Salad Night…

Yep… I made a salad. Without scrolling to the bottom of the post to see who’s typing this…I guess you don’t know where to set your level of surprise about a salad being made… If it’s Virginia typing, a salad is nothing out of the ordinary… but if it’s Aaron typing… someone must have found a way to deep fry a salad…

So… without further ado… let salad making begin.

First, we’re going to need two wedges of Iceberg Lettuce.

Look at those gorgeous wedges. Crisp. Green. Awesome.

We’ll also be needing a 1/4 cup of Red Wine vinegar.

And a hard boiled egg.

Yes, I make the perfect hard boiled egg. No weird green stuff around the yolk, easy to peel… The way I do it is to put the eggs in the pot with cold water. Bring the pot to a boil, turn off the burner and cover the pot. Then, let it sit for 11 minutes. After 11 minutes, dump the hot water, add a few handfuls of ice, and some cold water. After about 5 minutes, they will be ready to peel.

So, now that we have the majority of our ingredients handy, let’s start with making the salad.

Step 1. Cook 4 strips of bacon.

I’m going to have to look through the blog albums one day and do a survey, but I think that there are more pictures of cooking bacon than anything else. Either cooking bacon, or chopping garlic.

As the bacon is getting happy, dice the egg up pretty finely measure out your red wine vinegar ( 1/4 cup ) and measure out 2 TSP of Brown Sugar.

Now that the bacon is cooked, pull the bacon from the pan (Do not drain the bacon grease)  and set it on a paper towel to relax for a little bit. Once it’s cooled enough to touch, chop the bacon into smaller bits.

Now… for the awesomeness. Add the red wine vinegar, brown sugar, chopped egg and bacon to the bacon grease and stir it around just a bit… You don’t want to leave it all in the pan too long, as the vinegar will just cook off…

Then, pour the concoction over your Iceberg Wedges.

Yeah. That’s a salad. Now, this is just the most basic version. You could use a bit of stone ground mustard and honey to make a bacon-y awesome honey mustard dressing… you could add onions to the mix if you like onions on your salad… We chose to garnish with a few tomatoes and cucumbers…  I’ve got some more fun recipes coming up soon… so it shouldn’t be months before the next update.