Cranberry Butter Lettuce Salad

Ingredients

• 1 cup cranberries, fresh or frozen
• 1 T sugar
• 3 T mayonnaise
• 1 T cranberry vinegar* or white wine vinegar
• 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 1 oz soft goat cheese, crumbled
• Salt
• pepper
• 4 slices of bacon, diced
• 1 large butter lettuce
• 1/2 cup dried cranberries
• 1/2 cup candied walnuts, (recipe follows)
• Candied walnuts
• 1/2 cup walnut halves
• 1 T maple syrup
• 1/2 Tbsp sugar
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp. pepper