Fruited Rice Salad

Ingredients

• For the dressing
• ¹/₄ cup extra virgin olive oil
  
• ¹/₈ cup champagne vinegar
  
• ¹/₄ cup fresh-squeezed orange juice
  
• ¹/₄ teaspoon kosher salt
  

• For the salad
• 4 cups cooked brown rice (I like short grain the best), room temperature or slightly warm, but not cold or super hot
  
• 1 cup diced red onion
  
• 1 ¹/₂ cups dried cranberries or fresh pomegranate arils, or a mixture of both
  
• 1 cup chopped toasted pecans (or crumbled in your hand if you're lazy like me)
  
• 4 tablespoons chopped flat leaf (Italian) parsley, and maybe some mint, too, if you like mint in your food