Recently my friend Lisa came to visit, and like me, she also enjoys going with the flow to create new recipes. After a day at the beach, we stopped at the grocery and picked up the ingredients for our dinner that night - marinated shrimp and mushrooms on skewers and a fresh seasonal salad. Collaboration can sometimes result in a synchronistic result - the creation being better than the sum of its parts! That's what we thought when we came up with this fantastically delicious summer salad!
Strawberry & Arugula Salad
fresh arugula (rocquette)
crumbled goat cheese
chopped, toasted walnuts
fresh seasonal strawberries, sliced
raspberry pomegranate dressing (prepared)
For each individual salad:
Arrange about 1 cup of arugula on each salad plate. Sprinkle with about 2 tblsp of goat cheese. Arrange 4 - 6 sliced strawberries on salad and top with chopped, toasted walnuts. We used Ken's prepared Raspberry Pomegranate Dressing, it went very well with the salad. Magnifique!
While we were preparing the meal, music in the background was working its inspirational magic. Give a listen to the soundtrack of "No Reservations" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-5RJTf0-Jk. with music by Michael Buble, Paolo Conte, Luciano Pavarotti, Renata Tebaldi and more. If you are interested in expanding you musical horizons and exploring the joys of appreciating some operatic music, I highly recommend it. The movie itself, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Aaron Eckhart is one of my favorite cooking movies, as is the foreign film it was based on, "Mostly Martha" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZlIYJ9njxc.
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