Grilled Peach Summer Salad

{Update: 7/2/12: I'm entering this recipe in the OXO Cherry Recipe Contest}

If the first thing that pops into your head when I say salad is lettuce, you will be quite surprised by the ingredients in this Grilled Peach Summer Salad.

The entire salad came together randomly, just as many of my recipes do. I saw some peaches on sale at the grocery store. Washington State cherries were also on sale. As were the figs and prosciutto.

My original idea was to do something with figs, procsciutto and blue cheese, but alas my grocery store did not order the figs.

Not to worry. I decided to grill peaches using my panini maker and to mix them with peppery arugula, salty blue cheese, and sweet cherries. I added ribbons of prosciutto and thinly sliced red onions for a bit of a bite.

Ingredients
1 peach, cut in half, pit removed, cut into wedges
5-10 sweet cherries, pitted, halved
2 tablespoons blue cheese, crumbled
2 slices prosciutto, torn into ribbons
small wedge of red onion, thinly sliced
olive oil to drizzle
hand full of arugula

Directions
1. Using a grill or a panini maker, grill your peaches. You can also do it in a pan.
2. Mix arugula with a bit of olive oil, cherries and red onions.
3. Top arugula mixture with crumbled blue cheese, ribbons of prosciutto and grilled peaches.
4. Serve immediately. {You want the heat of the peaches to hit the blue cheese and start to melt it just slightly. Note that there is no need to add salt or pepper to this salad as you get a lot of flavor from blue cheese and prosciutto.}

Is this gorgeous or what? How do you like to add summer fruit to your salads?