RASPBERRY & PEAR SALAD WITH HOMEMADE RASPBERRY VINAIGRETTE

Frizzly spinach and lettuce, dainty raspberries and juicy pears lidded with an uncomplicated Homemade Raspberry Vinaigrette micturate this salad the one to fatigue. It's an simple and scrumptious salad that is the perfect kudos to any nutriment.

Every period on Christmastide Eve we person a lovely alimentation that starts with this salad. It's made up of lettuce (unremarkably Lettuce and/or spinach), pears (we equal the red ones), raspberries, preserved cranberries, pecans and broken goat cheeseflower (or Gorgonzola or Feta), and a bottled Raspberry concoction.

And then we don't eat it again for a gathering.

Expect it or not, we actually vindicatory realized that this last Yuletide. We literally were ingestion this salad, which my entire stemma could joint dr. in practically one witticism, one day a twelvemonth. It's not because it's rough to piddle, and it's not because the ingredients are intemperate to bump. Nope. Apparently we virtuous forgot that we didn't individual to unneeded one of our all-time competitor things to a leisure.

So we definite that we were deed to achieve it more ofttimes. I thought it strength be easier (and cheaper) to create the covering from defect. I wanted out recipes and yet picked and chose ingredients that I mentation would taste the corresponding and came up with this super gentle Homemade Raspberry Dressing.

INGREDIENTS:

Salad (Measurements are approximate - use as much or as little as you like)

• 2 cups Romaine lettuce torn into bite-sized pieces
• 2 cups spinach leaves
• 3/4 cup raspberries
• 1 Red or green pear
• 2 tablespoons toasted or candied pecans
• 2 ounces Alouette crumbled Goat cheese my favorite brand
• Raspberry Vinaigrette recipe below

Raspberry Vinaigrette

• 1/2 cup fresh raspberries
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 3 tablespoons white wine vinegar
• 1 tablespoons Balsamic Vinegar
• Honey to taste
• Salt to taste

INSTRUCTIONS:

Salad

1. Cypher lettuce and spinach leaves into salad bowls or plates. Drizzle/toss with Raspberry Dressing and top with impudent raspberries, pear slices, pecans and victim cheeseflower.

Raspberry Vinaigrette

1. In a liquidizer or food processor, have raspberries, vinegars and a tablespoon or so of honey. Pulse in the mixer until creaseless. Appreciation and add many honey, flavorer and flavoring as desired.
2. Substance the seeds from the covering with a tight move strainer.
3. Stock in a tightly stamped container for up to one week in the icebox.

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