Make your green salad more interesting by adding apples, pecans, and goat cheese. This combination creates a unique flavor and texture.
Ingredients:
8 cups mixed Salad greens, such as spinach, arugula & red leaf lettuce
1 cup English cucumber slices halved
1 cup chopped Apple
½ cup Maple Pecans
2 ounces soft Goat cheese (chevre) crumbled
2 green Onions thinly sliced
3 tablespoons Apple cider vinegar dressing
Directions:
In a large bowl, combine the salad greens, maple pecans, cucumber slices, chopped apple, goat cheese and green onions.
Toss with the dressing. Taste and add more dressing, if desired.
At nine years old, Ben Gaffney asked if he could work alongside his father, a chef, at Congress Rotisserie in New Haven. The elder Gaffney put the boy to work washing dishes for two years, in the hope that it would discourage his interest in the restaurant business.
But a calling is a calling. Ben Gaffney has spent his life since then pursuing the wonders of food, bringing Middlefield along for the ride as chef at Lyman Orchards since 2017.
