Heart Healthy Spinach Salad
Tahitian Lime Vanilla Vinaigrette
Honey Mandarin, Avocado, Roasted Almond
What are you wearing on Feb. 4?
We, the Ladies of Alpha Phi, suggest something red!
Feb. 4 is National Wear Red Day
Please join us along with the Alpha Phi Foundation, the American Heart Association, and other fine organizations in supporting women’s heart health.
Beginning on National Wear Red Day—Friday, February 4, 2011—millions will help spread the critical message that “Heart Disease Doesn’t Care What You Wear—It’s the #1 Killer of Women.” The Red Dress, the national symbol for women and heart disease awareness, was created by The Heart Truth in 2002 to deliver an urgent wakeup call to American women. Everyone can participate in the national movement by wearing their favorite red dress, shirt, tie, Red Dress Pin, or another red accessory.
Heart Healthy Spinach Salad Recipe
My Citrus Salad Tree – 5 different fruits on one tree:
honey mandarin
tahitian lime
minneola tangelo
valencia orange
late lane navel orange
Tahitian Lime Vanilla Vinaigrette
1/3 c. olive oil
3 T. lime juice
1 t. lime zest
1/2 vanilla bean
1/2 t. sugar
salt & pepper to taste
Scrape the seeds from the vanilla bean pod. Whisk all the ingredients together. Add the pod to the vinaigrette. Let stand at least one hour so the flavors blend. Remove the pod before serving. For best results use a mild tasting olive oil so as not to overpower the fragrant vanilla. If a vanilla bean is not available, substitute 1 t. vanilla extract.
Both the tahitian lime and honey mandarin are from my citrus salad tree.
Marinate the honey mandarin segments in the vinaigrette.
Toss fresh spinach with lime vanilla vinaigrette.
Compose the salad with honey mandarin segments, diced avocado, and roasted almonds.
To Our Healthy Hearts!
The Red Dress was introduced as the national symbol for women and heart disease awareness in 2002.
It reminds women of the need to protect our heart health and inspires us to take action.
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Such a lovely healthy salad, the Tahitian Lime Vanilla Vinaigrette sounds amazing!
I love this! My first job out of college was fundraising with the American Heart Association. While fundraising was ridiculously difficult, I still think it’s such a fantastic cause and am glad to see it spotlighted here with a delicious recipe! 🙂
That tree is amazing. How lucky are you! I loove this recipe very much, fantastic ingredients. Gorgeous photos!
The salad sounds so refreshing. Unfortunately we don’t have all kinds of citrus fruit in Greece. We have several citrus treas in a plot we have bought and when we shall build a house I shall have them grafted to produce different kinds.
I’m sorry if I sound completely ignorant about gardening, but how did you get 5 different citrus varieties to grow on one tree?!!! that is so cool. i want to plant one of those
Hi VTK – a tangelo tree is used as the rootstock, then 4 other fruit branches are grafted onto the tree. Voila! Citrus Salad Tree!
LL
Cool, thanks for the info. I asked my mom about it this morning, she said our neighbor growing up grafted her own combo tree (plums and apricots). Do you find that the flavors of the produce are changed at all? Or if you stick to grafting multiple citrus fruits then its okay.