Warm Salad Greens with Bacon

[clara]

Ingredients:
100 gms. spinach or choice of lettuce green, cut into serving pieces
1/2 cup honeycured bacon, chopped
1/2 cup prepared herbed croutons
Dressing:
1/4 cup olive oil
1 tsp. red wine vinegar

1/2 tsp. prepared mustard
1 tbsp. basil, chopped
1 tsp. parsley, chopped
salt to taste
ground black pepper to taste

Directions:

Pan-fry bacon until crisp. Drain and set aside.

Combine dressing ingredients in a saucepan. Let boil and turn off the heat. Add salad greens and toss to coat evenly with dressing.

Transfer to plates and garnish with bacon and crouttons. Makes 2 servings.

[Leneyloo]

does it defeat the point of a salad if you put bacon in it...hehe

[clara]

Hehe good point. But salad means a mixture of chopped or sliced ingredients. Though it can be made with meat or eggs, it usually includes at least one raw vegetable or fruit, most often lettuce. Often it is prepared or served with a dressing. Its meaning comes from the French worde salade of the same meaning, from the Latin salata, "salty", from sal, "salt".

[Leneyloo]

Thanks for the lesson - a bit of history with our meal