Honey Mustard Dressed Greens With Apple And Pear Recipes

CRAB STUFFED PORTOBELLOS AND CITRUS-MUSTARD DRESSED GREENS

Steps:

• Heat a grill pan or large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Pour extra-virgin olive oil into a small dish. Using a pastry brush, coat mushroom caps with oil. Grill 10 minutes, until tender and season with grill seasoning blend.
• Meanwhile, preheat a medium skillet over medium to medium-high heat. Add remaining extra-virgin olive oil to pan -- left from brushing mushroom caps -- to skillet and combine with 2 tablespoons butter. Melt butter into oil and add bay leaf and chopped vegetables, season with salt and pepper and crab boil seasoning or, poultry seasoning and paprika. Saute until vegetables are tender, about 5 to 7 minutes. Add hot sauce to vegetables. Run your fingers through the crab to make sure there are no pieces of shell in the meat. Break up crabmeat with fingertips and mix into veggies. Butter toasted bread with remaining 1 tablespoon of diced butter. Add toast to veggies and moisten stuffing with chicken stock. Adjust seasonings. Top cooked portobello caps with stuffing. Garnish with chopped parsley and serve along side greens.
• Pour lettuce into a bowl. In a smaller bowl, combine lemon curd with vinegar and mustard using a whisk. Whisk in oil in a slow stream and season dressing with salt and pepper, to your taste.

APPLE AND ONION STUFFIN'

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Preheat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Melt 1 stick butter in the skillet. When the butter melts, add the celery, apples and onions. Season with salt, pepper and poultry seasoning. Cook until the vegetables and apples begin to soften, 5 to 6 minutes.
• Add the stuffing cubes to the pan and combine. Moisten the stuffing with the chicken stock until all of the bread is soft, but not wet. Let the stuffing cool either in the pan or in a bowl.
• For a stuffin' casserole: Brush a casserole dish with 1/4 stick butter. Add the stuffing mixture to the dish and dot the top with the remaining 1/4 stick butter. Bake until set and crisp on top, 15 to 20 minutes. Serve hot or at room temperature.
• For individual stuffin' muffins: Brush a 12-muffin tin with the remaining 1/2 stick of butter. Add the beaten egg to the cooled stuffing mixture. Using an ice cream scoop, fill and mound up the stuffing in the muffin tin. Bake until set and crisp on top, 10 to 15 minutes. Remove the stuffin' muffins to a platter and serve hot or at room temperature.

HONEY MUSTARD SABAYONE OVER THYME ROASTED PEARS

Steps:

• SABAYONE: Set up a saucepan with 2 inches water over medium-low heat so the water steadily simmers. Set up a large ice bath. In a stainless steel bowl that can fit over saucepan, whisk together egg yolks and sugar and whisk in remaining ingredients. Set bowl over double boiler and whisk constantly until light and frothy and doubled in size, about 6 minutes. Do not let bowl touch simmering water. If egg mixture gets too hot it will scramble the eggs and you'll have to start over, so move the bowl back and forth from the heat and use ice bath if necessary. Serve sabayone warm over roasted pears for a sweet and savory dessert.
• PEARS: Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Toss pears with thyme, oil and a little tiny bit of salt and pepper in a mixing bowl. Pour them out onto a sheet pan and roast until tender, about 40 minutes.

MIXED GREENS WITH HONEY MUSTARD DRESSING

Steps:

• Make dressing
• In a bowl whisk together dressing ingredients with salt and pepper to taste. Dressing may be made 1 day ahead and chilled, covered.
• In a bowl toss together greens and dressing.