Poached Pear Salad

By Howie

Ingredients

• Salad:
• 1 pear, peeled and quartered
• 8 oz mixed greens
• 1 oz walnuts
• 1 oz crumbled blue cheese
• 4 oz walnut vinaigrette
• Poaching Liquid:
• 2 cups port wine
• 1/2 cup brandy
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 6 each cloves
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 2 cups water
• Walnut Vinaigrette:
• 1/2 cup lemon juice
• 1/4 cup dijon mustard
• 1 cup walnut oil
• 2 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp honey
• 1 cup vegetable oil

Preparation

Step 1

Salad:

1) Combine poaching liquid ingredients. Bring to a boil. Add pear quarters and simmer for 20 minutes until soft. Remove pears and reserve liquid.

Vinaigrette:

1)Combine lemon juice, mustard, honey, sugar and slowly add oils while mixing.

* Serve walnuts next to greens, poached pears sliced in fours and spread out fan-like, blue cheese next
* Greens take up 2/3 of plate
* Freeze poaching liquid for a sorbet