Max, dear, you are so right about the fresh apples and fresh spices. I could not live without my nutmeg grater.
If you are looking for an unusual salad for the ladies, try this one. It is easy and blends some of my favorite foods: apples, peanut butter, and cream cheese. You can dress this up with a lettuce leaf as the base for the salad, or you can place a few purple, seedless grapes on the side, or some mandarin orange segments. Just about any fruit will work.
The Bretton Woods Dressing (wasn’t that a World War I battle? Or was it one of those arms reductions treaties that lead to WWII?) is good on most fruit salads and very nice on tossed lettuce ones too.
The leftover cream cheese-peanut butter bland makes a nice dip for apples and other fresh fruit.
Apple, Peanut Butter, and Cheese Salad:
2 Red Delicious Apples
6 ounces of cream cheese–room temp
½ cup chunky peanut butter
Blend peanut butter and cream cheese well, and form into small balls.
Polish and core the apples and slice into ½ inch thick slices just before serving.
Place apple slices on salad plate (lettuce leaf underneath is optional). Place peanut butter balls in center of apple slices. Drizzle Bretton Wood Dressing over.
Bretton Woods Dressing:
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon pepper
½ teaspoon paprika
½ cup apple juice (or another other fruit juice. If very sweet cut out sugar)
¼ cup lemon juice
½ cup olive oil
3 tablespoons sugar
Place all in a small mixing bowl. Chill and let set for several hours. Just before serving, beat dressing hard with a hand whisk.
Dressing is good on most fresh fruit salads and lettuce salads. The dressing helps keep the apple slices from turning dark.
Serves 4 generously
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