{"id":6796,"date":"2014-02-04T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=6796"},"modified":"2014-02-03T14:56:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T20:56:01","slug":"baby-kale-salad-with-apples-maple-vinaigrette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=6796","title":{"rendered":"Baby Kale Salad with Apples &#038; Maple Vinaigrette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0034\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3666\/12293902843_5a9ed0e932.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"DSC_0034\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3666\/12293902843_5a9ed0e932_b.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the holidays, we ate a lot of really rich food. So lately we&#8217;ve been craving simple and fresh, but still want to keep it as seasonal as possible. Enter baby kale, crisp apples, and salty tamari almonds. The maple vinaigrette is a dressing inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=4765\" target=\"_blank\">this salad<\/a>. It&#8217;s easy to make and keeps well for a couple of weeks. If you keep it around that long, just bring to room temperature and shake it up really well before serving; the tahini tends to separate from the vinegar and maple syrup after a few days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For the Salad<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 15px;\">About four good handfuls of baby kale (I&#8217;d estimate 6 cups)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>1 large honey crisp or other sweet crispy apple<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup tamari roasted almonds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>For the Vinaigrette<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 15px;\">2 Tbsp olive oil<\/span><\/li>\n<li>2 Tbsp red wine vinegar<\/li>\n<li>2 Tbsp maple syrup<\/li>\n<li>1 Tbsp sesame tahini<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp dijon mustard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0035\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3770\/12294310836_cdd74c48a8.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC_0035\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3770\/12294310836_cdd74c48a8_b.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Combine the ingredients for the dressing and whisk together until incorporated. Chop apple into 1\/2-inch cubes. Roughly chop almonds. In a large salad bowl, combine and toss baby kale with dressing. Toss apples and almonds on top, and serve!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the holidays, we ate a lot of really rich food. So lately we&#8217;ve been craving simple and fresh, but still want to keep it as seasonal as possible. Enter baby kale, crisp apples, and salty tamari almonds. The maple vinaigrette is a dressing inspired by this salad. It&#8217;s easy to make and keeps well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=6796\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Baby Kale Salad with Apples &#038; Maple Vinaigrette&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-6796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6796"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6803,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions\/6803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}