Spinach, blue cheese and pear salad

Ingredients

3 rinsed pears, cut into chunks
200g baby spinach
1/2 cup blue cheese
1/2 cup toasted walnuts
Lemon juice
4 tbsp olive oil
1/2 tsp honey
1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
Parmesan shavings

Directions

Splash the cut pears with lemon juice to prevent them browning.
Whisk together the olive oil, balsamic vinegar and honey to make a vinaigrette.
Season the vinaigrette, remembering to underseason if the cheese is salty.
Fold together all the ingredients except the parmesan and walnuts, which get scattered on when serving.

A Roquefort salad, without having to have the Roquefort. In Cambridge, Shopshire Blue (which is an orange cheese with blue veins) makes a great substitution.

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## Ingredients

- 3 rinsed pears, cut into chunks
- 200g baby spinach
- 1/2 cup blue cheese
- 1/2 cup toasted walnuts
- Lemon juice
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 tsp honey
- 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- Parmesan shavings

### Directions

- Splash the cut pears with lemon juice to prevent them browning.
- Whisk together the olive oil, balsamic vinegar and honey to make a vinaigrette.
- Season the vinaigrette, remembering to underseason if the cheese is salty.
- Fold together all the ingredients except the parmesan and walnuts, which get scattered on when serving.


 A Roquefort salad, without having to have the Roquefort. In Cambridge, Shopshire Blue (which is an orange cheese with blue veins) makes a great substitution.