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Nutrition Facts

  • One serving:
  • (prepared with light process American cheese)
  • Calories:
  • 150
  • Fat:
  • 1 g
  • Saturated Fat:
  • 0 g
  • Cholesterol:
  • 3 mg
  • Sodium:
  • 126 mg
  • Carbohydrate:
  • 36 g
  • Fiber:
  • 0 g
  • Protein:
  • 2 g

Mousy Pear Salad

SERVINGS

 4

CATEGORY

 Salads

PREP

 15 min.

TOTAL

 15 min.

INGREDIENTS

  • 2 cups shredded lettuce or lettuce leaves
  • 1 can (15-1/4 ounces) pear halves, drained
  • 24 raisins
  • 1 slice process cheese (Velveeta)
  • Black shoestring licorice, cut into four 3-inch pieces and sixteen 1-inch pieces
  • 1 red maraschino cherry, quartered

DIRECTIONS

On four salad plates, place lettuce and a pear half, cut side down. Insert two raisins at narrow end of pear for eyes. Tuck four raisins under pear for feet. For ears, cut small teardrop-shaped pieces from cheese; place just above the eyes. Insert one 3-in. licorice piece into wide end of each pear for a tail. Insert four 1-in. pieces into each face for whiskers. Place a cherry piece under whiskers for nose. Yield: 4 servings.

Printed from tasteofhome.com Nov 19, 2008

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