Pink Lady Salad

Pink Lady Salad

Ingredients:
2 apples (Pink Lady preferred), peeled
1 fennel bulb
1 bunch watercress, stems trimmed

Directions:
To prepare vinaigrette: Mix together the lemon juice and zest, shallot,
vinegar, and sugar in a small bowl. Whisk in oil and adjust seasoning
with salt and pepper. Set aside.
Apples are in season
during the fall months, just
To prepare salad: Keeping the apple whole, make thin slices until you
as fennel starts to show up.
reach the core. Turn apple to the other side and continue to make thin Serve this as a refreshing
slices until you slice the entire apple. Using a Japanese mandoline accent to lighten up the chill
entering the air.
helps to make thin, uniform slices. Make stacks of 4 to 5 slices and
cut into matchstick-size batons. Slice fennel bulb in the same manner,
thinly and then into matchsticks.
Place watercress in large bowl and top with apple and fennel. Sprinkle
with salt and pepper and then drizzle with lemon vinaigrette and gen-
tly toss. Serve immediately.
Yield: 4 servings
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EArTHY WITH A SIDE OF CrISP”
CUCUMBER + BEET + CABBAGE
The light, crisp cucumber meets other bright vegetables to create unique flavor play and
crisp textures. Of the bunch, cabbage is the most versatile ingredient—leave it raw and
crunchy in salads or cook it down for stews and side dishes. Most recipes use cucumbers
raw, but beets need to be cooked.
Pickling all three ingredients is an option, but this application creates an amazing salad
using raw cucumber and cabbage and roasted beets. These flavors work nicely with fish,
especially tuna or light meat such as chicken.
CUCUMBER
Eat them raw, slice them up and serve with dip, or chop them and throw into salads.
Because of cucumber’s high water content, this vegetable generally doesn’t cook ef-
fectively. For the best tasting cucumbers, wait for the summer locals to turn up at your
farmers’ market (or in your garden). To increase the impact of the cucumber, leave it raw
and crunchy and serve with the other cooked and soft ingredients; it will provide
a noticeable textural contrast.
BEET