Crisp fall salad with walnuts, chopped pear, and blue cheese.

Endive is one of my guilty pleasures.

Perfect for the fall!

Endive Salad with Walnuts Pear Gorgonzola

Elise Bauer

If you don’t have access to endive, feel free to substitute butter lettuce.

Go toendive.comfor the story, the man from Sacramento, and the farm behind California-grown endive.

Add the walnuts, crumbled gorgonzola, and chopped pears.

chopped and whole endive

Elise Bauer

Drizzle olive over the salad.

Drizzle cider vinegar over the salad.

Season to taste with a sprinkling of salt and pepper.