This simple salad was the hit of my book club meeting…….
Start with a bag of fresh rinsed greens
Peel and thinly slice two pears
In the meantime, toast a handful of walnuts in a small pan until they start to brown a little
Put the greens in a large bowl
add the pears, walnuts & a generous sprinkling of gorgonzola cheese
then make a simple vinaigrette by whisking the following together:
3 T walnut oil
3 T canola oil
3 T white wine vinegar
1 t dijon mustard
drop or two of honey, pinch of salt and a grind or two of black pepper
Toss the dressing to taste with the salad…
easy peasy..
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I don’t care for pears much but this salad with them looks delicious. I’ll have to give it a try. Thanks!!
Easy peasy and delicious!! I have a similar recipe, and add black berries when they’re in season. Yummy!
Hi Pondside,
I’ll bet that the berries are wonderful. I’ve also used strawberries in this with goat cheese instead of blue..thanks for stopping by!
A very good “P”…YUM…this is right up my alley..looks so good to me! Come say hi 😀
Oh my goodness that pear salad looks delicious. Great P post
This looks so delicious!!
I’ll be right over for a taste of that wonderful pear salad. Thanks for the recipe.
Love this combination of pear, walnuts & blue cheese! I like to add dried cranberries too~yummy P post 🙂
Oh yum! That looks beautiful and delicious! I’ll have to make one very, very soon 🙂 .
Blessings,
Catherine
This looks so good. I love the idea of the sweet pear with the cheese.
looks so tasty 😀
Looks D-lish! I swear I could even smell it through my ‘puter!
xoxo,
Kim
Oh my goodness! That looks divine! I LOVE ripe pears so adding them to salad sounds like an excellent idea!
Thanks for visiting my little corner of the world and leaving a comment! 🙂
Hi RMW, dropping by to check out your P for today. One question: did you season the walnuts with something? Looks like it in the picture but wasn’t sure if that was salt or yummy sugar.
Thanks for dropping by today. The migraines are coming and going a lot lately. Time to make a change in my Diet Coke habits. The journey begins either tomorrow or Saturday. God help me.
No email attached to your comment and no contact here either. Bummer.
Hi Cheryl,
I didn’t season the walnuts at all, just dry roasted in a nonstick pan.
Hey, I need a “contact me” button, don’t I? Duh. I’ll get on that. Thanks for stopping by. I gave up diet coke for the most part a few years ago and I do feel better..hang in there!
Wow great pictures!
That sounds like a great salad! Thanks for sharing the recipe, and thanks for visiting Life is Good.
This looks delicious. Do you remember the “pear salad” that was popular in the 60’s? Half of a canned pear (in heavy syrup) on an iceberg lettuce leaf with sweetened mayo in the center? This sounds SO much better 🙂 Kathy
That is my absolutly favorite salad but I use apples instead and have this wonderful rasberry dressing.I will have to tr it with pears, we have a pear tree at our farm and I hope that we have lots of pears this year. I really like pear perserves!
OMG…that salad looks delish!! How did you get the pictures so life like, I think all I need is a fork!
Thanks for stopping by the farmhouse for a visit. We love having company.
Have a great week!
OH Man looks like the one they sell at Nordstroms. DELISH
Yum! I’ve had something like that before but it had balsamic vinegar, my favorite!
I don’t like cheese in my salad but this looks good
thanks for your visit to my alphabe-thursday
Yum! This looks amazing! I will have to try it! My favorite house is the last one on my post, too– it has tons of potential, I think. Good luck with your beach house search. Which part of the Oregon coast are you looking at?
Hi Amanda,
I’m not sure yet where I will end up. At the end of the month, I’m going to look around at the Astoria area, but I think I really want to be on or near the ocean. Garibaldi is nice, decisions, decisions..
Do you have any suggestions?
Thank you, thank you! I was trying to think of a better side dish for dinner then green beans…I have all the stuff for this… and it is now on the menu!
Thanks for this delicious stop on my little journey through Alphabe-Thursday’s letter “P”.
A+
This looks scrumptious to a teacher who stayed late at school to write her p post and skipped dinner…sigh. I am going to make it this week-end. Very yummy post!!!
oh that looks so yummy!
Oh, the pear salad is surely delicious — thanks for the idea! 🙂
Thanks also for visiting my blog. You know — I also had a crush on Little Joe. 🙂
Greetings from Munich,
Birgit
this looks so yummy! i still have a few jars of pears i canned last fall–this would be the perfect foil for them…i’m hungry!
That does sound yummy!
Looks delicious – can almost taste it!
it looks amazing!
Your photos are great and the salad looks so delightful and delicious. I’m off to catch up on your dream home posts.