Goat Cheese - Round 2

Due to my overwhelming obsession with goat cheese, I knew that today's lunch needed to incorporate it somehow.  Yesterday's lunch is going to be hard to beat, I mean we're talking roasted vegetables & goat cheese pizza.  Drool.  But, never one to back down from a challenge (even if it's only from myself) I'm going to rock lunch 2 days in a row!
How you ask?  By jazzing up a spinach salad of course!  Goat cheese, Mandarin oranges, cranberries and walnuts are going to take centre stage in this vegetarian delight.   If Christmas was a salad, I'm pretty sure this would be it.  Now go on and enjoy eating your way through your daily quota of fruits and vegetables.  I know, I know, I make life easy for you.  Just remember Christmas is around the corner and I have an adoration for all things sparkly!
Enjoy!

Mandarin & Spinach Salad w/ Goat Cheese, Dried Cranberries and Walnuts

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups spinach, packed
1 mandarin orange, peeled & segmented
2 Tbsp goat cheese, crumbled
1 1/2 Tbsp dried cranberries
1 Tbsp walnuts, chopped
1 Tbsp olive oil
1 Tbsp orange juice
1/2 tsp honey
1/2 tsp dijon mustard

Method:

In small bowl combine oil, orange juice, honey and mustard. Whisk.  Set aside.
To assemble salad:  combine spinach and oranges.  Toss with dressing (as much as desired.)  Top with cheese, cranberries and nuts.
Enjoy!

Serves 1

***Add a cooked chicken breast marinated and baked in the same dressing and you've now got dinner!