My Favorite Salad

This is my favorite salad.  It's the creation of the wonderful Pioneer Woman.  It's simple, it's hearty and packed with flavor.  It starts with a bed of fresh crisp spinach, then is adorned with salty, crunchy bacon pieces and a boiled egg, then topped off with a sweet & savory bacon vinaigrette.  It's the type of salad I crave.  It's a salad manly enough for a guy.  Have I mentioned, it's my favorite salad?  Yum.

Speaking of spinach, I am going to plant spinach seeds today.  I soaked them overnight in a bowl of warm water with a drop of dish soap.  Why?  Because that's what the books told me to do.  Will it make a difference?  I have no clue.  This is my first year to plant spinach so it'll be an experiment.  I am going to plant some of the seeds in a pot and some in the above ground garden.

As I mentioned before I am notorious for being an over ambitious gardener.  I am trying to narrow down my list of things to plant this year but spinach was a keeper.  For one, I had already bought the seeds and I didn't want to return them, and two, a surplus of spinach from the garden will give me an excuse to eat my favorite salad as much as I want.  Let's hope it grows.