Fully Loaded Spinach Salad with Bacon and Blue Cheese (164 of 150)

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Christmas day came and went in a blur. My sister in law and my middle brother came over. I made a pseudo beef pot pie and this spinach salad. 

This had all the components a good spinach salad usually has for me. The one thing missing was some type of sweet berry like strawberry or blueberry. Still it was really great. It's a basic salad and super easy to put together. 

It does take some planning because you need to fry up back so you have the bacon grease for the salad dressing.

Fully Loaded Spinach Salad with Bacon and Blue Cheese

Recipe from The Mom 100

Serves 4

• ¼ c extra virgin olive oil
• 3 T red wine or sherry vinegar
• 1 T Dijon mustard
• 2 tsp honey
• Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
• 1 T warmed bacon fat reserved from cooking the bacon, optional
• 8 c baby spinach
• ½ c halved and thinly sliced red onion
• 4 ounces crumbled blue cheese
• 1 c bacon lardons or crumbled cooked bacon

In a large bowl, combine the olive oil, vinegar, Dijon mustard, honey, salt and pepper. Whisk in the bacon fat, if using.

Add the spinach and red onion, and toss to coat with the dressing. Distribute over the blue cheese and bacon and gently toss again, or serve as is and toss at the table.