I don't know what to call this salad, but it has all the things I love: toasted pecans, bacon, feta, pomegranate seeds, a sparkly champagne vin, so I hereby christen it the All the Things Salad! I made this not-so-recently for Thanksgiving and it was well-received so I sure hope you'll enjoy it as much as we did :) *Great thing about salads, pastas, any non-baked item as you know, is that you can vary the ingredients to suit your tastes or what you happen to have on hand, so mix it up!
Ingredients:
- arugula & baby spinach, about 8 cups
- seeds from 1/2 a pomegranate
- thinly sliced red pear, about 2 pears
- 1 cup crumbled feta
- 3/4 cup crumbled bacon
- 1 thinly sliced red onion (tip, raw onion can be sliced and soaked in cool water to take the sting out)
- 1 cup toasted pecans
- 3/4 - 1 cup dressing which can be adjusted to your liking (here's the jist: 1/4 cup olive oil, 1/4 cup champagne vinegar, 2T grainy dijon mustard, juice from 1/2 lemon, 1T honey, sea salt and pepper to taste... whisk all together)
Toss the greens, red onion, & feta in the dressing and gently add in the pom seeds, bacon and pecans. Gently toss again and plate with red pear as a garnish.
