Yummy Chopped Lettuce-Cran-Apple Salad

Do you ever go to a potluck meal and discover that the food you brought wasn't all eaten? How about: was hardly touched?

I've had that happen. Probably because I brought roasted vegetables which went up against cheese sauce laden broccoli, mayonaise smothered potato salad, and Snickers/marshmallow/whipped cream "salad." Who's going to go for good-for-you when you can have rich, creamy, and sweet?

Wednesday night we had a loaded potato bar dinner at our local church. The committee in charge provided that (and it was a great idea!) and my half of the alphabet was to bring salads. I'm proud to say, my salad bowl was scraped clean!

One friend told me, "Sharon, that salad was delicious...I commented on it several times as I ate it! Yum!"

"That salad was yummy, Sharon," another friend said, "I tried to get seconds but it was all gone!"

Does a cook's heart proud.

My salad is a variation of one I found on Pinterest. Here is the original.

This is the one of the newest in my repertoire of salads. Here's the recipe.

Chopped Lettuce-Cranberry-Apple-Salad
Serves 8-10 (obviously you can reduce quantities for less people)
Click here for printable version

8-10 cups chopped artisan (or romaine) lettuce

2 medium apples, chopped

1/2 cup dried cranberries

1 cup chopped toasted walnuts

4 slices bacon, crisp-cooked and crumbled

3/4 cup Poppy Seed Salad Dressing 

1/4 cup Balsamic Vinaigrette 

Instructions

To keep the apples from turning brown, I dunk them in lemon juice before placing them in the salad.

Reserve 1 Tablespoon cranberries, 1 Tablespoon walnuts, and 1/4 of the bacon bits; set aside. In a large bowl, combine the lettuce, apples, cranberries, walnuts, and bacon. Mix together dressings. Drizzle over salad and toss. Sprinkle reserved cranberries, walnuts and bacon over top. 

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