Reviewed: Dec. 16, 2010

Delicious dressing! I had a blueberry balsamic vinegar on hand that worked beautifully.

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SJD

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Lakeview, Oregon, USA

Living In: Chico, California, USA

Reviewed: May 14, 2009

What a marvelous salad. The bleu cheese is perfectly offset with the Balsamic Vinagrette recipe from this site. I also added seasoned chicken breasts (seasoned with onion soup mix and cajun seasoning) and it became a complete meal not only from a consumption standpoint but from a nutritional one as well. O'Charly's Chicken Pecan Salad can now take a back seat to a new champion and I can make it in my kitchen.

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ORANGEMAN

Cooking Level: Expert

Reviewed: Nov. 24, 2007

Excellent salad! I followed the recipe pretty closely, except that I used a little less balsamic vinegar. It came out great. Will make again.

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Maggielliam

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Oct. 11, 2007

I liked the recipe quite a bit. I used chard though cause thats what I had on hand and omitted the bleu cheese. Substituted brown sugar for molasses and the result was great!

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VIVNIDHI

Reviewed: Jun. 4, 2007

I really only used this recipe as a base, but since I liked what I ended up with, I'm rating it anyway. Instead of bleu cheese, pecans, and red onion, I used avocado, red pepper, and shallot (which I minced and mixed in with the dressing). I didn't cook the dressing, and I only made half--and I ended up using about 3/4 of that, which was still a bit too much. It was a touch too vinegary, but that may have changed if I'd cooked and reduced it. All in all, an enjoyable salad.

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KymInNM

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Central Point, Oregon, USA

Living In: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Reviewed: May 3, 2007

Ingredients are great and go together well. I agree with other reviews, too much dressing and too bland. I will look for a better dressing.

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DIANEDM

Reviewed: Jan. 14, 2007

I'd also double the molasses and add a bit of crisp celery to the salad.

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IBINYON

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Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Shreveport, Louisiana, USA

Living In: Southlake, Texas, USA

Reviewed: Dec. 4, 2006

It is a real head scratcher to me when someone absolutely HATES an ingredient, i.e., bleu cheese, and then gives the recipe a poor rating????!!!! For bleu cheese lovers, this is a good salad.

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trishthedish725

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: San Diego, California, USA

Living In: El Cajon, California, USA

Reviewed: Feb. 26, 2006

We weren't huge fans, mainly because we don't like blue cheese. The pecans were a nice taste in the salad but overall the salad didn't match up to many others we've tried, and wasn't as healthy either. We will probably use the pecans again as an ingrediant with future salads, but as a whole this salad wasn't super.

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JennP

Cooking Level: Beginning

Home Town: Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Reviewed: Nov. 24, 2005

I have been using this recipe for over a year now. The dressing has become one of my favorites, to use on almost any salad (and I don't find it "bland", as some others did, in any way.

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