Recipe Round-up: Salads
Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 06:01PM 
Hey! It's time for this month's Recipe Roundup, hosted by Violet at Promptings. Be sure to get your recipe posted and get the link to Violet tomorrow! She'll have a Mr. Linky up tomorrow, or you can email your link to her today.
Smoky Autumn Salad
This is one of my own concoctions. The dressing is loosely based on one I saw Emeril do several years ago. Salad is an imprecise art, so there are no real measurements; just prepare more or less to taste and to the size of the group you are feeding!
Romaine lettuce, torn
spinach, washed and torn (you can use baby spinach, but it is almost too delicate for this salad)
walnuts
red onion rings, sliced thin
croutons if you like them
bacon
Smoky bacon mustard honey dressing
Mince bacon and brown in pan until crispy. Remove from pan and drain on paper towel. Leaving bacon drippings in pan, deglaze with about 1-2 T balsamic vinegar. Keeping the pan sizzling, quickly wisk in about 1 T dijon mustard and about 2 tablespoons honey. Whisk until the dressing is velvety smooth and shiny. Drizzle over salad and toss. Serve immediately.
Here are some links to other salad recipes I've posted in the past:
Ellen will be hosting next month on August 2nd. BBQ and Grilling Recipes! Yum!
Reader Comments (8)
The dressing sounds so tasty! Yum we are sooo having salad weather here. It's cooled down about 10 degrees today,though. Yippee! Blessings.
I love anything with bacon...I posted a potato salad recipe with bacon...lol. This sounds wonderful.
Yum Yum Yum! The dressing sounds absolutely wonderful.
I have garden spinach and garden red romaine I'm going to try this with.
If bacon is an ingredient in a recipe, I'm hooked! This sounds wonderful, Kim.
This salad sounds so delicious, truly! Reminds me of my grandma's wilted lettuce. I wonder if it would be good with dried cranberries added?
That does sound good!! My boys love anything with bacon.
I love the name of this salad - I think I would make it for that alone.