For the past several years, I’ve been in love with salads. I just can’t get enough of them. My go-to salad has always been my own spinach concoction which would come closest to resembling a Cobb salad. I’m always in search of new ideas for my daily salad feast and this one from Sylvie Shirazi of Gourmande in the Kitchen is something that I never would have come up with on my own. I love celery (especially with almond butter), but I’ve never thought of using it in a salad. Seeing it mixed with fennel (one of my favorites) and paper thin shaved apples, this recipe is sounding better by the minute. Sylive’s gorgeous photography certainly helps that along as well.
Following a month of sumptuous celebratory feasts, during which our dining room tables groaned under the weight of our festivities, we naturally gravitate towards a return to balance. We seek out lively and clean flavors to reset our taste buds and brighten the dull winter days.
Fennel, celery and apple are such wonderful partners in this endeavor and offer a welcome respite from the heavier foods of late. Crispy, crunchy and light, they combine to create a winter-time salad that brings a little cheer to a dulled post-holiday palate.
While celery and apples are household staples and beloved snacks that make the shopping list most weeks, fennel is not always so well loved.
Slightly sweet and crunchy, fennel has a fresh assertiveness all its own. Its subtle anise flavor is beautiful all alone, but its greatest asset maybe its power to blend with and enhance other foods, adding lively layers of flavors and texture…
