("Dio e Zingaro" by La Municipale Balcanica)
- Hi, I'm Jerry James Stone.
In today's video, I'm gonna show you how to make
a delicious strawberry and spinach salad.
Also, we're gonna make our own candy nuts for it,
just it give it that homemade touch.
So let me show you how to do it.
We're gonna go ahead and make our candied pecans,
'cause they're gonna take some time to cool
before we actually can add them to the salad.
So the first thing that we're gonna start out with
is our sugar.
We have our sugar here in a bowl.
Gonna add just a pinch of salt.
I'm gonna add in some really hot water.
This is just to dissolve the sugar.
Now it's okay if it doesn't fully dissolve,
because we're gonna bake these also,
which will also help with that.
But if you want to be sort of anal retentive about it,
you can just put it in the microwave
to make sure that the sugar completely dissolves.
So just mix that together, the hot water.
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Okay, so now we're gonna mix in our pecans.
And we're just gonna mix the pecans
until they're fully coated with the syrup.
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Okay, now that they're coated,
I'm gonna take them and I'm gonna lay them out
on a lined baking sheet,
and we're gonna bake them for just a few minutes,
just to fully crisp up that sugar,
give them a nice, nice coating.
Get all that syrup on there.
And this part's really important.
You want to make sure you kind of spread them out evenly
so they're not touching if you can.
So that way they don't stick together
when they're done baking.
Just kinda work 'em all out.
Now we're gonna bake 'em at 350 degrees
for about 10 minutes.
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So the first thing we're gonna start off with
is some fresh baby spinach.
We're gonna add in some olive oil,
some white balsamic vinegar,
a little bit of salt,
some fresh cracked pepper, (pepper grating)
our candied pecans.
Now I'm gonna add in my blue cheese.
If you don't like blue cheese,
well, I have no words for you,
but you can also use feta instead, just so you know.
I love blue cheese, but I know some people do not like it.
Then I'm gonna toss the salad
before I add in the strawberries,
because they're fragile little beings
and I don't want them to get too mushy.
Okay, so just go ahead and toss it
so I can get all the ingredients
covered with the oil and the vinegar,
and then I'm gonna layer in the strawberries.
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Okay, that's looking pretty nicely coated there.
Before I add in my strawberries
let me show you this really cool way for slicing them.
So I'm gonna take a fresh strawberry.
I'm just gonna cut off the top there.
And here's my trick.
Just put it in an egg slicer, and
(slicer clicks) boom!
Equally sliced pieces, ready for whatever you're making.
Okay, so I have my strawberries,
so go ahead and mix those in.
And throw some of them in and just toss the salad,
then I'll put more on top.
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Go, just add a few more.
There we go, that's looking pretty good.
Okay, let me just dive in here.
So that's all it takes to make this delicious salad.
I think the homemade candy pecans
are a really, really nice touch.
And what did you think about that strawberry hack, right?
Super cool for slicing strawberries.
I'll just give it a try here.
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