Serious Salads: Baby Spinach Salad with Pears, Red Onions, Cranberries, and Toasted Hazelnuts

Serious Salads

When you want your vegetables to be more than just a side dish.

Jennifer Segal

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[Photo: Jennifer Segal]

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Tender greens, juicy pears, crimson cranberries, and toasted hazelnuts make a festive salad to start all those special holiday meals. Be sure to soak the onions in cold water as directed—it takes away the unpleasant raw onion taste.

About the author: Jennifer Segal is the chef behind the popular food blog, Once Upon a Chef.

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Jennifer Segal
Jennifer Segal

Jennifer Segal is the chef and photographer behind Once Upon a Chef, a family-friendly food blog featuring easy and elegant recipes with step-by-step photos. Once upon a time, she went to culinary school, cooked in a fancy French restaurant and was a personal chef. Nowadays, she devotes her time to her family, her blog, writing for HuffingtonPost Kitchen Daily and a regular salads column on Serious Eats. Her recipes have also appeared on Saveur.com, Yummly.com, thenest.com and Metrocurean.com. Jennifer passionately believes that cooking at home should be relaxing and fun. Her recipes are simple, even when they’re gourmet. She lives in the Washington, DC area with her husband, two kids and crazy dog, Miles.

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