{"id":186,"date":"2011-05-12T07:54:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T11:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twosouthernsisters.com\/?p=186"},"modified":"2011-05-30T12:33:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T16:33:02","slug":"mother-of-the-bride%e2%80%99s-baby-blue-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frillsandmeals.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/mother-of-the-bride%e2%80%99s-baby-blue-salad\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother of the Bride\u2019s Baby Blue Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">T<\/span>his recipe is from a 1960 newspaper clipping that my grandmother had saved.\u00a0 Having a baby shower, bridal shower or just a girl\u2019s get together?\u00a0 This is the perfect salad!<\/p>\n<p>Serves: 6<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00be lb. mixed salad greens<\/li>\n<li>4 oz. blue cheese, crumbled<\/li>\n<li>2 oranges, peeled, in thin slices<\/li>\n<li>1 pint strawberries, quartered<\/li>\n<li>Sweet and Spicy Pecans (recipe below)<\/li>\n<li>Balsamic vinaigrette (recipe below)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Balsamic Vinaigrette:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00bd cup balsamic vinegar<\/li>\n<li>3 tbl. Dijon mustard<\/li>\n<li>3 tbl. Honey<\/li>\n<li>2 garlic cloves<\/li>\n<li>2 small shallots, minced<\/li>\n<li>\u00bc tsp. each salt and pepper<\/li>\n<li>1 cup olive oil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whisk together first 6 ingredients until blended.\u00a0 Slowly add oil and whisk.\u00a0 Put in refrigerator.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet and Spicy Pecans:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00bc cup sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 cup warm water<\/li>\n<li>1 cup pecan halves<\/li>\n<li>2 tbl. Sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 tbl. Chili powder<\/li>\n<li>1\/8 tsp. ground red pepper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stir together \u00bc cup sugar and warm water until sugar dissolves.\u00a0 Add pecans.\u00a0 Soak 10 minutes.\u00a0 Drain, discarding sugar mixture.\u00a0 Combine next 3 ingredients.\u00a0 Add pecans, tossing to coat.\u00a0 Place on lightly greased baking sheet and bake at 350\u00b0 for 10 minutes, stirring once.\u00a0 Set aside and cool.<\/p>\n<p>Assemble salad:<\/p>\n<p>Toss greens with vinaigrette and blue cheese.\u00a0 Top with orange slices and sprinkle with strawberries and pecans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recipe is from a 1960 newspaper clipping that my grandmother had saved.\u00a0 Having a baby shower, bridal shower or just a girl\u2019s get together?\u00a0 This is the perfect salad! Serves: 6 Ingredients: \u00be lb. mixed salad greens 4 oz. blue cheese, crumbled 2 oranges, peeled, in thin slices 1 pint strawberries, quartered Sweet and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[41,60],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salads","tag-recipe","tag-salad-recipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frillsandmeals.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frillsandmeals.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frillsandmeals.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frillsandmeals.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frillsandmeals.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.frillsandmeals.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/www.frillsandmeals.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frillsandmeals.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frillsandmeals.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frillsandmeals.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}