Valentine Salad with Chocolate Vinaigrette

Ingredients:

200 g fresh mozzarella cheese, diced
1 American lettuce, chopped
1 red apple, diced
2 slices bread, diced
2 garlic cloves, minced
½ red onion, shredded
Vegetable oil and butter

Vinaigrette:
70 g bittersweet chocolate, chopped
4 oz olive oil
2 lemons, their juice
Salt and pepper

Preparing:

Fry the bread cubes with garlic in butter.
Place in the oven to roast well.
Mix all ingredients together.

Vinaigrette:
Melt
the chocolate with half the oil, stirring constantly.
Transfer to a cold bowl and mix with remaining ingredients.

Bathe
salad with the vinaigrette and serve.

Apple and Raisins Light Salad for Christmas

Ingredients:

4 cups shredded lettuce
4 apples, peeled and diced
1 cup cheese, diced
½ cup raisins
½ cup plain yogurt
¼ cup light mayonnaise
2 celery stalks, chopped
6 tbsp granulated diet sugar
½ tsp garlic, minced

Preparing:

Mix the yogurt with the mayonnaise, sugar and garlic.
Refrigerate until serving time.

Combine
the lettuce with apples, raisins, celery and cheese.
Bathe the salad with the yogurt mixture and serve.

Apple and Orange Christmas Punch

Ingredients:

4 cups apple juiceApple and Orange Christmas Punch
2 cups orange juice
2 cups cranberry juice
4 cloves
3 cinnamon sticks
1 orange, sliced

Preparing:

Heat all ingredients, except orange slices, in a saucepan.
Reduce heat when it boils and cook for 10 more minutes.

Refrigerate for 1 hour.
Heat again, garnish with orange slices and serve.