Recipe: Sweet Peach & Goat Cheese Salad

Sweet Peach & Goat Cheese Salad

Recreated a Mendocino Farms salad

5 stars

I saw this salad advertised in an email from Mendocino Farms. As I read through the ingredient components, I thought to myself, "We can make that!" It turned out GREAT!!! A $14.35 salad but ours is all ORGANIC!

Ingredients:

• Shaved, roasted chicken breast (we used Impossible chicken that we air fried)
• Sweet peaches
• Romaine, kale and mixed greens
• Pickled red onions
• Fresh mint
• Shaved fennel
• Marinated goat cheese (we used honey goat cheese)
• Honey roasted almonds (to cut back on calories and more sweetness, we used Marcona almonds)
• Drizzle of hot peach honey
• Farmhouse vinaigrette (made our own basic vinaigrette)

Recipe: Creamy Polenta with Artichokes Agrodolce

Creamy Polenta with Artichokes Agrodolce

Food & Wine Magazine, May 2024, p.52
4.8 stars

I loved this dish but thegrandcruman did not as he didn't like the artichokes and vinegar-y-ness to it. I think it's restaurant-worthy with all of its really great flavors. If anything, the polenta itself was super flavorful!

Ingredients: quick-cooking polenta, fennel, marinated artichoke hearts, Castelvetrano olives, raisins, dry white wine, sherry vinegar, water, whole milk, butter, shallots, garlic, extra-virgin olive oil, sugar, Kosher salt, black pepper

Tips/Notes:

• Minced instead of slicing the garlic
• Used regular raisins that we had on hand
• Shorted the salt (1/2 tsp instead of 3/4 tsp) in the vegetable mixture and also shorted it in the polenta
• Added olives when serving as thegrandcruman isn't a fan of olives
• Forgot to add the mint leaves and red pepper for garnish