Center Stage Restaurant's Rotisserie Chicken Tacos and Vinaigrette For Green Salad

This weekend we have family in town visiting for a long Halloween weekend.  We are proceeding to eat our way through northern Colorado and we are loving every minute (and meal) of it!

Their arrival night here we took them to our new golf course and Colorado's first TPC course and clubhouse.  Their breakout restaurant Center Stage is so, so, so good!!!  If you are ever in "NoCo", you must stop by and enjoy one of their incredible meals.

I am in love with their Rotisserie Chicken Tacos, but more than that, I am really over the top in love with the side salad that comes with it.  My sister-in-law and I could not stop talking about the vinaigrette dressing on this salad and were on a mission to find or recreate it.

Today we all went to Ya Ya Farm and Orchard in Longmont.  We have been here a few times, and every time I come, I never want to leave.  We took family photos, ate caramel apples, fed carrots to their beautiful horses, and took home a dozen of Ya Ya's famous apple cider donuts!

I always know when my husband has been surfing on the internet and shopping for new items...his new found ecommerce sites start mystically showing up on my Pinterest pages?!?!

He recently found Dr. Squatch Men's Natural Soap.  Their October featured soap is Drunk'n Pumpkin and it smells amazing!! (I'm thinking I may have to steal it for myself)...

Okay, back to our Vinaigrette...

We think Center Stage's dressing is very close to Ina Garten's "Vinaigrette For Green Salad", so give it a try, eat your greens and stay healthy and sparkly...or just be a Drunk'n Pumkin tonight.

Vinaigrette For Green Salad

Courtesy of Ina Garten

1 tsp Dijon mustard

1 tsp minced fresh garlic

3 Tbl champagne vinegar

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

1/2 cup good olive oil

Salad greens or mesclun mix

In a small bowl, whisk together the mustard, garlic, vinegar, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper.  While whisking slowly add the olive oil until the vinaigrette is emulsified.

Place the salad greens in a medium bowl and add enough dressing to moisten.  Sprinkle with a little extra salt and pepper, if desired and serve immediately. 

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