Rose Victoria's Best-Ever Salad

I highly recommend using my salad dressing recipe below - no substituting. All the flavors together is what makes this salad so delicious.   

  Rose Victoria's Best-Ever Salad:

 
Ingredients

• 1 bag spring salad mix 
• 1 bag romaine 
• 3 oz bag of Oscar Mayer real bacon (It's best to make your own bacon - but I almost always cheat - applewood smoked bacon is awesome with this salad)
• 1/2 cup dried cherries or cranberries
• 1 large granny smith apple, chopped
• 1/2 cup toasted pecans or almonds
• 5 oz  Gorgonzola or blue cheese crumbled

Directions
Clean lettuce, place in large bowl and top with ingredients - toss.  

Tips

• You can add more or less of each ingredient - do what you prefer.  

• Chop the apple right before serving to prevent it from browning.  

• To toast almonds or pecans - place in skillet on medium high heat, stirring until they are toasted.

• If you plan on serving the entire salad, go ahead and add the dressing a little at a time, blending until you reach desired amount.  If not, keep dressing separate and add individually.

• This salad is great with grilled chicken tossed on top for a meal.

  Rose Victoria's Sweet Balsamic Dressing 

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup vegetable oil or canola
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 3 tablespoons good balsamic vinegar
• 1/8 teaspoon dry mustard (or a little squeeze of yellow or Grey Poupon mustard)
• Few twists of fresh cracked pepper Or use 1/8 tsp of reg ground pepper

Directions
Whisk all the ingredients together, until sugar and oil are blended.  It takes a few minutes for the oil and sugar to blend.  Keep whisking....it will blend.