8 pears blue nuts Recipes

blue cheese, crumbled, divided, cream cheese, at room temperature, low-fat milk , more if required, mesclun or 6 cups other mixed salad greens, firm ripe pears or 3 apples, unpeeled, nuts, toasted and coarsely chopped, fresh ground black pepper

unsalted butter, firm but ripe bosc pears or other pears, peeled, halved lengthwise, cored, mild honey (such as orange blossom or clover), artisanal cheese (such as point reyes original blue, humboldt fog, dry monterey jack, sheep s-milk ricotta, tangy soft fresh goat cheese, or other local cheese), sliced or crumbled, room temperature, pine nuts, fine sea salt

olive oil, button mushrooms (baby bella s cut in 1/2), red onion, diced, garlic cloves, minced, vermouth or 1/4 cup white wine, salt, chili pepper flakes, dried herbs (rosemary, thyme, oregano or parsley), fresh ground nutmeg, arugula, washed and spun dry, pear, diced, crumbled blue cheese, toasted pine nuts (optional)

cooked brown rice, rice vinegar, kosher salt, pine nuts, sheets nori (seaweed), prosciutto, blue cheese, peeled, julienned pear, balsamic glaze

port, red wine vinegar, shallot, finely minced, salt and freshly ground black pepper, extra-virgin olive oil, loosely packed young frisee (curly endive), torn into bite-size pieces, ribbon-cut radicchio, soaked, drained, and dried, crisp red pear, halved, cored , and very thinly sliced crosswise, chunk blue cheese, frozen, candied walnuts , or other candied nuts

stilton cheese (or other good quality sharp blue cheese) or 3 oz roquefort cheese, coarsely crumbled (or other good quality sharp blue cheese), dried cranberries, walnuts or 1/4 cup pecans, toasted and chopped, pears (anjou or bartlett, ripe but still firm), juice of 1 lemon, apple cider (or apple juice), port wine, pear , liquor such as poire williams, light brown sugar