Strawberry Spinach Palooza! (salad)

Somebodies just made their first legit recipe in their new home! Yeah!

Spinach Salad, from the Worldwide Ward Cookbook:

8 oz Spinach
1/2 c nuts
3 T sugar
1 lb strawrberries (yum)

Caramel the nuts by cooking them in the sugar, then mix all the other stuffs in a bowl. And add some awesome poppy seed dressing on top:

Poppy Seed dressing:
1 1/2 c sugar
2/3 c white vinegar
2 c olive oil
2 t dry mustard
2 t salt
3 T poppy seeds

So...we had our first little crisis when we realized that we had no vinegar,c but never fear! We borrowed some from our neighbors, the Walton grandparents...except it was apple vinegar, but it worked out deliciously.

Oh, and Marquie wasn't sure if those almonds we used were ever gonna caramelize, but they did.

We halved the dressing, because they called for way too much. But don' forget to add the poppy seeds until after the rest of the dressing is completely blended. But guess how we blended it! In our new Magic Bullet[tm] (*awesome infomercial jingle*).

Thanks for sharing our glee,
Love,
The Waltons