Pacific Northwest Strawberry Goat Cheese Pine Nut Salad Recipes

Steps:

• Combine orange juice, oil, mustard and seasonings in the bottom of a large salad bowl. Whisk to blend.
• Top with salad greens, endive, strawberries, pine nuts and crumbled goats cheese.
• Toss and serve.

Steps:

• For dressing: Mix together oil, vinegar, shallot, syrup,lemon juice, salt and pepper until emulsified.
• To Complete the Salad: Toss together lettuces, pears, pecans, cheese and dressing.
• Serve immediately.
• For the Candied Pecans:.
• Stir together nuts, sugar, butter and salt in a heavy saucepan over medium heat, and cook, stirring constantly for 8 to 10 minutes or until sugar melts and turns golden brown.
• Spread mixture in a single layer on lightly greased waxed paper. Cool and break into pieces.

Steps:

• In small bowl, whisk together all vinaigrette ingredients. Can be made up to 3 days ahead.
• Cut 2 of the pears ito 1/2" pieces. Melt butter in heavy medium skillet over medium heat. Add chopped pears; sprinkle with 1/4 tsp pepper and 1/8 tsp salt. Cook 4-6 minutes or until golden brown and softened. Recipe can be made to this point up to 4 hours ahead. Let stand at room temperature.
• Place cooked pears in center of 8 salad plates. In large bowl, toss salad mix with vinaigrette. Place on top of pears; sprinkle with cheese and nuts. Slice remaining 2 pears; arrange over greeens.

Steps:

• In a large salad bowl, combine greens and onion. Sprinkle with blue cheese and pine nuts. Drizzle with vinaigrette; toss to coat.

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• Day (or about six hours) before:.
• In large saucepan, combine jello with boiling water, stirring until dissolved. Fold in strawberries with juice, drained pineapple, bananas and nuts.
• Pour 1/2 of mixture into 13x9" baking dish for 1st layer. Refrigerate until firm (about 90 minutes).
• Spread top evenly with sour cream. Gently spoon on rest of strawberry mixture and refrigerate. For best results, keep refrigerated until serving.
• When I was shopping for the ingredients for this dish I realized that you could probably use other combos of fruit and jello flavors - I think I'll experiment next time. It could also be made to fit any diet by using artificially sweetened fruit and low fat sour cream.