Bleu Cheese Spring Salad-Helen Horton

1 5 oz bag of spring mix salad (add some chopped red leaf lettuce for more bulk)

2 oz crumbled bleu or gorgonzola cheese

1/3 c broken sugared pecans

1/3 c dried cranberries

4 thick slices bacon, cooked and chopped

Bleu Cheese dressing

Put the salad mix on platter.  Sprinkle over pecans, cranberries, cheese and bacon.  I like to put the cheese on the very top for color contrast.  Serve with dressing.  My favorite is Litehouse Original Bleu Cheese dressing but any kind you like works great.  This is a very classy salad for a company dinner and works great if you build it on individual salad plates. 

To make your own sugared pecans, put nuts and sugar in a pan using 2 parts nuts to 1 part sugar.  Stir constantly until the sugar melts (do not leave unattended).  Then quickly spread on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper to cool.  Once they cool break apart. 

This was served at the 2009 reunion.