Fig Salad with Spinach, Pecans and Pomegranate

Andrea made this recipe for a dinner her class hosted. I liked it so much, I keep asking for the recipe.

This makes a lot of salad dressing, so make it ahead and just use as needed.

Rye Bagel Chips

Instead of buying our normal bagel chips, we attempted to make our own. We made our simple bagel recipe replacing the whole wheat flour with rye flour. We should have added some molasses for color. Then we cut the cooked bagels into thin slices and dehydrated. Easy! The hard part is keeping the kids away from snacking on them.

Breakfast Sausage, Boerewors Version

You do not want these dry, but they can be very greasy depending on what meat you use. Use lower fat meats if possible. Or, drain meat well before serving.

Boerewors

We took this recipe to the butchers, and he custom made this sausage for us. It is a drier sausage, but so good. (It should be a moist sausage, so it was not exactly right)

Unfortunately, he did not tell us what meats he used, though we asked him to keep notes so we could duplicate it. He did record the spices. When we try this again, I think we will omit the bacon and just use fattier pieces of pork.