Give this lovely spinach salad a quick toss and you are ready to enjoy this delicious any-time salad!

This bright and beautiful spinach salad combines baby spinach, mandarin oranges, chopped red onions, Gorgonzola cheese and nuts to make a delicious feast for your eyes and your palate.  Top it off with a creamy raspberry dressing and you have one delicious  salad!  This is not what I consider to be the traditional spinach salad recipe.  I’ll be sharing my traditional recipe in another post.  That recipe features spinach along with hard boiled eggs and crumbled bacon with a homemade dressing on top.  But this variation is certainly delicious.  It’s a beautiful and colorful salad too.  You can enjoy this salad any time of the year because all of the ingredients are available year around.  

The ingredients are simple:

• Baby Spinach
• Canned Mandarin Oranges ( drained)
• Chopped Red Onion
• 1 Container Gorgonzola Cheese
• Walnuts
• Creamy Raspberry Dressing (purchased)

 

Now for a word about the Gorgonzola cheese.  I don’t normally like Gorgonzola cheese or Blue cheese.  However, I find that the raspberry dressing and the mandarin oranges really complement the Gorgonzola cheese and it has a very mild flavor in this recipe.  I would recommend trying it with the Gorgonzola cheese and see what you think.  You could also  substitute crumbled feta or goat cheese . 

I like to use a large glass bowl for this salad because it really showcases the bright colors in this salad.