salad ingredients:

1 bag of baby spinach

1 red apple, diced

1 cucumber, diced

3/4 cup craisins

1 cup pecan pieces, candied*

4 strips bacon, cut in pieces and cooked

dressing ingredients:

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 apple cider vinegar

1/2 teaspoon paprika

2 teaspoon onion powder

1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

1 Tablespoon poppy seeds

1/2 cup olive oil

Combine all of the salad ingredients.

To make the dressing, combine sugar, vinegar, paprika, onion, Worcestershire, and oil. Shake the dressing until the oil is completely mixed in. Then add in the poppy seeds. Shake again.

Drizzle the dressing over the salad. Serve immediately.

 *To candy the pecan pieces, cook them in a small frying pan with 3-4 Tablespoons of sugar. Stir the the pecans constantly, coating the pecans in the sugar while the sugar melts. When the sugar liquifies, and coats the pecans completely, they are done. From the pan, dump them out on a cutting board and let cool. Breaking the pieces up if necessary.

recipe printed from Just Another Day in Paradise url: http://zitzmanfam.blogspot