Mixed Greens With Pears, Leerdammer, Pecans And Grapes

How about salad for a change? This one has lots of flavor and texture. Cheese, too, so you can’t go wrong giving it a try.

Since we have some Dutch cheese in the recipe how about a goofy Dutch video?

Mixed Greens With Pears, Leerdammer, Pecans And Grapes

Salad ingredients:

Mixed greens
1 cup red grapes
2 pears, sliced
150g Leerdammer cheese, cubed
1/2 cup pecans, toasted and chopped

Dressing ingredients:

4 Tbs extra virgin olive oil
2 Tbs lemon juice
1/2 tsp dijon mustard
pinch of sugar
Salt and pepper

Directions:

1. Place salad leaves in a large bowl. Add remaining salad ingredients.

2. Make dressing by whisking together all of the dressing ingredients.

3. Drizzle dressing over salad and serve.

Serves 4

Adapted from Good To Know Recipes magazine

You know what? I don’t know anything about Dutch music. I don’t own a single song by any artists from the Netherlands. I think Golden Earring is the only famous band that I can name.

I’ll put Dutch on my ‘music to learn about’ list. In the meantime, how about some songs by Jolie Holland?
Jolie Holland-Old Fashioned Morphine

Jolie Holland-Mexico City

Cheers!

5 Responses to Mixed Greens With Pears, Leerdammer, Pecans And Grapes

Jeremy says:

March 21, 2011 at 8:58 am

Bettie Serveert! Check ’em out if you haven’t heard. The singer was born in Canada but raised in Holland; the rest of the band is Dutch.

- I Sing In The Kitchen – Music obsessed cooking freak whipping up fab food one song at at time.
  
  I Sing In The Kitchen says:
  
  March 21, 2011 at 9:41 am
  
  Thanks Jeremy! I just spent awhile going through the videos on their website and I definitely liked what I heard.
  If anyone else wants to check out the band:
  http://www.bettieserveert.com/index.html
  
liz2024 – Frederick, MD

liz2024 says:

March 21, 2011 at 9:02 am

Love that mexico city song, I have never heard of that Dutch cheese!

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Megan Wheeler says:

March 23, 2011 at 6:59 pm

I made this for dinner tonight – yum! Our grocery store didn’t have Leerdammer cheese, so I used emmentaler instead which I think is similar and was also yummy. Then I used candied pecans for a special treat and added chicken to make it the main course. Thanks again for a great recipe!