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the last time I remember seeing them. you fry up some bacon and the hot bacon fat is mixed, I believe, with just some vinegar and added to the greens?

has anyone had this and remember if there is anything else in the dressing? I don't know why this up but I'm really craving one smileys/smile.gif

thanks

 
dang you're fast! thanks Meryl, I've never made one so I'm not sure but it's a great place to

start from. I don't remember the eggs in it but I could be wrong about that. I'll certainl give this one a try tomorrow smileys/smile.gif

 
I remember something similar....

but with mushrooms instead of the eggs. I recall that this one of the first places I tasted raw mushrooms, and I was instantly hooked!
I'd add some thinly sliced red onion also.

 
I worked at Marie Calendar's in the '70's and we served buckets of this salad dressing....

On the rare occasions when we ran out I feared for my safety. This recipe looks to be very close, though M.C.'s probably used more sugar and added some sort of thickener.

 
I'm on a bacon in salad kick. I just remember one I used to have at Tavern on the Green for brunch

on those lovely summer days when you could sit outside. it was iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, bacon and blue cheese with a vinegrette dressing. very good, at least back then smileys/smile.gif

 
I'm on a bacon in salad kick. I just remember one I used to have at Tavern on the Green for brunch

on those lovely summer days when you could sit outside. it was iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, bacon and blue cheese with a vinegrette dressing. very good, at least back then smileys/smile.gif

 
Here is my MIL's version REC: SALAD WITH BACON VINAIGRETTE

perhaps just add crumbled blue cheese to this...

* Exported from MasterCook *

SALAD WITH BACON VINAIGRETTE

Recipe By :Dorothy
Serving Size : 6 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Salads

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method

1 head red leaf lettuce -- torn
1 small red onion -- thinly sliced
6 pieces bacon -- chopped
1/4 cup cider vinegar
2 tablespoons sugar

Brown the bacon in heavy frying pan. Remove pan from heat. Remove bacon to a paper towel to drain. Remove all but 2 tablespoons of bacon fat from frying pan. Add the vinegar and sugar to the frying pan and mix. Toss the salad with the bacon and vinaigrette, and serve immediately.

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1980's Spinach Bacon salad: Dynasty-style

1 bag of spinach, prewashed and exorcised with holy water.
1/2 to 1 lb of bacon, cut into 1" pieces and fried crisp, then blotted dry to remove all traces of guilt by association.
1 head of broccoli, cut into bite-size pieces, blanched in boiling salted water for 3 minutes, dunked immediately in iced water and dried completed.
1 8-oz package of fresh mushrooms, sliced.
1 package of tasty croutons (as opposed to not-so tasty croutons)
6 hard-boiled eggs, sliced
1 bottle of good honey-mustard salad dressing

First, tease your hair and line your lips.
Then mix the ingredients, adding dressing to taste.
Adjust your shoulder pads and leg-warmers while teasing hair higher.
Add vibrant green eyeshadow to your already pink eyelids.
Pretend--because you are eating a salad--that the bacon fat smearing your outlined lips doesn't count.
Have an affair with your twice-divorced step-daughter's third husband's personal assistant named Popeye.
Claim that amnesia and/or an allergy to hard-boiled eggs made you shoot J.R.

 
An oldie, my dad's favorite salad, just bacon grease&lettuce. I know...but he'll be 91 this summer.

Probably the ONLY salad he would eat in my growing up years, he does better now, lol. Drove my mom crazy because she couldn't dress it properly for him.

 
thanks for the recipes. the sugar in the dressing was the one ingredient I didn't think of.

tonight it's a freshly picked arugula salad so the bacon will have to wait until tomorrow. looking forward to it smileys/smile.gif

 
LOL.LOL. I found a use for those old legwarmers. slip one over those travel neck pillows

for a washable cover. honestly. it worked.

 
I should probably save myself and just shut up now but, we all know that's not

my personality. I still use legwarmers over my leggings in the winter. I love shoulder pads. I use moss green or khaki eye shadow.... the only part that didn't fit was teasing the hair and the affair. now I'm sitting here wondering if I need therapy '-))

 
haha. confession time. I have a pair of legwarmers here at the office. I work in a condemned old

building on an air force base, and we have concrete floors(covered in crappy thin carpet). Concrete floors and Alaskan winters do not make for a toasty work environment. I have been known to whip out those leg warmers and put them on to save my circulation. Fashion be danged.

 
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