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Prep
Difficulty
Easy
Time
Estimate
30 mins
Prepare the Pecan Crackers first. While the bake, make the pate. They can both be made in advance as well. As they cook & bake, prepare the salad ingredients. When you are ready to serve, toss the salad.
Pecan meal easily becomes crispy, delightful crackers. Add extra seeds and flavors as you like. If the dough seems to fall apart, just press and piece it together, cut into crackers and then bake them up. If you do not have pecan meal, blend up about 2 cups of whole pecans in a food processor until the mixture is crumbly. Do not blend too long or the oils will release and it will eventually turn into pecan butter.
There are pate lovers and pate haters. I am a lover. My husband is a hater. But, I may convert him, because apparently Liverwurst (aka poor man’s pate) was his first food as a baby when he swiped a scoop of it off the table and slurped it down happily. Our simple blend of mushrooms, onions & chicken livers made me swoon with joy. He tried it and claimed to ‘not hate it’. What amazes me about pate is how it is cheap and quick to make. Poor guy, marrying me means there may just be a lot more pate in his future.
Spinach is topped with creamy avocados, crunchy cauliflower, sweet pears, toasty almonds for a touch of protein, and drizzled with a lemon-garlic dressing. In the midst of winter this will awaken your taste buds, while giving you a nourishing burst of freshness.
