Toss that salad. Cheese has this magical ability to turn any pile of lettuce into a masterful salad, but you need the right dressing to tie it all together. Just as honey pairs with any cheese, this honey vinaigrette is the perfect pairing for any cheesy salad. It’s sweet and tangy with a little kick—guaranteed to make a salad person out of you. Here are my recipes for that tasty hot honey vinaigrette and three seductively cheesy salads you need to put it on.

Hot Honey Vinaigrette

Serves 4-6

Ingredients:

• 1⁄4 cup extra virgin olive oil (something high quality and tasty)

• 2 ½ tablespoons apple cider vinegar

• 2 ½ tablespoons hot honey

• salt

Whisk together the vinegar and honey with a little salt. Slowly drizzle in the EVOO whisking continuously until thoroughly incorporated. 

Now Put That Sweet n’ Tangy Thangy All Over These 3 Cheesy Salads.

Bacon and Smokey Blue

• 1/2 head butter lettuce

• 2 slices bacon, chopped and cooked ’til crispy

• 8 pecans, chopped

• 1 oz Rogue Creamery Smokey Blue, crumbled

• 1/4 avocado

• 2 tablespoons scallions

• black pepper

Prosciutto and Humboldt Fog

Ingredients:

• 1 cup arugula

• 2 dates, slivered

• 8 Marcona almonds, chopped

• 3 slices prosciutto

• 2 oz Humboldt Fog

• black pepper 

Cirtus and Cotija

Ingredients:

• 1 cup arugula

• 1 cara cara orange, cut into a Suprème

• 1/3 avocado

• 1 oz cotija 

• black pepper

• sea salt