Yesterday’s adventures in recipe development in the kitchen sure did make lunch today a breeze!
One of my freelance pieces had me working to create a recipe that screamed “Florida” and I ended up making a salad packed with fresh produce (Florida citrus + strawberries!) and a homemade honey citrus goat cheese dressing.
My goodness, it took a lot of self control not to lap up all of the remaining goat cheese dressing yesterday, but I’m glad I held off because it was fantastic to be able to enjoy it again this afternoon.
I didn’t take the time to make my salad look all fancy dancy like I did with the one I made and photographed yesterday, but it still tasted fantastic!
Today’s salad included arugula, spinach, shredded chicken, goat cheese, praline pecans, strawberries, a peeled clementine and fresh blueberries, all topped with my honey citrus goat cheese dressing. When the recipe for this dressing is published (unfortunately it’ll be a while, as it’s for a summer publication), I will definitely share it with you!
Wedding Golf Cart
This weekend Ryan and I are off to Amelia Island to celebrate our friend’s wedding on Sunday.
We’ve also been assigned an important task!
We’re decorating the wedding golf cart that is going to be driven by the bride and groom!
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After lunch today I met up with Ryan to pick out a bunch of stuff at a local party store to outfit the golf cart.
We had a hard time resisting purchasing the following items to affix to their cart:
- Bubble machine
- Police lights
- Thunder and lighting machine
- Strobe light
- Fog machine
I’m pretty sure their golf cart would’ve looked like a snazzy strip club on wheels if we could’ve outfitted it the way we wanted to in our minds.
Instead we selected traditional white décor, streamers and balloons. I suppose it will look a little more classy than the brothel cart we wanted to create, right?
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SO jealous that strawberries are in season for you, and they look super bright and flavorful. I might need take a trip down to FL just for the fruit.
the strawberries and citrus are AMAZING right now!
That salad looks amazing. I love the combo of fruit and goat cheese…it’s always a winner!
HAHA. I can NOT wait until you launch the final product. Better be a strip club on wheels!
I LOVE clems and strawberries right now!!! Any salad with fruit in it is the best. Definitely screams Florida! That dressing sounds great too.
Wow –good job on the photo of the salad! It looks AMAZING! I am excited to try and re-create that when you post the recipe. Have a great afternoon and good luck with your cart decorating skills this weekend 🙂
HAH. That is hilarious–glad you chose the ‘good’ route 🙂
ANd those strawbs sound/look amazing right now! Jealous! I love ’em in salads!
I had a little Florida citrus in my salad too! Oh, and I’m sure the cart will be lovely… though I think the bubble machine would have been a nice touch 😉
Wow. That would have been amazing to add all that to the golf cart! Sounds like you’re going with a better, safer plan! 🙂 If the bride’s reading this post, she probably just let out a huge sigh of relief!
haha probably… but i AM a little bummed we didn’t get the fog machine.
Wow. That salad looks amazing. Can’t wait for strawberries to be in season again. I love seeing fruit in salads…a wonderful and colorful touch!
Haha I would appreciate the brothel-themed cart, personally! Also, I really think you need a book deal… freelance isn’t cutting it! You are so talented!! 🙂
What a fun task! We’re actually thinking about going to Amelia Island for our honeymoon after our wedding (then saving up for a big trip to take the next year). Can’t wait to hear about it!
Oh JULIE!! You did such a fabulous job on the photo!!!! You should be really proud of yourself.. cannot wait to try it out!!
Oh man, I’m dying to know the dressing recipe because I love all things goat’s cheese. As for the golf cart, sounds like it’s going to be a tough one to beat with all of the fancy gadgets they’ve got! Have a ton of fun at the wedding and while decorating the cart 🙂
That salad looks to die for! It makes me wish it was summer.
That salad looks to die for, and the dressing sound amazing!!!
That salad looks awesome! You are inspiring my dinner. Also, I’m getting married on a golf course in August, can we hire you and Ryan to decorate our golf cart?? Too bad I’m in NY….
LOL!! Brothel cart! I love the ideas. That salad does look absolutely delicious. Can’t wait to see the recipe when it is released! It sounds like it was a fun project.
What a cute idea! The salad sounds amazing 😀
That salad looks incredible! Salty goats cheese and fresh fruit is one of my favourite combos!
mmm berries AND citrus all in one amazing salad – i’m sold!! sounds (and looks!) incredible!
That salad looks delicious! I’m a fan of tossing fruit into the mix.
That salad looks fabulous! I love putting fruit in salads! And oh. my gosh. goat cheese dressing?! CANNOT wait until you post that one!!
That is, hands down, the most GORGEOUS salad I’ve ever seen!
You gotta get pics of the golf cart, that is going to be hilarious! Ps The salad looks TO DIE FOR YUM!!!
that salad looks ridiculously delicious! i’m sure that dressing is to die for! can’t wait for the recipe 🙂
That dressing sounds super delicious!
I love fruit in salad! Fruit just makes everything so much better. Yum!!
Yay! I’m going to be just south of where you live (in Lecanto) visiting my in-laws this weekend- I can’t wait to get my hands on some fresh Florida citrus!
Have you ever been to a Hydroponic Farm? My MIL goes to one all the time down there- I’m not exactly sure where it is.
That wedding is going to awesome!
that is awesome!!!!!!! I love the golf cart idea hahaha you’ll have to post pictures!
Ummm delicious salad??? can’t wait for the recipe it sounds DIVINE
That dressing sounds fantastic. I can’t wait until the recipe is published :-).
When you do health/fitness/food freelance work – Can you post links to your work on your blog?
Just an idea. I think folks would like to see.
I like your ideas for the golf cart. Think you should of went with it… or maybe that’s more of the post wedding party cart. 😉
Have a great time!
BTW, salad looks delish. Definitely yells Florida.
What a fun job to have – decorating a wedding golf cart! This will probably be your only chance decorating a golf cart in life, so I say, do it up big!!
Can’t wait to see that recipe!
Oh goodness when are we going to be able to see that recipe?! the homemade honey citrus goat cheese dressing sounds SO AMAZING!
You crack me up when you use words like “snazzy.” Especially when the words “strip club” follow.
Hot damn, that salad sounds tasty. I love the addition of berries to salads. Makes them so much more fun and definitely ups the nutrition factos. How cool to be in charge of the wedding golf cart. That’s definitely not something very common out here in Oregon. More like the wedding umbrella and poncho 🙂
Julie, you have to have to have to try Dannon Oikos Key Lime Pie Greek Yogurt! The flavor is to die for!
My boyfriend and I are huge chobani fans and when we started seeing the commercials on TV with Uncle Jesse (ahem I mean John Stamos) I figured we should try it. The strawberry and blueberry are great, but the key lime pie literally tastes like the filling of a key lime pie! It is a MUST try!
Goat cheese dressing? That sounds amazing, please post the recipe.
Mmmm that salad is my kinda salad! And a wedding golf cart is such a cute and fun idea! haha I like the empty cans hanging in the back.
LOL – your list of decorations is too funny! “…a snazzy strip club on wheels,” I love it. Plus I’ve never even hears of a Thunder and lighting machine!
The fog machine reminds me of one of my friends, in college he used to have “fog parties’ at his house which basically meant they’d set off 3 fog machines at once I’m his living room. It was hilarious and would get to the point where nobody could see a thing, and everyone would spill their beer and / or fall on the floor from laughing. The best was when someone brought ‘strawberry fog’ liquid for the machine. Classy! 😀
eh sometimes classy is overrated! Its more fun to not be classy sometimes! well maybe not at weddings…
that salad dressing sounds great. I just recently became addicted to goat cheese!
that salad looks and sounds so good! mmm goat cheese dressing! YUM!
Hahaha you could have really decked that golf cart out with the proper funds! I’m sure the bride will appreciate classy though
Wow, that salad is amazing. I wish fruit was in season here!!
Haha, good job on the golf cart! Super classy, obviously. You can design my wedding golf cart any day. I think anything goes as long as it fits the couples’ personality!
That salad looks delicious! For some reason berries have been really cheap up here recently and of course citrus is too this time of year so I might have to recreate this 🙂
Oh my gosh. That salad looks incredible! 🙂
Too funny! Unfortunately our brother-in-law would not allow anyone to TOUCH or put ANYTHING on his camero for he and my sister’s wedding. To ensure that we couldn’t decorate it they parked it at their wedding director’s house across the road where nobody knew it would be!! Otherwise it would have been quite like what you and Ryan had wanted 😉 hahaha
Ah this salad sounds amazing..strawberries and goat cheese pair so well together!
That salad looks amazing! Can’t wait for the dressing recipe!