Ingredients
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1 or 2 hard-boiled eggs
At least 6 slices of bacon, diced ½ of a red onion, thinly sliced into ringlets 1 package of spinach (8-9 ounces) ½ a 4-ounce container of bleu cheese |
Dressing (for all)
⅓ cup vinegar: ½ balsamic & ½ Japanese 1-2 dollops of mustard, start with one White sugar, to taste, start with 1TB Marjoram (fresh or dried) Enough salad oil to combine, start with 2-3T |
What To Do
Hard boil the eggs, cool, shell, and set aside. This can be done ahead of time.
Fry bacon until crisp in a large pan. Set aside on paper towels to drain. Spoon a couple of teaspoons of bacon oil into a small heat-proof mixing bowl (for the dressing). If needed, remove excess bacon oil.
Using the same hot pan, saute red onion until caramelized. Drain on paper towels and set aside.
Cut hard-boiled eggs length- and width-wise with an egg slicer.
Put spinach into a large salad bowl. Sprinkle, eggs, bleu cheese and caramelized red onions over spinach. Add more of less bleu cheese to your taste. Sprinkle bacon over the salad last.
Mix dressing ingredients together, except oil Adjust flavor, particularly sugar, to your taste and then add just enough oil to hold everything together. Pour over salad and toss just enough to coat the entire salad.
Fry bacon until crisp in a large pan. Set aside on paper towels to drain. Spoon a couple of teaspoons of bacon oil into a small heat-proof mixing bowl (for the dressing). If needed, remove excess bacon oil.
Using the same hot pan, saute red onion until caramelized. Drain on paper towels and set aside.
Cut hard-boiled eggs length- and width-wise with an egg slicer.
Put spinach into a large salad bowl. Sprinkle, eggs, bleu cheese and caramelized red onions over spinach. Add more of less bleu cheese to your taste. Sprinkle bacon over the salad last.
Mix dressing ingredients together, except oil Adjust flavor, particularly sugar, to your taste and then add just enough oil to hold everything together. Pour over salad and toss just enough to coat the entire salad.
Notes and Talking Story
- Spinach salad and this dressing lend itself to a lot of flavor flexibility. Here are a couple of options.
- One is a halfsies-swap, and the other keeps only the spinach. If you opt for a fruit variation, be a bit more conservative with adding sugar in the dressing.
- If you don’t like bleu cheese or eggs
Keep spinach, red onion, and bacon.
Replace hard boiled eggs, and bleu cheese with mandarin orange slices and roasted pecans - If you don't like any of the original ingredients
Keep spinach
Replace bacon, onions, hard boiled eggs, and bleu cheese, with sliced strawberries, goat cheese and roasted pecans.
