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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Egg, Bacon & Asparagus Salad

Egg, Bacon, and Asparagus Salad
This was to be Wednesday night’s dinner for husband and me.  Son doesn’t like soft-boiled eggs.  Nephew doesn’t either (he was over visiting).  As usual, I had to make some adjustments.  For instance, no walnut oil, so I used pumpkin seed oil from Wegmans  (delicious oil, especially for those squash soups one makes in the fall).  I used sherry cooking wine as I had no sherry vinegar.  I used a little more of the Dijon mustard than what the recipe called for and am glad I did.  It added more punch to the salad.  Lemon juice would have brightened the dressing also, I think.
Easy enough to whip up this recipe.  I said the suggested prayer for each egg as I lowered them into the boiling water.  Prayers worked, no cracked eggs!  I chose to roast the asparagus in a 400 degree oven instead of trying cook for a mere 4 minutes.  Kitchen was in the usual state of mess as we sat down to enjoy this salad.  I toasted some pane rustic to go with the salad (it begs for bread does it not?) Husband asked if I took the picture for the blog before he started in eating.  He really liked this salad.  It was a meal! Son wouldn’t have any of it, but nephew said it was good but not to give him any of the soft-egg either.  Son instead asked for a BLT sandwich from the remaining bacon.  I obliged. 
Hope you all enjoyed your creation!
Kathleen


4 comments:

  1. Very nice. I am starting to feel a little better about not being totally in love with the soft egg!
    The egg prayer worked to get the eggs into the water - but Dorie should have told us to say an egg prayer when it came time to peel them...

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  2. I thought a nice crusty bread would have been great with this salad, too! Your salad looks great. Glad you all enjoyed the salad.

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  3. Hi Kathleen…not only are we both Jersey Girls but we share the same first name. We live in the Northwest corner now but I grew up in Morris County.

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  4. Yes, bread would've been a perfect side to this - wish I had a nice loaf of sourdough! :) Your salad looks wonderful!

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