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Default Warm Ham, Onion, Goat Cheese Salad

I made this up for myself last week and it was delicious - will be
making it again tonight.

Salad greens in a dinner-salad-sized bowl.

Cut up an onion, cook on low-to-medium heat in olive oil and garlic to
caramelize. I prefer fairly big pieces of onion, larger than a typical
dice. I use frozen cubes of crushed garlic, two cubes per onion, and a
generous amount of olive oil as it will become part of the salad
dressing later on.

When onion is mostly done (about 15 minutes), add small pieces of cooked
ham, cook another five minutes. Add black pepper to taste here if you
wish, or salt, although I cannot see the need for salt. I used deli
"honey maple" ham we buy at Whole Foods and use in the kids' lunches,
but any sort of leftover cooked ham would do.

Warm some goat cheese (toaster oven or microwave).

Add the ham and onion mixture on top of your salad greens, add the goat
cheese on top of that, dress as you like - I use red wine vinegar and
olive oil, plus fresh black pepper.

You could eat it as is or do what I do, which is stir it up a bit first
to get the goat cheese and onion mixture to coat the greens. Either
way, it's absolutely delicious.

-S-