Mesclun, Fruit and Castello Cheese Salad

Lynn's picture
Submitted by Lynn on Sat, 02/11/2006 - 12:58pm.

Summary

Yield
Prep Time15 minutes
RecipesSalads

Description

Ingredients

  • One bag mesclun salad mix
  • One ripe fresh pear
  • One fresh ruby red grapefruit, or water-canned citrus segments such as mandarin orange
  • 2oz (a good sized chunk) Blue Castello cheese or other mellow, flavorful softer blue cheese
  • 1c raw pecans
  • Optional but good: Sweet red or Vidalia-style onions, cut in slices and divided into rings; dried cranberries; fresh avocado ch
  • One bag mesclun salad mix
  • One ripe fresh pear
  • One fresh ruby red grapefruit, or water-canned citrus segments such as mandarin orange
  • 2oz (a good sized chunk) Blue Castello cheese or other mellow, flavorful softer blue cheese
  • 1c raw pecans
  • Optional but good: Sweet red or Vidalia-style onions, cut in slices and divided into rings; dried cranberries; fresh avocado ch

Instructions

Toast the pecans in a dry skillet until they start to emit a wonderful fragrance that makes you want to eat them on the spot. Resist, take them off the heat and chop them roughly instead. OK, eat one or two but don't get carried away.

Core the pear and cut into bite-sized chunks. Cut the peel off the grapefruit and cut into segments, avoiding the white dividing membranes.

Empty the mesclun salad mix into a large bowl. Add the other ingredients and dress with JJ's Favorite Vinaigrette, but not too much. Toss well. Eat immediately; does not keep well.

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Warning!

Submitted by lgunnoe on Sat, 02/18/2006 - 11:27am.

Do NOT think you're going to get a head-of-the-game and toast your pecans the evening before. What will happen, in reality, is that you, and everyone in the household will take "just a couple" and when you look in the bowl the next afternoon...you won't have enough pecans for your salad!

Trust me...I have experience! Laughing out loud

Blessings,
Lenora
"...if woman's work is never done, why bother about how much of it [isn't] getting done at any given moment?"
~ Claire Fraser in The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon

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