A simple salad made with endive lettuce, blood oranges, Gorgonzola with a blood orange vinaigrette.
Yesterday I had the honor of being the Godmother to my beautiful niece, Mia Rose. After the church, there was a reception dinner where I totally indulged on some not-so-light dishes and of course, cake.
I need to brag about this cake for a minute because my very talented aunt made this, although my iPhone really doesn’t do it justice… So pretty you almost don’t want to eat it!
This morning I ran 2 miles and after my run I did some grocery shopping (best time to go food shopping BTW, I always make the best choices after working out) and found these beautiful blood oranges. I love the color of blood oranges and I seldom see them, so a salad is today’s light lunch.
This is also great with goat cheese in place of gorgonzola, and you can use raspberries or strawberries in place of the oranges.
Blood Orange Endive Salad
Ingredients
- 1 head endive
- 1 blood orange
- 1 tbsp crumbled gorgonzola
For the vinaigrette:
- 1 tbsp fresh squeezed blood orange juice
- 1 tsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 tsp white balsamic
- salt and fresh pepper to taste
Instructions
- Peel the orange and cut into sections.
- Remove the outer leaves of the endive and fan them on the plate.
- Chop the remaining smaller leaves and place them in the center of the plate.
- Top with crumbled cheese.
- Combine the vinaigrette ingredients and whisk; drizzle over salad.
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Gina – that Christening Cake is just gorgeous, amazing, beautiful. I'm so impressed. I've never seen anything like it. Congrats to your Aunt and congratulations to your family.
Oh my gosh – that cake is gorgeous!
That cake is beautiful – congratulations to your niece!
Blood oranges are so stunning aren't they? Love this salad!!
Look absolutely delicious!!
I LOVE your site, and your recipes. I have to say that cake your aunt made is over the top gorgeous!! Amazing! I think even your skinny taste viewers would love to know how she made it, just for the sheer sake of seeing how a work of art like that is put together. If she is not a professional baker she needs to go into the business.
I'll let her know! She should start a blog, right?!
Such a pretty salad! Endives always sound so fancy 🙂
That cake is beautiful!
This salad is SO pretty! I wish I had blood oranges around here, is there possibly a substitue?
Regular oranges would work! Mandarin oranges, or even grapefruit.
This looks really tasty! My mind is spinning furiously – I don't have endive or blood oranges but I DO have arugula and oranges. I don't have gorgonzola but I do have laughing cow.
Valerie
Wow! That cake is so amazing! Your aunt is extremely talented.