Fruit salad with goat cheese

Strawberry, green grape and goat cheese salad

Adapted from “Katie Brown’s Outdoor Entertaining”

Ingredients:

1 minced shallot

1 tablespoon olive oil

½ tablespoon honey

2 tablespoons red wine vinegar

1 pint strawberries, sliced

1 cup green grapes, sliced in half lengthwise

½ cup crumbled goat cheese

Method:

Combine shallot, oil, vinegar and honey. Salt and pepper to taste. Mix strawberries, grapes and goat cheese in a medium bowl. Toss with vinaigrette mixture.

I made this recipe once as originally written. It met the Dave test, but I wasn’t quite as wowed. I’d wondered if it would have been better with some honeyed goat cheese, and then thought, well, why don’t I just add honey? I like this version better myself. It still makes you pucker up a bit, but tempers the edge.

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