Salad For A Dog Day Afternoon

• Main salad ingredients
• 2 bunches watercress, with hearty green leaves
• 4 endives
• 1 large red grapefruit
• 2 tablespoons sea salt or kosher salt
• Mustard Olive-oil dressing
• 1 teaspoon mustard, preferably Dijon-style
• 2 tablespoons olive oil, preferably organic extra virgin
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, with the "fine" setting.
• 1 large lemon, preferably juicy

1. Trim the ends of the watercress sprigs.
2. Soak the bunches of watercress in water salted with the sea salt or kosher salt for a half hour, rinsing them afterwards in cold filtered water.
3. Break off the individual endive leaves, and soak them in salted water as well, also for a half hour, rinsing them afterwards in cold filtered water as well.
4. Slice the grapefruit in half, carefully scoop out each half and cut into approximately 2" x 2" wedges, and drop into the bowl.
5. Mix thoroughly and then dress it with the mustard-olive oil dressing, stirring it in.
6. Mix the mustard and the olive oil together in a large bowl, and using a stainless steel whisk, whisk the emulsion.
7. Squeeze the lemon into the bowl, and continue whisking.
8. Mix the pepper into the dressing.

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Taken from food52.com/recipes/29107-salad-for-a-dog-day-afternoon (may not work)