Perfect dinner salad – Spinach, Pear and Blue Cheese Salad!
Fall is in full swing here. The temperatures have dropped. The leaves are changing and pumpkins are everywhere you look. I’m all ready to dive into pasta dishes and soups. However, I still want a salad. The spinach, pear and blue cheese salad is a great fall salad.
This is as simple as simple can be…just fresh baby spinach, a quick homemade blue cheese dressing, sliced pears and a few candied pecans!
Fresh spinach salad with pears and blue cheese.
In a bowl, combine cream and 2 Tablespoons blue cheese. Mash blue cheese into cream. Set aside.
Place 1 cup spinach on 4 plates.
Drizzle with blue cheese mixture.
Divide pear slices between each plate.
Sprinkle remaining blue cheese over salads.
Sprinkle candied pecans on salads.
What a beautiful taste combination and so perfect for fall. Love apples paired with blue cheese! Thanks for sharing!
Blue cheese tastes so yummy with so many fruits!
this simple salad sounds just about perfect for lunch!
Angels are singing right now, pears and blue cheese are heaven together! This salad is wonderful and perfect now that pear season is here. Delicious! Take care.
This is salad perfection. There is no better combination than pears and blue cheese!
Love Fall and all the colours of the leaves and the cooler temps. I also love a good salad and the ingredients in this one are totally calling my name! We just picked up a yummy creamy blue cheese and this salad would be a perfect way to use some of it 🙂 Can’t wait to try!
Wonderful looking delicious and healthy salad, Kathy. I generally avoid blue cheese, but after looking at this recipe, I won’t mind to eat it. Love how simple it is.
Pear and blue cheese go hand in hand, if you add spinach and a lovely touch of crunch with the candied pecans you have a great dish. Love it!
I can eat just the sliced pear with blue cheese. Such a great combination.
So simple and so delicious, I love this kind of salad!
Fall is definitely here and I’m not complaining about the cooler fall temps! What a fun salad, it’s one of those easy but still fancy salads, like the ones you’d serve to company. And they’d be really impressed!!!
Perfect for company. In the summer I often eat salad as my main meal, but the rest of the year salads are a side dish with a heartier meal.
Oh, this sounds like an amazing lunch idea! In fact, I have some extra blue cheese in the fridge that I need to eat. Now I just need to pick up some pears and spinach, and I’ll be all set. Yum!!
It’s a perfect salad for lunch!
Ahh, this sounds so good – I cannot think of a better combination for a salad than this. With some toasty pecans… Yum!!! Beautiful photos as well.
The pecans add just the perfect amount of crunch.
So easy and such a great combination Kathy!
Some salads are best with just simple ingredients.
I went to an event recently where they served this salad but also added cranberries – it was really great! Looking forward to trying your version, Kathy. I’m envious of your fall description – no let up in the heat here – in the 90s this weekend!
Cranberries would be lovely sprinkled on top. I was at a soccer tournament this past weekend and the temps were in the 80s. It was wonderful, especially since it was 45 and rainy back home! A little change of any weather is always nice.