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| Just pulled out of the oven! |
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This week’s French Fridays with Dorie challenge is for the All-White Salad. I suppose this salad would be appealing to people who live in wintery climates where fresh greens are hard to come by for months on end. But, it was created deliberately and served in Paris. In SoCal, where we have wonderful, fresh greens year-round, this salad looks like one of those people from Michigan whose skin has never seen the sun – pallid and lackluster.
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| Peeled, stuffed, basted, & ready for the oven! |
Rather than miss another week, I decided to make up a missed recipe: Baked Apples Filled with Fruit and Nuts. These apples take so long to bake that I started them before dinner and took them out of the oven just as we finished eating. We stuffed ours with: walnuts, dates, golden raisins, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, and ginger. The first thing we noticed was how buttery they tasted. All the sweet ingredients blended together to create a dessert that was so sweet it was hard to believe the only added sweetener was honey. And they smelled amazing while baking – I had to open the oven several times to baste them.
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| Huckleberry Finn’s life is so rough that he has the Kitten Abuse Hotline on Speed-dial! |
LOL…yeah, the salad resembled my pale complexion! Good move on making the apples, Susan! Happy Valentine’s Day!!!
“this salad looks like one of those people from Michigan whose skin has never seen the sun – pallid and lackluster.” Oh luv, you have just made my day. What an awful salad. Lets rub their noses in our fantastic weather some more! At least until we dry up completely! I can’t imagine making this salad ever again! But these lovely apples? Most certainly.
Lovely pictures! I too had a ton of butter on the apples when I made this! But I rather have apple crumble….. HF sure is living a blissful life!!
1) I am one of those lackluster pallid people and there is no way in heck this salad was made with me in mind. I have had it up to here with white!!!!!
2) Baked apples is a far better use of apples than an all-white salad.
3) Enjoy your sunshine 🙂
Susan, FYI, I actually loved this salad, The dressing was really good and quite simple to make. Your apples
turned out very well, I loved the stuffing used in these. That is an adorable photo of cat. Hope you and
John have a great Valentine’s Day.
Oh these apples are beautiful Susan! How can something so simple taste so wonderful. I guess it’s stuffed with some amazing flavors, and I love your ‘buttery’ description of it! This is the perfect comfort food for our wintery weather here in D.C.! : )
What scrumptious apples, I can only imagine how delicious your kitchen smelled!
Your apples look wonderful, Susan. And Huck seems like a perfectly pampered pet! 🙂
Susan your baked apples look fantastic – this is a recipe that I missed as well but since it seems to be a European signature dish, I have not convinced myself yet to make yet another baked apple dish – but your photos might just change my mind! And we do like the smell of baking apples!
Have a lovely weekend!
These look and sound wonderful. And I just bought two Cortland apples in the hopes to use them as a baked apple. Might just have to do them this way!
Great cat pic. Our kitties are just as ‘abused’ as yours!! 🙂
Gorgeous apples! Love the correlation to tourists and their all white skin – though I have to admit I may have that lackluster pallid glow about me, odd for a SoCal life. And Huckleberry Finn looks like he has a lush life!
Hilarious Susan! If I had that rug in front of the fire I would roll around just like your cat!
Listen to you and Trevor… anemic is a very funny description. It was true that it didn’t look appealing but it really wasn’t bad at all. These apples though blew me away… amazing and the smell wonderful. Great make up to do.
What can I say I still haven’t made the apples I am so ashamed! I have to make them soon there is no excuse any more! But I liked the salad maybe because of the lack of snow this year in my part of the world! I like the sun but winter without snow is no winter. I feel that I am missing a season!
It actually made me smile just to see those apples that I adored so much. I am still getting over our reaction to that salad. I don’t know what happened- but it was not positive. I am actually so curious to know what the exact one Dorie enjoyed tasted like- as I am sure I somehow managed to not replicate it in my kitchen:) And with about 25 inches of snow around doing anything else white is not on my list. Don’t even get me started on how much I love that photo of snugglebum Huckleberry. He gets sunshine, beaches AND a fireplace ?? Well played Huck, well played.
Yum! I would love to enjoy that dessert in front of that cozy fire.
Do you think our pets are spoiled? I live in a winter wonderland, yet this white salad had little appeal on the page, and even less once I made it. NOT my favorite. I’m looking forward to the crepes.Have a great weekend.
I love your tongue-in-cheek response to the all white salad! Here, too, we have plentiful greens all winter long! These baked apples look so good – like a crust less apply pie. They made me think of my mother’s apples baked in crust served with a crème Anglaise. Hope you are having a good weekend – I worked all day yesterday and am enjoyin a day in the garden catching up!