Fig, Pear and Walnut Salad Recipe with Lunch Under The Tree

What you will need:

50g Rocket leaves

20g Blue Cheese

1 whole fresh fig (quartered)

20g chopped walnuts

Drizzle with extra virgin olive oil

Quarter of a large pear ( thinly sliced)

Fig, Pear and Walnut Salad Recipe with Lunch Under The Tree

I have filed this article in the Entertaining & Celebrations section of the site as well as the Food & Recipes section. There’s no one coming over, no event going on, it is simply lunch under a tree. The tablecloth is a piece of fabric hauled from the remnants bin in a local fabric shop, thread hanging from the edges. The chair was dragged from the hallway as it was dry enough to be used in the garden and it was the best bit of dragging I ever did.

Just in case I felt like staying there until dusk I took two of my favourite blankets with me. Simple white blankets that I buy in bulk every time I go to that well known Swedish store with a name that rhymes with Mykea.

And then there was lunch. A GORGEOUS mix of fats in the cheese, oil in the walnuts and sweetness from the figs and crispiness from the pear. Couple with peppery rocket (arugula) and you have, on a plate, my favourite thing to eat right now on a sunny day in September.

Empty the salad leaves onto a plate
Crumble the blue cheese over the leaves
Cut the fig into quarters and place the opened fig quarters around the plate
Quarter the pear, slice thinly and add to the salad

Chop the walnuts and then sprinkle on top of the salad
Finish off with a very small drizzle of extra virgin olive oil

Simple, easy, delicious!

Enjoy!

Ah, I almost forgot…..

My second favourite thing to eat right now is rosemary focaccia bread. I have a chunk of this with my salad. Warmed in the oven before tearing a hunk off and scoffing almost all of it before I even make it underneath the tree.

Robert the Husband sums these kind of days up so well. He describes them as “college days in the movies”

You know those films that invariably feature an ivy league university with term starting in the Autumn/Fall? The kids run around the campus with books under their arms and a woolen scarf as their only way of keeping the new breeze out. They have a feel that makes its way through the screen and in to the room. It’s a little like that around here right now. I’ve even started knitting the scarf!

So true, so true.

Let me just say at this point a HUGE welcome to all my new readers. The Internet is AWESOME for stumbling across new things and people and it would appear that those of you finding this site are staying a while and then COMING BACK again for another visit. May you all be truly blessed. Life is not perfect but it is certainly interesting and I’m truly looking forward to experiencing it all with you guys.

Lots of love,

Cherry xo

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