| 8 oz | Blue cheese crumbled |
| 2 cups | Dried cranberries |
| 1/4 tsp | Fresh orange zest(optional) |
| 1/2 cup | Chopped pecans |
| 1 or 2 tablespoons | Orange flavored olive oil |
Crumble up blue cheese.
Coarsely chop pecans.
Mix the dried cranberries with the crumbled blue cheese, orange zest and chopped pecans. Drizzle 1 to 2 tablespoons of orange flavored olive oil over the mixture and toss gently. Serve with table water crackers. They are very bland and unsalted and will let the fruit and cheese flavors blossom in your mouth.
Using blocks of blue cheese instead of already prepackaged blue cheese crumbles will make it easier to control the size of the crumbles. Not to large, not to small. You can also use different dried fruits and your favorite nuts. Sometimes I use pistachios. The green nuts with the red cranberries is very pretty. You can find the orange flavored olive oil at Williams-Sonoma.