Cobb Salad with Vinaigrette

A fresh and tasty weeknight meal in the middle of a Minnesota winter!

I have already told you that I feel like I'm a bit of an expert where Bloody Mary's are concerned. Well, my area of expertise where food is concerned is, salads. I can whip up an amazing salad in the blink of an eye. I enjoy salads like most people enjoy chocolate. I understand that a lot of people think of salads as a diet food, just boring, or not a meal. I completely disagree. I think, if made correctly as a main course meal, they are delicious, healthy and satisfying. The salads I enjoy have homemade dressing that starts with a base of oil and vinegar and grows from there depending on the time and energy I feel like putting into it. This is not what you would call a healthy salad, but how can you say no to a combination of blue cheese and bacon?

Ingredients:
Time: 10 minutes
Yield: 2

8 slices bacon
1/4 cup crumbled blue cheese
10 cherry tomatoes, sliced
1 avocado, sliced
4 thin slices red onion
Handful spinach
1/2 bag of butter lettuce(or whatever you have on hand)
1/2 cup croutons
1 T. balsamic vinegar
1 T. red wine vinegar
2 T. olive oil
Salt and pepper

Adding chicken to this salad would make it even more satisfying if you are so inclined.

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