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    Home » Recipes » Soup, Salad, & Sandwich Recipes

    Salad with Smokey Blue Cheese

    Published: Feb 13, 2011 · Modified: Apr 21, 2023 by Ashley

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    Salad topped with beets, tomatoes, blue cheese, and balsamic.

    I picked up this awesome Roque Creamery Smokey Blue cheese, and wanted to add it to a salad. The description of the cheese had us drooling: Rogue Creamery’s “Oregon Blue” is the first blue cheese made on the West Coast, so we thought it only fitting that it be the first blue ever smoked. We cold smoke it for 16 hours over hazelnut shells from the Pacific Northwest. The result is a balance of sweet caramel and hazelnut flavors that magically contrast the sharpness of our blue cheese. This stuff tastes almost bacon-y, and it was perfect on my salad. I made a bed of baby arugula and topped it with some multi-colored tomatoes, roasted beets, pea shoots and sliced shallots. I added some fleur de sal, freshly grated black pepper, and dressed it with a nice olive oil and aged balsamic vinegar. It was fantastic!

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    1. Jhonny walker

      February 22, 2011 at 2:56 pm

      you are good. you are VERY good. This is terrific. So spring time 🙂

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    2. Lola green

      May 28, 2018 at 11:00 am

      Beautiful salad! Next time I pick up some Smokey Blue Cheese I'll have to put it on a salad similar to yours. I'm sure it tastes delicious.

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