Warm Cheese, Bacon, and Pear Salad

Ingredients

• Olive oil

  Salad or cooking

  12 tsp or 54g

• Vinegar

  Distilled

  ¼ cup or 60g

• Salt

  Table

  ½ tsp or 3g

• Pepper

  Spices, black

  ⅛ tsp or 0.3g

• Bacon

  Raw, cured pork

  6 oz or 170g

• Pears

  Raw

  2 cup, slices or 280g

• Lettuce

  Romaine or cos, raw

  8 cup shredded or 376g

• Spinach

  Raw

  1 bunch or 340g

• Blue cheese

  4 oz or 113g

Directions

1. Prepare a vinaigrette by mixing together the olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper. Set aside to let the flavors blend.
2. Set a large frying pan over medium heat. Cut the bacon into 1 inch slices and put into the hot frying pan. Sauté the bacon pieces until crisp.
3. Remove bacon and place on paper towels to drain. Drain all but 1 tbsp bacon grease from frying pan.
4. Core the pears and then cut into 1/2 inch circular slices. Sauté pears in remaining bacon grease over medium high heat turning once, until edges are slightly browned. Remove from the pan let drain on paper towels.
5. Spread greens over a large platter and drizzle with 1/2 of the vinaigrette dressing. Layer the pear slices over the greens. Top with bacon pieces. Crumble the blue cheese over the salad. Drizzle with remaining dressing and serve.

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