Salad Ingredients:

• 1 head Romaine lettuce, washed and roughly-chopped into bite-sized pieces
• 1 ripe pear, cored and diced
• 1 avocado, peeled, pitted and diced
• 2/3 cup shelled pistachios
• 2/3 cup crumbled goat cheese (or blue cheese, or feta cheese)
• 1/2 cup diced red onion (about half of a small red onion)
• seeds from 1 pomegranate (here is a tutorial for how to open and de-seed a pomegranate)
• citrus vinaigrette (see below)

Citrus Vinaigrette Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup orange juice (freshly-squeezed, if possible)
• 1/4 cup white balsamic vinegar (or white wine vinegar)
• 1 tablespoon honey, if needed to sweeten
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly-ground black pepper
• 1/3 cup olive oil