"I enjoy a salad that combines fruit and cheese to create a sweet and savoury dish (like fig and mozzarella or peaches and feta). Blue cheese is a bold ingredient that brings a fruity, spicy note that can be overpowering. It is the flavour-punch in this dish, but choose one that is quite mild so as not to dominate the more quietly spoken flavours of the pear and chestnuts. If you like your hands and don’t wish to slice them with burning chestnut shells, you can happily use walnuts instead. The sweetness of the pear in this salad is counterbalanced with a crisp, bitter green. I used dandelion, roughly sliced, but chicory would also work well."
Ingredients:
Several slices of crisp, fresh red pear
A chunk of mild blue cheese, crumbled
Enough bitter leaves like dandelion to sit nicely on the plate
A handful of roasted, shelled and peeled chestnuts (or lightly toasted walnuts)
Olive oil
Salt and pepper
Source, details, tips and full instruction at: simpleprovisions.com.au
