Dad's Blue Cheese Waldorf Salad

I have been going through a couple of old scrapbooks that Dad put together starting in 1974. In them he wrote down recipes (or notes, at least) for things he had made, and collected magazine clippings of recipes that interested him. I see I was already sticking my oar in, as a number of things are in my handwriting, at least until I left home.

I don't imagine that the clippings got made often, if ever, but if it was written in by (his) hand he had made it. This one was made for a party in November of 1990; one of the later additions as he pretty much stopped cooking by the mid '90s.

This is just a simple variation on the classic Waldorf salad, but it's a good one. I'm sure he used a bottled dressing, but it doesn't take long to put together a home-made one, and hey! I have a very fine recipe.

4 servings
30 minutes prep time, including the dressing

1/2 recipe Blue Cheese Salad Dressing
8 or 12 lettuce leaves
2 large apples
2 teaspoons lemon juice
2 stalks of celery
1/3 cup whole or chopped hazelnuts
2 tablespoons crumbled blue cheese

Make the dressing and set it aside.

Wash the lettuce and drain it very well. Arrange it divided on individual salad plates or lining a salad bowl, depending on how you are serving the salad.

Wash and peel the apples and cut them in quarters. Slice the quarters thinly, and toss them with the lemon juice.

Wash and trim the celery, and cut it in thin slices. Toss it with the apples.

Chop the hazelnuts roughly if they are whole, and mix them in with the apples and celery.

Mix in the salad dressing and arrange it over the lettuce leaves. Crumble the last bit of blue cheese over the salad(s) and perhaps sprinkle with a few reserved whole hazelnuts if you have them and are so inclined.




Last year at this time I made White Beans with Celery & Cream.

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