{"id":32623,"date":"2015-04-01T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/?p=32623"},"modified":"2015-03-29T11:46:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T17:46:28","slug":"rich-wants-to-know-how-to-make-sweet-apple-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/rich-wants-to-know-how-to-make-sweet-apple-salad\/","title":{"rendered":"Rich Wants to Know How to Make Sweet Apple Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A crisp, lightly sweet apple salad is a perfect warm weather side dish; the yogurt based dressing will travel well for picnics.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rich, I have never<\/strong> liked taking bites out of a whole apple, but I do like good, crisp apples. Therefore, I find creative ways to cut them. This recipe is one way to make them \u201cmore acceptable\u201d for a more regular meal and easier to fit in the mouth. I find it is a refreshing summertime replacement for hot side dishes.<\/p>\n

The original<\/strong> recipe card that I wrote the first time I prepared this salad does not say where I got the idea from. I am getting better with experimenting out of the blue, so there is a chance I \u201cmade it up,\u201d although the ingredients are pretty standard. (Click on this link for an easy printable pdf copy of the recipe \u00a0Sweet Apple Salad<\/a><\/span>.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sweet Apple Salad<\/span><\/p>\n

6 large, sweet, crisp apples, chopped into approximately 3\/4 inch pieces (skin can be left on!)<\/em><\/p>\n

1 cup juicy raisins<\/p>\n

1.5 cups pecans, halved or chopped as desired<\/p>\n

(Optional additions: other fruit such as banana, or even celery, or different nuts)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Dressing<\/span><\/p>\n

2\/3 cup sour cream<\/p>\n

1.5 cup plain lowfat yogurt ( I am not a \u201cnon-fat\u201d person)<\/p>\n

1\/4 cup loosely measured brown sugar<\/p>\n

2 Tablespoons lemon juice (I use Real Lemon concentrate much of the time)<\/p>\n

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Mix fruit and nut ingredients in a large bowl. Whisk dressing ingredients together. Add some dressing to salad and mix, a portion at a time until you have the amount of dressing you prefer. Save the rest of the dressing for later leftovers. Salad is about enough for 10-12 one-half cup servings.<\/p>\n

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My latest variation<\/strong> of the salad was this:<\/p>\n

5 cups Gala apples<\/p>\n

20 ounce can of pineapple tidbits in natural juices, drained (but juice reserved for family drink mixing later) <\/em>This ends up being about 1.25 cups of pineapple.<\/p>\n

3\/4 cup raisins<\/p>\n

3\/4 slivered almonds<\/p>\n

1 cup mini-marshmallows (previously vacuumed sealed and stored in the pantry)<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Dressing (same as above)<\/em><\/p>\n

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This turned out<\/strong> scrumpdillyicious! Makes me glad for transportation that gives me affordable access to fresh apples nearly all year long.<\/p>\n

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Rich, I have never liked taking bites out of a whole apple, but I do like good, crisp apples. Therefore, I find creative ways to cut them. This recipe is one way to make them \u201cmore acceptable\u201d for a more regular meal and easier to fit in the mouth. I find it is a refreshing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}