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BISTRO SALAD

2/16/2008

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One of my favorite meals is a classic French salad of bitter greens, poached eggs and crispy bacon.  Every so often I mix up a vinaigrette of shallots, sherry wine vinegar and fried apple-smoked bacon and keep it in a jar in my refrigerator, making it easy to assemble this salad quickly.  Garnish the salad with bread cubes that have been browned in your best olive oil and a big sprinkle of Kosher salt once off the heat.

                                                   BISTRO SALAD

Charlie Trotter's Sherry-Bacon Vinaigrette:
4 oz. bacon, julienned (I use Nueske's)
1/2 cup olive oil
1/4 cup sherry wine vinegar
1 small shallot, finely diced
salt & freshly-ground black pepper
*  Cook the bacon until crispy.  Place bacon and 1/4 cup of the rendered bacon fat in a small bowl.  Whisk in the olive oil, vinegar and shallot and season to taste with salt and pepper.

To assemble salad:
Toss bitter greens with vinaigrette.  Top each serving with one to two poached eggs.  Garnish with croutons.  Season poached eggs to taste.

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deana@lostpastremembered link
2/21/2010 06:38:10 am

I just loved your props!!! The Trotter recipe is great... he's such a wonderful chef and not so well known out of Chicago as he should be!!!

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