Apple & Blue Cheese Salad

The traditional Waldorf salad (named after the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York where it was first created) contains celery, apples, walnuts and grapes – all coated with a creamy dressing. I played with that idea to create this salad. I used gorgonzola cheese at the cabin, but any blue cheese works well.
½ head leafy lettuce, washed
1 orange bell pepper, diced
1/3 cucumber, chopped
2 stalks green onion, chopped
1 apple, thinly sliced
3 tbsp dried cranberries
5 tbsp toasted almonds, roughly chopped
1 boiled egg
2 tbsp raspberry vinegar
6 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp basil
salt and pepper to taste
blue cheese, also to taste
Whisk together vinegar, olive oil, basil, salt and pepper. Rip lettuce into bite-size pieces. Toss with the vinaigrette. Add all the other veggies and the blue cheese. Toss again, making sure the cucumber and bell peppers don’t settle on the bottom of the salad bowl. Slice the egg and place on top with the apple, cranberries and almonds.