Shaved Broccoli Salad with Candied Bacon

Whole vegetable cooking is an outgrowth of the sustainable food movement. Cooks are now embracing using all parts of vegetables – roots, stalks, leaves and all.
Ingredients:
- For the salad
- 5-6 broccoli stalks and crowns
- 1/4 cup french feta
- 1 pack bacon
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup dried cranberries
- 1/4 cup hazelnuts For the dressing
- Juice from one lemon
- zest from one lemon
- 1/8 cup olive oil
- kosher salt to taste
- 1 tsp butter
Instructions
- Shave outer layer of broccoli
- Cut stems in half and shave them
- Bake bacon with brown sugar rubbed on each slice at 250 for one hour. Let cool and cut up
- Toss lemon juice, zest and olive oil together to dress salad
- Saute hazelnuts in a tsp of butter to toast
- Build salad with fresh broccoli florets, candied bacon, feta and hazelnuts