This simple salad, made with baby greens, blue cheese, cranberries, and pecans, is elegant and delicious. It's the perfect addition to any holiday menu, but it's also a fabulous way to liven up your dinner table any night of the week!

Serves: 6

Ingredients
1 bag baby greens
1 small romaine heart, cut into bite-size pieces
1/2 cup pecans, toasted and coarsely chopped
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1/2 cup (about 4 ounces) crumbled blue cheese 
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar

Directions
1. Place all greens in a large bowl.
2. Add pecans, dried cranberries, and blue cheese.
3. Drizzle olive oil over salad, and sprinkle generously with salt and pepper; toss to coat. Taste for seasoning, and adjust if necessary.
4. Add balsamic vinegar and toss to coat again. Serve.

Excerpted from Perfect Recipes for Having People Over, by Pamela Anderson (Houghton Mifflin, 2005). Photograph copyright (c) 2005 by Rita Maas.

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-- Sara Hennessey

Oct 02, 2009

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