supportive and I really have had the BEST set of friends who have always been there for me. I also want to thank everyone who noticed my absence and offered me kind words of care, and in particular my blogger friend Zainab who despite just becoming a first time mom and having other full time responsibilities, checked in on me numerous times!!
Despite this, I said no matter what I am going to enjoy this holiday season, and I planned for this to be a Very Special Christmas! It’s was our first Christmas as a married couple (whaaaat!) and I gathered the energy to decorate our home for the holiday season, which means every morning I wake up is a happy morning! I haven’t been able to bake anything but I am determined to do so before the season is over. I can’t promise I will be able to post it, but I’ll eat enough for all of us! Hmm, maybe not the best idea…
I planned this update post because I thought you, my readers, deserved to know where on earth I’ve disappeared off to, and to know that I am waiting for the day I get to hop back on and share another fun recipe with you. I also posted it to remind us all to think of others this seasons, because we are all going through secret burdens that no one knows about. I’ve kept a front to most people except my closest friends – which means smiling through tons of pain! And trying to be my normal over-giddy hyperactive self – but I’m trying to view this as a life lesson to learn from, in whatever way I can, and just accept it and just be. I realised that I wouldn’t allow myself to just rest, which only made things worse, and so I’m trying to accept that.
Do you know what I also realised? I haven’t shared any of our wedding pictures with you! What?! Today will make 6 months since we’ve been married! So to make up for the last few months, here’s some of our favourite wedding pictures. I also can’t wait to show you our home hopefully later on when I pick back up my camera . See you very soon!
