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I call this my "Rachael Ray" salad cause I got the recipe from one of her 30 minute meals show. (she calls the salad a "4 star salad")
1 lemon
1 red onion
1 red pear
fresh thyme
fresh mint leaves
3 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil
Lettuce of your choice (i just a head of iceberg lettuce, but in her show she used Spring lettuce...my mom likes to use it with Romaine lettuce)
In a bowl, cut the lemon in half and squeeze the juice out (no seeds). Then you start to whisk the "E.V.O.O." into the lemon juice. After that, you pull out a few sprigs of thyme (as much as you want) and put it into the bowl. Then you get your mint leaves (again, as much as you like...i usually use around 5 leaves) and chop them up finely. Once chopped then you can put into the bowl. Then you can chop up the onion (in her recipe she used the whole onion, but i cut the onion in half and then only use half of that half...lol)
This is where i deviate from Rachael's original recipe. She says to cut up the red pear and put into the bowl, before you put it into the refrigerator......BUT, I put the bowl into the refrigerator (and sometimes leave it overnight) and THEN put the chopped up red pear into it. So, I put the bowl into the refrigerator, and then i start to cut up the red pear into small edible pieces (not too small, but not too big). Then, i get out the lettuce...and chop it up. (if you use a bag of lettuce, you can skip this part).
Once everything is chopped up. I'll pull out the bowl from the refrigerator, put the red pear into the lettuce and them pour bowl mixture over the lettuce. Then i just toss the mixture so that hte lettuce and the pear gets coated.
YUMMY!!! Its been a hit with my family.
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