Apples and Bacon Salad with Maple-Balsamic Vinaigrette – Made with apples, bacon, feta cheese, walnuts and a Maple-Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing, this wonderful Fall-flavored salad is sweet, tangy, crunchy, and beyond delicious!
Hey Hey Hello! Happiest of Mondays, everyone! Yes, Mondays CAN be happy. Stop yawning, pick up a gallon of coffee (espresso helps a bit more), sit back, relax, and jot down the ingredients to tonight’s Apples and Bacon Salad recipe. Cool?
So, you guys, I just got back from Colorado – Breckenridge to be exact – and I kind of can’t come back to Earth, which is also known as 700 feet above sea level, and not 10,000! Again, that’s ten-thousand feet above sea level. Pretty dang high. It’s like flying in a plane, but not? ‘Cause you know, your feet are still on land.
ok. bad analogy. Clearly, I’m better at talking about food, and not altitudes.
Therefore…
Meet my most requested after-apple-picking-trip salad! As in, we walk out of the Apple Orchard and the first question in the car is, “DO we have bacon at home?!?”, in which my response is always, “Of course! I’m a food blogger!!”.
That’s my response to everything food-related. “You’re eating CAKE at midnight?!?”. “Well, yes! I’m a food blogger! Taste-testing at midnight is included in my job description.”…
How cute is SHE?!? I LOVE HER! That’s at the apple orchard, moments before she asked about having an apple-dinner that would include apple sauce, apple butter on toast, and baked apples.
Pretty delicious dinner menu, eh? Too bad I and the hubs were already prepared for this beautiful salad, but I did bake a couple of apples for her and her sis.
Just stop for a second, close your eyes and think about this:Â apples, bacon, FRENCH feta cheese, walnuts, baby romaine.
Can you taste it? Ain’t it amazing?!? Now add the Maple-Balsamic Vinaigrette. mmmmm!
You can add/swap just about anything Fall-ish to this salad and it’s going to be just as awesome. Trust me because I’ve added every possible thing that I could – almonds, pears, gorgonzola, beans, veggies… it just works. Make sure there’s some greens on the bottom to, you know, make it a “salad”.
ENJOY!
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- 1 package (5-ounces) Baby Romaine Lettuce
- 2 cups fresh baby spinach
- 8 bacon slices , cooked to a desired crispness and crumbled
- 3 to 4 medium-sized red apples , chopped
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 1 cup crumbled French feta cheese
- Maple-Balsamic Vinaigrette Recipe (you want to double the recipe for this salad)
- Combine all ingredients in a large salad bowl; gently toss to combine.
- Serve.
WW SmartPoints: 14
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 30 Min
Slow Cooker
Freezer Friendly
One Pot
Low Carb
Instant Pot
Gluten Free
Keto
Chicken
Beef
This is good
I was looking to eat a different type of Salad thanks for making my day today.
Cooking is an art. Thank you for your great recipes. It’ s so good.
I love this recipe, have had restaurant versions of this in the past happy to see it here, thank you for this recipe!
I like really very much this presentation. sound good and hoping to continue to share healthy super food recipes. Thanks for sharing.
Very nice salad! I like such kinds of food recipe.
Look very delicious! I like it! Thanks your post!
I laughed out so loud when I read that part about taste testing at midnight! LOL! I do the same thing and it’s actually my favorite part of the day… eating a slice of cake in peace and quiet is the best thing ever! 😉
We just went apple picking and have apples coming out of our ears! This salad looks fantastic!
This salad is absolute perfection and I’m kind of obsessing over that vinaigrette!
I love the sound of your daughter’s apple-inspired menu. 🙂 But I love the look of the salad even more…because, well, apples and bacon!
Bacon and apples. And maple syrup in the dressing. Oh, I’m in love with this salad.
YES! I want to say yes a thousand times for this salad. Bacon + apples is my kryptonite.
This salad looks pretty darn perfect to me Kate! We went apple picking a few weeks ago and I’ve got a few apples sitting around (i.e.40 lbs) to use up – this salad looks like the way to go!
I’ve JUST started embracing fruit in salads and this sounds SO good, especially with bacon. BACON.
I hope you granted your daughters’ dinner requests. At least it’s fruit, right?!
What a beautiful fall inspired salad.
This looks and sounds amazing! Thanksgiving here in Canada is sneaking up fast and how awesome would this be at the table?!
I need this salad in my life! It has every flavor and texture you could ever hope for! YUM!