Pear Salad with blue cheese

Pear Salad with a stellar combination of flavours - pear, creamy blue cheese, walnuts, pepper rocket/arugula and honey mustard dressing.

Roasted Pear Salad With Endive, Blue Cheese, and Hazelnut

This hearty, sweet, and savory salad combines roasted pears with bitter endive, rich blue cheese, and toasted hazelnut. It's the perfect salad for either the autumn or wintry weather.

Healthy & Delicious: Mixed Greens with Pears, Pecans, Blue Cheese, and Honey Balsamic Dressing

If I had my druthers, salads would be made of nuts, cheese, and a fruity dressing with a few leaves of arugula sprinkled on top. Alas, those druthers miss the whole point of a salad, which "should" be a light, healthy meal. I'm not alone, though. Visit any restaurant, and you'll find salads packed with heavy (albeit delicious) add-ons, making them slightly less nutritious than a bag of Big Macs. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Kale, Apple, and Pancetta Salad

With slightly bitter kale and radicchio, crispy-salty pancetta, tart apples and sweet maple syrup, this hearty winter salad hits all the right taste buttons. It's also just a beautiful salad. Be sure your apples aren't too sour, especially if using Granny Smith—you'll need a little sweetness to balance out the tartness of the vinaigrette.

Apple Salad with Candied Walnuts and Cranberries

This Apple Salad is a celebration of textures and flavours! Crispy juicy apple, leafy salad, candied walnuts, plumped cranberries with a vinaigrette.

Arugula, Apple, and Pomegranate Salad with Cider-Honey Vinaigrette

This salad of peppery arugula, crisp apples, and juicy pomegranate seeds is adapted from Raising the Salad Bar by Catherine Walthers. It's perfect for autumn, and as pretty as it is delicious!

Harvest Cobb Salad with Roasted Squash and Apples - Striped Spatula

In a fall twist on a classic, this hearty Harvest Cobb Salad combines seasonal flavors, like apples, butternut squash, and pecans, with a maple-sweetened vinaigrette. Perfect for sharing with friends!

Plum, Date, Banana, and Maple-Bacon Salad

Mediocre ingredients and an overabundance of tart flavors give the dish a bad name, but with a few simple guidelines, you can start knocking fruit salad out of the park. So consider this recipe a template rather than a set of hard and fast rules. Once you start thinking about each ingredient's role, it's easy to adapt to whatever you have on hand.

Wheatberry and Watercress Salad With Bacon Vinaigrette

Rendered bacon fat becomes the base of a dressing for this hearty grain salad tossed with peppery watercress.

Classic Wedge Salad with Blue Cheese and Bacon

The Classic Wedge Salad, with crisp iceberg lettuce, blue cheese dressing, and crumbled bacon is a steakhouse starter that's easy to make at home!