I made this one up awhile back as a tasty breakfast food. I have a problem with breakfast foods in that most of them are sweet and/or warm to an extent that makes me just want to go back to bed. Anyway, this one’s best with chilled apples, and the lemon juice adds a good bit of zing, as well!

Apple nut salad

Ingredients:

2 to 10 apples. Go crazy if you want.
1/8 to 1/4 a cup of almond slivers
1 Tbsp walnut or almond oil — it’s counter–intuitive, but I prefer walnut oil
1 Tbsp brown sugar
1 tsp. lemon juice

1. Cut Granny Smith apples into small cubes, about 1/2″ each. Pour Lemon juice over apples, and stir them so that the lemon juice coats them amply.
2. In a frying pan, heat up walnut or almond oil. Roast almond slivers in it until they turn a light brown, sprinkling in brown sugar an allowing it to slightly caramelize. When these are finally done, take them off the heat and let them cool for a few minutes, then stir them into the apples. This is ready to serve!
3. If it doesn’t all get eaten, it keeps in the fridge pretty well. Just add extra lemon juice if you are worried that the apples will turn brown.

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