A delicious salad made with baby spinach leaves, gorgonzola, red onions and crumbled bacon, all tossed in a warm balsamic vinegar, olive oil and dijon mustard dressing. Perfect with barbecued dishes.
I can't even rate how this tastes, because we ended up eating a salad of plain spincach with toasted pine nuts, blue cheese, and Ranch dressing. The dressing was going fine until I added the remaining dressing to the pan, where it promptly separated and turned into one big, disgusting, gloppy mess. (The heat was turned to low...) It was unusable as salad dressing. If one is going to make this, I don't recommend heating the remaining dressing, but just stirring the heated onion mixture into the room-temp mixture. I am saving the onion mix to hopefully use on chicken or something. The only thing I was able to use was the toasted pine nuts- those were wonderful. I'm kind of upset about the whole thing because it was very time-consuming, and then it didn't work (and wasted my good olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and bacon). - 16 Nov 2005 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
Yummy. A bit more labor intensive than I imagined so I did some shortcuts -- used pre-cooked bacon pieces and heated up with a little bit of oil. Used a much smaller amount also and we more than enough bacon in the dressing. Used regular blue cheese instead of gorganzola but next time will up that amount slightly. Finally, I just put the onions in with the bacon and let it all cook together. - 08 Mar 2005 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
This sounded so yummy, BUT my husband and 2 guests didn't love it. Made according to directions except cut back to 1/2 lb. bacon (still too much). Overload on calories and time-consuming, I don't think I'll make this recipe again. With some overhaul, I think the recipe has potential - using the same basic ingredients, cutting down on the measurements and lightening up on the dressing (2/3 C of olive oil is excessive). - 01 Nov 2005 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)