Dish 52: Kale, Beet and Feta Salad with Dill Garlic Dressing

Yum!

Based flavor-wise off this recipe. Kale base with roasted beets, scallions, feta and a garlicky dill vinaigrette. 

Only bits of this are from my share. The kale I got as leftovers from a knife skills class. The beets were roasted for another project. The feta I've been using forever now. Will probably finish it up this week.

Remove the leaves from the kale and slice thin. Chop the beets into sticks. Slice the scallions on the bias. Crumble the feta.

Chop the dill as fine as you can manage, mince the garlic and make a paste with kosher salt. Whisk with a little rice wine vinegar, olive oil, pepper and honey. I made that in the morning so the flavors had a few hours to mingle before lunch.

Really happy with this. Was worried the dressing wouldn't balance out the bitterness of the kale, but with the roasted beets it was perfect. Yay!

Notes for Improvement:

- Get a bigger bowl to eat salads at lunch

- Maybe dice the beets next time? Or have more. It was a great bite when I had a bit of everything and those needed to spread around a bit more

- Scallions are awesome. I wasn't missing them but a little more wouldn't hurt.

Dish 51: Escarole, Peach and Feta Salad

What do I have left today? Escarole and a little cinnamon basil (that honestly isn't doing well. something will be done with that tonight). Got home a little late last night and went searching for escarole salad recipes. Not sure what I searched to get this recipe to come up, but glad I did.

I made a few adaptations while sticking pretty closely to the original: feta instead of goat cheese and a nectarine instead of a peach. My vinaigrette was garancha wine vinegar, rice vinegar, olive oil, honey, salt and pepper.

Assembled at work. It was delicious. A little overboard on the sweet- the bitterness of the escarole got lost amongst everything else- but not unpleasant. It was basically a salty sweet nectarine showcase. The salad ended also up being a little stabby (i.e. I had to stab my fork in to get all the bits that had fallen to the bottom), but I didn't terribly mind.

Notes for Improvement:
- A little less sweet next time (to get a nice balance- it was almost there though). Once again, it would be helpful to eat these at home so I can adjust.
- Chopping up the walnuts and nectarine a bit finer could fix the stabby problem
- Do more savory/sweet salads