Spinach, Red Onion, Tomato, Walnut Salad

Last night D made me go to the gym with him. And when I say made I mean he made me feel so guilty about the fact that we have a gym in our building and I’ve only been there twice that I just had to tag along. Worst thing ever. I don’t know about you but I think going to the gym is downright dreadful. That is the only place where you literally can feel every single second slowly crawling along. If I ever feel like time is going too fast now I know all I need to do is run down to the gym and that’s where it really slows down. O and another awful thing about the gym – it takes all the joy out of eating. Now that I know it will take me 10 torture-some minutes of pointless climbing on the stair master to burn off the calories in a single slice of bread – hmmm don’t think I’ll ever enjoy (or eat) bread again. With that in mind I thought today would be an appropriate day to post a salad — hopefully one that will not take too long to work off at the gym : )

Spinach, Red Onion, Tomato, Walnut Salad

Serves: 2

Start to Finish: 10 minutes

Ingredients:

2 handfuls of fresh spinach leaves, torn in half

1 tomato, sliced

1/8 small red onion, thinly sliced

handful of walnuts

handful of crumbled gorgonzola cheese

1-2 tablespoons olive oil

2-3 teaspoons balsamic vinegar

salt, pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Microwave Gorgonzola cheese until slightly melted, 10-20 seconds.

2. Mix olive oil and balsamic vinegar together.

3. On a plate layer spinach leaves, tomato slices, red onion slices, drizzle with olive oil mixture, add crumbled cheese and sprinkle with walnuts. Salt and pepper to taste.

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Tagged as: gorgonzola cheese, red onion, salad, spinach, tomato, vegetarian