Yep Frang, good thinking - fennel and pear are AWESOME together in salad. I love to add some rocket and even some orange segments too (blood oranges if you can get them yum yum!)

I found a great recipe online one day for blood orange salad dressing - i tweaked it a bit as i didn't have all the ingredients - i used hazelnut oil instead of walnut oil (i think those were the oils) but gosh it was beautiful!