What's for dinner when it's 95 degrees out....?

Well, we can't rememeber an early April when we have had a run of 95 degree days...but, it seems to be this year! The year of "snowmageddon" here in Northern VA and now the 90 degree April!

Matt loves his grill, and we use it mostly every night when Spring starts to cook up some fresh grilled chicken and fresh vegetables, and even recently started making our own rustic pizza flatbreads on it...but it's just TOO hot to grill this week..so what's for dinner when it's 95 degrees out?

...We saw this salad and made it (thanks Paula Deen!) for our dinner tonight! It's really filling if you add some grilled chicken or salmon to it! Here's the recipe!

Dressing Ingredients:

3 tbs Rice Wine Vinegar

1 tbs Dijon Mustard

1/3 Cup Olive Oil

1/2 tsp salt

Salad Ingredients:

3 Peaches, pits removed & cut into wedges

1 tbs Olive Oil

1 tsp salt

5 cups mesclun greens mix

1/2 cup chopped pecans (see my tip below - I candied them first)

1/3 cup crumbled feta cheese

Directions:

Dressing:

Combine Rice Wine Vinegar and Dijon in small bowl

Slowly pour the Olive Oil into the bowl whisking constantly to emulsify

Season with salt

(We added a couple pinches of sugar too to the dressing!)

Salad:

Preheat a grill pan to medium-high heat

Place peach wedges in a bowl and drizzle with olive oil

Season them with sald and toss well until coated

Place on the grill pan and cook for 1-2 mins per side (to heat and get grill marks)

Place mesclun mix a large salad bowl

Add Chopped pecans, Feta, and cooked peaches

Drizzle salad with prepared dressing

Toss well

ENJOY!

Tips from us:

- If the dressing tastes too bitter for you, add some pinches of sugar to dressing and whisk well

- Mix the peaches into the salad bowl when they are still warm, so it melts some of the feta and makes contrasts in the salad - it's a warm/cold salad!
-I candied the pecans in a tsp. of butter and a 1tsp of light brown sugar melted in a saucepan, then cooled, so great!

...and THAT'S what's for dinner on a 95 degree day!

- The Bogerts