CONNIE'S RECIPE BOX

I have been a recipe collector and have way too many cookbooks and pages torn from magazines! I am on a quest to organize, clean out and simplify my recipes and to get back to an organized meal planning and preparation system! Recipes on this blog will have to pass the "taste test" of my family and will need to be fairly simple to make and of reasonable expense. There is also a desire to use whole grain foods and other long term food storage items!

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

PORK, PEAR, AND CRANBERRY SALAD

PORK, PEAR AND CRANBERRY SALAD
 THIS SALAD WAS FANTABULOUS!!!  A SURPRISING MIX OF FLAVORS!

VINEGAR MIX:
1T cider vinegar
1t spicy or brown Mustard
3/4 t brown sugar
1/4t dried thyme


1T olive oil

1 lb. pork cooked and diced/shredded
2 cloves of minced garlic
1t dried thyme

1/4 C dried cranberries
1/4 C cranberry juice
6 C baby spinach or other greens
1 ripe red Anjou pear, diced

Combine vinegar, mustard, brown sugar and 1/4t thyme.  Set aside.
In skillet, heat oil.  Add pork, garlic, 1t thyme, salt and pepper.  Toss and coat and brown the pork just a bit.
Add dried cranberries and juice and cook 2 minutes until liquid is reduced a bit.  Add vinegar mixture.
While pork is simmering, cut and dice pear.  Place greens and pear on plates and top with pork mixture.