Strawberry and Avocado Spinach Salad

I had some avocados that needed finishing and since I had recently enjoyed using them in a salad I was thinking that another salad would be a good idea. Strawberries are in season so I had a bunch of them on hand and the idea of a strawberry and avocado spinach salad was born. I thought that salty bacon and tangy blue cheese would go well with the creamy avocados and sweet and juicy strawberries. I also had some fresh peas on hand I could couldn't think of a reason to not throw them into the salad as well. One of the things that I like about salads is that they generally don't require much cooking. Although I had to cook the bacon for this salad the rest was as easy as slicing a few things. The strawberry and avocado spinach salad was really good! I enjoyed using the avocados and strawberries in a salad once again. I will have to remember to use fresh peas in salads more ofter as well.
Ingredients:
1 clove garlic (grated)
1 teaspoon honey
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon raspberry vinegar
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
2 tablespoon olive oil
1 5 ounce bag baby spinach
2 handfuls strawberries (sliced)
1 avocado (peeled, pitted, sliced)
1 handful fresh peas (optional)
2 slices bacon (cooked and crumbled, optional)
1 handful blue cheese (crumbled)
1 handful pecans (chopped)
Directions:
1. Mix the garlic, honey, mustard, vinegar and oil.
2. Assemble the salad and toss with the dressing.
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56 comments:
It's a beautiful salad! Great blog. I stop by everyday. Thanks!
This looks like the perfect combination. Yummy.
I love your addition of peas in this salad, yum! They would be really good with the strawberries and bacon.
Hi Kevin...
This looks amazing!!!
I have an award waiting for you on my blog!!!
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Diana
Once again, you've created a gorgeous dish with some of my all-time favorite ingredients - yum!!
These look good! Very healthy with so much greens and fruits!
Kevin,
Avocado+strawberry+spinach sans bacon=superfood
Avo+strawberry+spinach+bacon= mine
I must confess that bacon is my weakness!
Someday I'm going to come knocking on your door with fork in hand ready to eat. I think there isn't a day go by that you don't have something creative, beautiful, and delicious sounding on your blog!
Honestly, a cookbook with your strawberry recipes could be a best seller, easily, as could a collection of mushroom ideas from your kitchen.
WOW look at those colors. they scream EAT ME. I AM DELICIOUS. THat is one great salad. This might be my favorite recipe from your blog so far :)
Avocados and spinach are good separately, and amazing together! Lovely salad!
Ooh those colors are gorgeous! The flavors look like they worked so well together. Mmm gotta get my hands on some fresh strawberries and avocados now!
Thanks for visiting my blog tonight. You have some really nice looking salads on your blog. I remember eating peanut butter and banana sandwiches as a kid, too bad I didn't think to add the honey. Will do that for my kids for sure. This salad looks amazing!
this is exactly a salad they used to serve for special events when i was at school, but they used poppy seed dressing. (though this looks even better.)
What a great summer salad - love it
Cheers
Cathy
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What a pretty salad!
This salad looks fresh and delicious! The dressing seems perfect and loved the addition of fresh peas.
How absolutely fresh and lovely! You always have the most wonderful dishes on your blog!! :-)
Better than restaurant looking! I love how colored it is!
that looks beautiful. I love the colors. YUM
this looks really good. i would have never thouhgt of combining avocados and strawberries. guess i'll have to give them a try :)
I big plate of this for dinner would be just lovely.
strawberry, avocado and spinach..why i didnt thought about this, great flavors together!
What a gorgeous salad, that dressing sounds good too. I often throw strawberries and nuts into salads, I like red onion with them too.
When I visit your blog I wish I had a fork :)
Wow, you're on quite the strawberry kick these days. This salad looks utterly gorgeous and contains many of my favourite ingredients...:)
Kev, you should start a salad book. The way you incorporate ingredients is endless. The strawberries have to be sooo refreshing.
I love this combination for a salad....the bacon adds so much flavor.
That salad, my friend is a meal...nice combo.
A riot of color on a plate! Gorgeous!
What a beautiful burst of color on plate. I sure wish I was having that for lunch today!
Kevin ,this look amazing, never try before strawberries with avocado but look sooo good!!! xGloria
I'll pass on the peanut butter/banana sanny's... But this looks wonderful! I'm more of a salad person, anyway...
oh, that looks divine kevin! what a gorgeous mix of ingredients for salad!
you know what, I'd love to have you submit either this salad, or the delicious banana-pb-sandwich below for my healthy cooking blog event!
I love strawberry season.
Strawberries make such a great addition to a salad, it's so summery! Yours looks perfect!
Wow. This salad involves all the ingredients I dream about! And it looks sooo pretty too :)
LOVE your blog!
Healthy and colourful and bet it tastes good too.
Wow you're really cranking out the strawberry recipes... Lots of great savory ideas so far.. Thanks!
Not only does that salad sound amazing... It looks pretty, too!
I love avocados in salad yumm. I don't always like strawberries in salad, unless they're nice and ripe.
This salad is so pretty - the strawberries and avocados complement each other perfectly.
Kevin, that is amazing. I can eat strawberries, pecans and avocado all itself, so why not together! Thank you for the inspiration :)
Margot
So there I was at my local grocery store standing near the cheese. Ahh yes I have strawberries, what was in that dish that Kevin made. Let me grab some feta. I can not wait to try your other strawberry dish with quinoa. Then I see you have yet another strawberry beautiful dish. Oh Kevin your killing me with your goodness. Can I send my husband to your place for about a week so he can learn from you?
Kevin- This salad looks amazing! I love the use of berries and nuts in a healthy spinach salad! Perfect for summer!
I love strawberries in salad. I have to get some and try this combination. It sounds great!
Love the combo Kevin, bacon, blue cheese and strawberries sound amazing.
I definitely have to try this one sooon :-)
You are playing a lot with straberries and I can see that they look so delicious in a salad.
This is very very good! I love the strawberries because it gives a fruity flavor!
Your recipes always impress me! :)
This recipe looks divine-strawberries and spinach are a great combo! I just linked to your post from the MyPunchbowl free invitations and party planning blog.
I stumbled upon your blog when I was looking for a great picture of a salad for a 'Salad Party' I was having... This salad looked so stunning I had to try making it. A few of my friends were skeptical at first when they heard the list of ingredients, but were all blown away when they tried it.
It's so delicious, I will definitely be adding it to my regular Summer meals! Thank you for sharing the recipe!
I hope you don't mind that I illustrated this recipe!! I didn't include some things due to space. The prompt for my class was to illustrate a recipe of our choice to hypothetically go in RealSimple magazine. Let me know what you think! :D
http://lauraguard.blogspot.com/2010/02/prompt-to-illustrate-recipe-of-our.html
This is not only a beautiful picture, but I can't wait to recreate it tonight! Wow, it will pair quite well with my salmon. Yum.
Can you please tell me what kind of raspberry vinegar you use? Thanks for the assist!
Sandy: I do not really have a favourite brand of raspberry vinegar. The brand that I currently have is Elysee but I am sure that most brands will work.
peas and bacon optional? PSSSHAW!
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