BaconSlut's Slutty Chicken Salad With Maple-Mustard Vinaigrette

The salad ingredients are just the stuff I lob into a bowl.  The dressing comes from the book "Savoring The Seasons Of The Northern Heartland", authored by local horz Beth Dooley and Lucia Watson.  This recipe is a nummy way to use up leftover roasted chicken or turkey. 

To taste, toss the following in a bowl:

*cooked turkey or chicken (preferably cooked skin on and bone in), chopped
*chopped celery
*1 part tart apple (Granny Smith) to one part sweet apple (Honeycrisp or Sweetango), chopped and with skins on.
*well-peppered, crisp thick-cut bacon, crumbled
*chunks of aged white cheddar cheese
*freshly ground black pepper
(I don't add salt on account of the previously seasoned poultry, cheese and bacon.)


The dressing that, along with the previous ingredients, will get you SO LAID!  (Also great as a basting sauce for pork, poultry or salmon.)  If possible, make this a day or two prior to using to allow the flavors to groove.

1/3 cup apple cider vinegar (Spectrum Organic unfiltered is the bomb!)
3 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
2 shallots, peeled and diced
1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1 tablespoon smooth Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon coarse mustard
2/3 cup maple syrup (the real stuff, horz, none of that Log Cabin crap!)
1 cup vegetable oil (canola oil doesn't work well)

Put all the ingredients, except the oil, into a blender.  Blend on high, then pour in the oil in a slow stream and process  until thick.