Everyday Cooking Adventures' Fig, Feta, & Spinach Salad

I made this as a side to Bon Appetit’s Lamb Sausage Patties with Feta & Mint. To continue with this Greek themed main dish, I decided to do a spinach salad and incorporate the feta into it as well. I then was debating whether to open my pomegranate and scoop out the seeds to add to the salad or to learn what in the world one does with fresh figs. Both fruits were picked up on my latest adventurous grocery store trip to pick up ingredients I’ve never used before. I decided on the figs and watched this very easy and quick video to show me how to cut & serve them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nboN-S1yttY. SO easy! The figs were super sweet and melted in my mouth and the spinach and feta drizzled with good olive oil & balsamic vinegar were the perfect complement. The salad was perfection if I do say so myself. And I felt very healthy after. Here’s my salad:

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Fig, Feta & Spinach Salad

By: Everyday Cooking Adventures, 2012
Serves 2

Ingredients

4 fresh figs
1 TBSP feta or more as desired
6-8 grape tomatoes or 1 large tomato
fresh spinach
honey
good olive oil
good balsamic vinegar
salt & pepper

Directions

1. Thoroughly rinse the spinach, tomatoes, and figs.

2. Distribute the spinach between two plates.

3. Slice the grape tomatoes in half or 1 large tomato into quarters and place on top of the spinach.

4. Without slicing all the way through, make two perpendicular slices into each fig to quarter them. Do not cut all the way through. Pinch each quarter at the base with fingers to smush open. It will look like you just made a pretty flower bloom. Sprinkle a little feta and honey in the middle and place two each on the salad. Here’s a great video to show how to slice the figs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nboN-S1yttY

5. Crumble the feta over both salads. Drizzle very lightly with the olive oil and balsamic vinaigrette. Sprinkle salt and fresh ground pepper as desired. Serve. Enjoy this healthy meal or as the Greek would say: Eis igían sas!