Spinach Salad With Caramelized Pecans

“i had this at a wonderful restaurant in scottsdale, arizona called “Bloom”.i came home and checked recipezaar and there it was.it is just as good as in the restaurant and i will make it many more times.i have shared it with friends as well.very good salad and so easy to make.”

“I made this for a luncheon and everyone wanted therecipe!I used raspberry vinegarette instead ofthe oil and vinegar dressing—-I also used bleucheese instead of athe feta.”

“Great recipe. I first made this for thanksgiving dinner and it was a huge hit. 🙂 I have repeatedly done the salad time and time again, it always tastes fantastic!”

“wonderful holiday salad!! made for thanksgiving, and making again for christmas because of the rave reviews of my fellow food critics (family)!!! i would reccomend adding craisins, very good. Thank you for the recipe :)”

“we all loved it at thanksgiving. i only had romaine and green leaf lettuce. i put pomegranate seeds in it and made a raspberry vinaigrette.”

“Yup, the whole family loved it, made it as a salad for Xmas dinner. Great!”

“Excellent!My non-salad-eating son had three huge helpings and then some!Will make again, thanks so much for posting.”

“It’s interesting that the recipe origin is from a microbrewery – why do they always have the best food? For me, it was all about the pecans, since I had never tried carmelizing nuts before. To get it to work, I had to turn the heat up to medium. It seemed like it took longer than three minutes, but maybe it was just a long three minutes. 🙂 When you think they will never carmelize, it happens, and they are amazing!”

“Great!”

“I do LOVE this salad!The only change I made was to use balsamic vinegar instead of white vinegar.I thought it would give it a little smoother taste.It was So good I had three helpings!I’ll be making this a lot.Thanks so much!”

“Very good!Used blue cheese instead of feta as suggested, and it was incredible!Thank you!”

“it took me two trys to make the pecans.I burnt the first batch (we ate them anyway!).Delicious.”

“Wow ~ this was wonderful!This recipe is going to find a place on my holiday table this year for sure.The recipe was very to make ~ I made as posted.Thank you so much for posting this delicious recipe!”

“Delicious — definitely one of my favorite salads. Also great with dried cranberries (I used orange-flavored Craisins).”

“What a great tasting, pretty salad!The salad was very easy to make.I used baby spinach leaves and a romaine leaf mix.”

“Oh Sharlene, how very awesome! We made this for some “extra-special” visitors who came for a meeting one evening. We made it with a pinch or two of red pepper flakes added to the sugar, and we added avocados as well. The salad was just wonderful! Thank you for posting, Diane :=)”

“I’ve made this recipe several times now and everyone has raved about it.It’s easy and tastes fantastic.Thank you!”

“I made this salad last night but used Pepper Jelly Vinaigrette Dressing recipe (58813)-also used bleu cheese.Great blend of flavors! Thanks Sharlene!”

“It is like the salad at Bloom’s.Excellent!I’ve also had it with fresh pears and butter lettuce – equally good.Raspberry viniagrette would be good too, I bet.”