I have partnered with my favorite bloggers to bring you an Easy Valentine’s Day Dinner. We have created a a super easy four course gourmet meal so you can enjoy an evening at home without a lot of work!
For my part of the dinner, I made a delicious Spinach Strawberry Champagne Salad. It has fresh baby spinach, fresh sliced strawberries, crumbled blue cheese, and chopped walnuts. You could use candied walnuts as well. To make the salad extra special, I use the Orange Muscat Champagne Vinegar from Trader Joe’s in the vinaigrette. It adds a wonderful sophisticated flavor for this special occasion.
- 2 tablespoons cup olive oil
- 2 tablespoons Orange Muscat Champagne Vinegar (from Trader Joe's)
- ½ teaspoon dijon mustard
- 1 teaspoon white sugar
- ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
- ¼ teaspoon italian seasoning
- 3 cups baby spinach leaves
- ¼ cup blue cheese
- ½ cup chopped walnuts
- 1 cup sliced strawberries
- In a small bowl stir together all the ingredients for the vinaigrette. Set aside.
- In a large bowl toss together the spinach, blue cheese, walnuts, and strawberries. Just before serving, drizzle the vinaigrette over the salad.
Recipe adapted from AllRecipes.com.
Don’t stop with the salad. Make this easy dinner by following the links to these other blogs for fabulous recipes for the remainder of the Valentine’s Day Dinner.
Appetizer: Double Tomato Bruschetta from Life Tastes Good. Marion over at Life Tastes Good starts off our fabulous Valentine’s Day dinner with a beautiful but easy Double Tomato Bruschetta.
Main Dish: Creamy Chicken Linguine from Grumpy’s Honeybunch. Shelby at The Life and Loves of Grumpy’s Honeybunch has made a delicious, easy, comforting and romantic dinner entree with this creamy chicken linguine. Don’t forget the wine!
Dessert: Chocolate Strawberry Eclair Cake from Renee’s Kitchen Adventures. Rene from Renee’s Kitchen Adventures finishes the meal with a gorgeous, elegant Chocolate Strawberry Eclair Cake. If you haven’t won over that special someone by now, this dessert will win their heart.
Head over to visit these blogs for their fabulous recipes and you will impress your Valentine’s dinner date with this fantastic meal.
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Michele, nothing says love like a fresh salad as beautiful as this one and it sounds super flavorful. Cannot wait to try it out! Thank you for being a special part of this meal with us!
Thanks Shelby! This was so much fun to participate in this Valentine’s meal.
What a delicious combination of flavors!!! I don’t have the champagne vinegar, but I bet a good white wine vinegar would work too!! Can’t wait to make this!
Thanks Renee! White eine vinegar would work very well in the vinnagrette.
Michele that salad looks divine! What a beautiful photo! I can’t wait to try it. I am excited to have been a part of creating such a wonderfully easy Valentine’s Day Dinner with you ladies!! Thanks! ~Marion
Thanks Marion! This was a lot of fun creating this dinner with all you ladies.
I absolutely LOVE strawberries in salads. LOVE them. And this salad looks so delish!
We do too! Thank you!
gorgeous salad!
Thank you!
What a beautiful and delicious looking salad! Thanks for sharing on Weekend re-Treat. Pinning for later.
I love these kind of salads. Now I have a reason to go to Trader’s Joes we just recently got one here!! Yay!! Thanks for sharing at The Weekend Retreat, hope to see you back on Thursday http://mommyondemand.com/
Thank you for a wonderful link party! I love that Trader Joes vinaigrette! It alone is worth the trip in my opinion.
G’day Michele! Gorgeous photos! Recipe so healthy!
On the list for my next party!
Cheers! Joanne
Hi Joanne, Thank you for the kind words. I’m glad you like it. Please let me know if you try it.
That looks soo good!! Thank you for sharing your recipe 🙂 will definitely give this a try! Great photos.
Mmmmmm…..yum. This looks totally amazing. I’m just starring at the screen looking at how delicious they look.