Apple, Cabbage & Spinach Salad with Pecan

Ingredients
1/2 medium red cabbage, finely shredded
60g baby spinach leaves
1/2 small red onion, thinly sliced
2 Jazz apples
1/2 cup pecans, toasted
1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/4 cup white wine vinegar
2 tbs Dijon Mustard
1 garlic clove, crushed
1 tsp honey
parsley, to serve

1. Place cabbage, spinach & onion into a serving bowl and toss gently with your hands to combine.

2. Put oil, vinegar, mustard, garlic & honey into a screw-top jar, shake well to combine. Season.

3. Halve apples, remove core & slice very thinly. Add to salad with pecans, pour over some dressing and top with parsley leaves. Serve salad with remaining dressing.

GINGER SNAP APPLE PIE

serves 12

Peel and core apples.

Take 24 ginger snaps (1 3/4 cups crumbs), mash on some waxed paper with a rolling pin.
Add 2 cups finely crushed other biscuits (cinnamon crisps, NicMariee,  or Coffee Time).
Mix crumbs with 3/4 cup melted butter and plate around bottom and sides of a 9″ x 13″ buttered, ovenproof baking dish about 1.5″ deep.

Slice apples into wedges (12 cups) and put a solid layer over bottom of dish. Sprinkle more crumbs over apples then a little lemon juice and a little brown sugar and a little more butter.

Keep layering until apples finished. Add any left-over crumbs on top with a little more brown sugar and butter.

Bake in a slow oven 300 degree F for 25-30 mins or until apples are cooked.