Wilted Lettuce Salad

Words cannot express how much I love this salad. I crave this dish more than any dish I can think of. I have pleasant memories of my mom making a big bowl of this salad and my sisters and I eating it with our fingers. Yeah, it's that good. And forks get in the way.

     To start off, you need a decent-sized head of leaf lettuce. After thoroughly rinsing, tear into bite sized pieces into a large salad bowl.

Get a bunch of green onions, chop them and toss them into the bowl. Put the bowl into the refrigerator to chill. Next, you want to fry up some bacon. You can use anywhere from 6 pieces to the whole darn package. I prefer the latter because bacon is amazing. The reason it helps to use more bacon is because you need to reserve 1/4 cup of the grease for the salad dressing.  Once the bacon is finished, then crumble it and add it to the salad.

 In the skillet, along with the 1/4 cup reserved bacon grease, you add salt, sugar, cider vinegar and salt. Make sure you scrape off all the delightful bits of bacon that was left behind in the skillet. Bring this lovely mixture to a boil and stir it well. Then pour the boiling mixture over the lettuce and toss. Serve immediately!

  The best part of this salad is that you get to eat it while it's warm. This salad obviously doesn't keep well, so be sure to eat all of it. In one sitting. By yourself. 'Cause you're not going to want to share.

         Wilted Lettuce Salad

1 large head leaf lettuce

6 (or more!) slices bacon

1 bunch green onions, chopped

1/2 c. cider vinegar

1 1/4 c. water

3 tbsp. sugar

1/2 tsp salt

Rinse and drain lettuce thoroughly. Tear into pieces and put into large bowl with onions to chill. Fry bacon and reserve grease. Pour grease into measuring cup. Take skillet and pour reserve grease into it as well as vinegar, water, sugar and salt. Heat mixture to boiling and stir well. Take bacon and crumble over lettuce. Pour boiling mixture over lettuce and toss. Serve immediately!

 

"April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go." Christopher Morley

Spring has started and so has all the things that go with it. I recently bought a new (to me) camera and am enjoying myself by taking pictures of everything around me. It's kind of interesting how you start to see everything in a different eye. I am currently obsessed with photos of flowers and my cats. I'm new to this- forgive me.

 See? Flowers.

And a cat.

This is a tree, but you get it.

Yup. Another cat.

I tend to take photos of what's around me. So, I guess this is a good excuse to get out more. You know, not because sunshine and fresh air is good for you and all that. I just don't want people to think I'm a crazy cat lady.