What a fabulous dressing! I don't usually choose recipes with fewer than 100 ratings when I am cooking for guests, but this combination sounded pretty good, and made for a very tasty lunch side. I have not made homemade syrups before, and so I was skeptical whether there was enough juice in the berries to cook them, without adding water. Just to be safe I put in 3-4 tablespoons of water so nothing would scorch. Sure enough, as things heated up there was really plenty of juice, but to make this recipe again I would probably still start with a little water just because there is really not any liquid initially. As far as proportions, this recipe made probably four times more dressing than we needed, but that's okay since we can just refrigerate. I doubled both the amount of feta, and the toasted walnuts. I decided the extra feta cheese was great, but as far as the walnuts it would have been okay with just the 1/2 c. that is called for too. Also, this recipe calls for a small red onion, and if your grocery is like mine there are never any small onions, but don't use a whole large onion as that really would be overly strong. I wanted a little more veggie variety in the salad so I chopped in some green pepper. Think this would also be good as a fruited spinach salad with strawberries or peaches instead of extra veggies and feta. Another tip: I had a difficult time getting the raspberry juice through my sieve because there was so much pulp. I didn't have cheesecloth on hand

I'm embarrassed to admit that I forgot to put on the feta when serving this salad... but even so, my guests LOVED it and said it was the best dressing they had ever tasted. They were shocked to learn it was homemade. The only downside is the super long time it took to strain the raspberries (I also used frozen). Next time, I will buy some cheesecloth (I was using a strainer) and speed up the process.

This was delicious! Used frozen raspberries, as the freash ones didn't look too great, and it worked out fine. Also used mixed baby greens instead of the spinach, because that was what was freshest at the store. Be sure to toast the nuts, as the flavour is much better. Thanks for a super recipe.

Yum! Love this salad! Used pecans instead of walnuts since I had a bunch of them already, SO TASTY!

Awesome. The dressing was great. I used frozen berries instead of fresh because that's what I had on hand. It still turned out great, I love Feta cheese and the walnuts gave it a nice crunch. I will be using this again. Thanks

Can't review the dressing because I used another version from this site, but the salad itself was delicious. I mixed spinach with Boston Bibb lettuce and used a mix of toasted walnuts and pecans. The feta was a great addition and my company ended up picking on the salad until it disappeared. Thanks Christine!