Pear & Goat Cheese Salad

I've been in love with pears and goat cheese this winter. And now I'm here to share my recipe on how to make a simple pear and goat cheese salad. (Makes 2-3 servings)

You will need the following ingredients:

3 cups organic mixed greens
1 anjou pear thinly sliced
1/2 cup crumbled goat cheese
olive oil
balsamic vinegar
fresh cracked pepper
honey
toasted nuts (optional)

As simple as it will sound. You mix the greens with sliced pears in a large bowl. Crumble goat cheese over top. Drizzle with oil and vinegar as well as honey. Top with toasted nuts if you like. Serve.

Here's the salad without greens or nuts. Change it up however you desire.

Enjoy!

Vivian
from MayDayDesigns

Simple Potato Salad

Ingredients:
4 cups whole pearl/mini potatoes cooked diced with skin on
2 hardboiled eggs shelled diced
GF honey mustard
1 tbsp dried dill
1/2 tsp paprika or cayenne or fresh red thai chillies minced
1/2 tsp fresh ground black pepper
6 green olives pitted diced
Substitute olives with a large pickle for your preference.
Optional: 1/4 cup onion minced
Optional: 1 spring of green onion finely sliced

Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl. Add salt if you'd like. But the salad tastes good without. Add more honey mustard if you prefer more dressing.

Bacon Garlic Caesar Salad

Serves 2

Salad Ingredients:
2 heads of Roman Hearts roughly cut
6 slices turkey bacon, cooked till crispy and roughly chopped
1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese

Dressing Ingredients:
4 tbsp fresh lemon juice
Salt
Pepper
2 tbsp sour cream
1 tbsp Dijon mustard
1/2 tsp anchovy paste
2 cloves fresh garlic roughly chopped

Blend dressing ingredients in a food processor. Toss salad ingredients with dressing. Serve.

Tomatoless Greek Salad

This one is for Beau, he doesn't like tomatoes. But for those who are making this salad for a large crowd of people that are tomato lovers like myself. I would make it with whole cherry tomatoes and the non tomatoe lovers can pick them out. This recipe Serves 4

1 green pepper diced

1 red pepper diced

1 yellow pepper diced

1 red onion diced

1 english cucumber diced

1/4 cup feta cheese crumbled

1/2 cup whole kalamata olives pitted

1 garlic crushed garlic clove

3 tbsp dried oregano

3 tbsp fresh lemon juice

zest of 1 lemon

2 tbsp olive oil

fresh cracked black pepper

sea salt to taste

(If you want tomatoes in this recipe simply just add 1 pint of cherry tomatoes to the pepper & cucumber mixture)

In a large mixing bowl combine green, red, yellow peppers with cucumber. Set aside. In a smaller bowl combine red onion with oregano, lemon juice, lemon zest, black pepper and sea salt. Let the onions marinate for about an hour and add olive oil and mix well. 

Then pour the onion mixture into the peppers and cucumber bowl. Toss well and sprinkle with feta & olives. Add additional salt & pepper to taste.

Voila! Bon Appetit :)