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Prosperity Salad




Source of Recipe


Marsha


Recipe Introduction


Makes 2 main dish servings or 4 servings as a side dish. (I made one and a half times the recipe for that dressing and it worked well for 3 people.)


List of Ingredients




SALAD BASE



6 cups fresh spinach leaves divided in bowls or plates

¼ cup red and yellow peppers (Bryan detests peppers so I left them out. Looking back right now, I should have used a jalapeno, and cooked it with the dressing, and it would have added an extra little zing without alot of heat.)

1 cup tomatoes coarsely chopped or grape tomatoes cut in half



BLACK-EYED PEA DRESSING

4 strips bacon trimmed of excess fat and cut into ½-inch segments. (I left it whole to cook, and crumbled it into large pieces when I was done. I used thick-slab bacon.)

1/3 cup chopped or thinly sliced onion
1 cup cooked black-eyed peas, drained and rinsed if canned
3 tablespoons vinegar (balsamic, apple cider or red wine)
½ teaspoon Dijon mustard (used more)
¼ cup olive oil
1 tablespoon honey (used more)
½ cup chicken broth

Salt and fresh ground pepper to taste

Recipe




To prepare the bacon for the dressing, saute in a medium to large skillet with onions over medium heat until bacon becomes crisp.

Deglaze with vinegar, stirring to release drippings from bottom of pan.

Add mustard, honey, olive oil and chicken broth. Stir until steaming hot, incorporating any browned drippings from the bottom of the pan into the liquid.

Add the black-eyed peas to warm them. Season to taste with salt if needed. Pour the mixture over prepared greens and top with fresh-ground pepper as desired.

This salad has such good stuff for health and prosperity: Iron-packed spinach for strength and the promise of folding money, bacon for rib-stickin' endurance and flavor, onions to ward away illness, peppers with vitamin C, mustard for faith like that found in a "grain of mustard seed,” honey as nature's elixir, olive oil for cholesterol health, and black-eyed peas for protein and that time-honored promise of prosperity.