Hot Bacon Spinach Salad With Feta

Wandering out with a client yesterday, I found a wonderful little Italian restaurant. The polenta gnocchi, was quite good, and my dining companion had a wonderful pumpkin soup. The only downer was the Spinach salad with Feta and Pear, the pear was not quite ripe and one had to really search for the feta.

This of course, started quite the discussion on the nature of a good spinach salad. Should it be a cool sweet savory, with pear, washed spinach, feta and some form of olive oil / vinegar dressing, or should this be a warm salad of spinach leaves wilted with a bacon dressing and tossed with feta.

Considering I am need a meat as a flavor meal, I’ll do the bacon spinach and feta salad. I can add more bacon on the side to keep the carnivores at the lair from slathering me with BBQ sauce. As a supporting cast a good corn bread with butter.

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