Stacked Pear Salads

Shared by a friend, from a magazine ~ when I saw it, I knew I wanted to make it!




This one is fun because you can play around with it by swapping out the various ingredients with whatever combinations sounds good to you.





The wow factor comes from slicing the upright pears horizontally; these pears were small so I sliced them into thirds; if you use larger pears you could slice into fourths.




The greens, cheese and nuts are tossed with a mild vinaigrette (I used raspberry vinaigrette) which holds the pear slices together when the pear is reassembled.

The original recipe called for blue cheese, which would be delicious ~ but since we're watching the fat I substituted the blue cheese with reduced fat Feta cheese.




After assembling, honey is drizzled over the pear. I placed each pear on an organic, non-sprayed grape leaf from the garden.





If you try this recipe, I hope you love it!





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