Strawberry Spinach Salad with Cougar Gold
from WSU Creamery
For the dressing:
2 tablespoons sesame seeds
⅓ cup olive oil
⅓ cup red wine vinegar
½ teaspoon sugar
2 teaspoons minced green onion
½ teaspoon paprika
¼ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
For the salad:
1 to 1½ pounds fresh spinach
2 cups fresh strawberries, hulled and halved
1 cup crumbled Cougar Gold®
Make the dressing: In small skillet over medium heat, stir sesame seeds until golden brown; set … » More …
The case started a few years ago when a farmer approached seed pathologist Lindsey du Toit at WSU Mount Vernon wondering what was damaging his spinach seed crop out in the field. He had planted on clean ground that hadn’t had spinach before. He wondered if maybe the stock seed had a problem.
“It didn’t make sense,” says du Toit, explaining that what happened to the plants didn’t fit with the known diseases. At the time, du Toit and one of her graduate students were looking at fungal pathogens in the seeds of spinach plants. About 75 percent of the spinach seed grown in … » More …