Foodie Friends Friday! Linky Party

Foodie Friend Fridays ~~ great friends and great recipes

Friday again and this time I am on holidays.... or vacation as it is said here in the States.  This Friday our group is trying something new and exciting.  It is also new to me and I am hoping that I will be able to figure out what to do.  We are having a linky party and going to share our recipes through this way.  All our members will be host to our party and if you link on one you will link on them all.  I hope you will have fun with this and join our link party.  It is a great way for bloggers to get there blogs out there and notice.  Also with the link going to all the members pages... that is a lot of exposure. 
    This week I am going to feature my own recipe for this linky party:  Spinach-Strawberry Salad with Poppy seed dressing  My strawberry patch has been wonderful this year and we have been able to eat fresh strawberries just about every day... at least the ones that the chipmunks don't get!  I am not sure why they just have to take one bite out of many... It would be so much nicer if they just ate the whole strawberry and left some for me :).  But the ones that they have gotten their chompers in go to the bird feeders so then either the chippies, squirrels or birds can have a feast on my strawberries.... But, anyways here is my recipe:

                               Spinach-Strawberry Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing

Ingredients:

1/3 cup white sugar

1/4 cup apple cider vinegar

1 tsp dry mustard

1 tbsp poppy seed

1/2 cup vegetable oil (I used sunflower oil)

1/4 tsp paprika

spinach

arugula

strawberries

dried cranberries

red onions

glazed walnuts

For the dressing mix first 6 ingredients in a bowl until sugar is dissolved.  Let sit for a short bit so the flavors mix.  I let it sit on the counter top for approximately 1/2 hour.  Long enough for me to get some pictures and make the chicken that I had with it.

Combine the last 6 ingredients. These ingredients I just add until I think it is the right amount - use it as a guideline and to your own taste.  Pour dressing onto spinach strawberry mixture or serve separately and let your guest use as much dressing as they would like.

I served this with grill chicken.. I sprinkled thyme, basil and greek seasoning on chicken breasts and grilled on my George Foreman Grill until chicken is cooked thoroughly.

salad with poppy seed dressing on side

strawberry-spinach salad with poppyseed dressing.

 Here is a list of the Foodie Friends Friday members that are involved with the linky party... Please feel free to stop by all and enjoy their pages and their great recipes:


Robin's View
A 'lil Country Sugar
Saucy Girls Kitchen
Passione Per Cucina
Everything In ThevKitchen Sink
What's Cooking in the Burbs
Busy Vegetarian Mom
Cookies Cakes and Bakes
From Calculus to Cupcakes
Cupcakes and Kale Chips
Walking on Sunshine
Cafe Blue Ridge
Chef PickyKid and Me
Family Food Finds
Bringing Pleasure to the Kitchen
Cindy's Recipes and Writings
DJ's Sugar Shack

Also please link up your recipe to this party.  It will give you good exposure as remember if you link up with my blog your recipe will automatically link up with all the member's blogs above.  Here are some of the suggestions we ask you to do when linking up your recipe:

Make sure that anything you link up is:

• Made by you
• Not part of a sponsership/sales/giveaway
• Linked to a specific page of your recipe, not your homepage

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• Show some love and link back to my blog and Foodie Friend Friday
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• Take some time and check out other submitted links and the blogs of all of our gracious hosts

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