Bacon and Egg Salad

Bacon and Egg Salad is so flavorful with bits of crispy bacon and a mustardy viniagrette. With chopped jammy boiled egg scattered throughout, this is a sald you'll actually be excited to eat.

Talking myself into eating healthy is such a chore. I have all sorts of mental blocks around vegetables, and I just like being happy. A doughnut or a cheeseburger is pretty much always going to bring me more joy than a bowl full of lettuce. But the older I get, the more I learn that self-care is often about making the hard choices for yourself. It's about temperance, finding that balance between the two extremes of any pole.

But if I do have to eat salad, I really need to trick myself into wanting it, otherwise I just get depressed. There has to be something awesome going on, textures and flavors that really excite me. Whether that's homemade brown butter croutons, grilled halloumi, or crispy bacon, I've gotta want it, otherwise it won't happen. I'll never be a person who can eat a bowl full of kale and beets. I know myself, and I know what I need. You just gotta make it work.

What makes this Bacon and Egg Salad so awesome?

If you want to make a bowl full of lettuce more awesome, you've gotta add bacon. This salad has crispy smoked bacon and jammy boiled eggs running throughout. And the mustard viniagrette is made in the skillet with the bacon drippings as the fat for the dressing, so none of that good bacon flavor goes to waste. Other than that, you can season it with good salt and fresh cracked black pepper. It's simple and delicious.

Because the dressing is warm, you want to serve and eat this salad straight away. You could certainly add other vegetables or protein to this if you like or make it a side dish to some grilled protein. I like to just get a big plate and make that my meal for the night, maybe with some good bread and butter. There's lots of flavor here, so you don't need much else.

Make it magical

Lettuce has different properties depending on the shape. For this recipe, we're using Romaine, so we'll explore the long, straight types of lettuce, which definitely have sexier properties than their round cousins. Call on Romaine lettuce for some projective Mars energy. Lettuce can be good for love and seduction spells, so serve a salad at date night if you want to get lucky later.

Learn more about the healing and magical properties of lettuce, and find the magical properties of the other ingredients in this recipe at the Kitchen Magick page.

Ingredients

Here's everything you'll need to make this dish. The full details are in the recipe card below.

• Eggs
• Garlic - one whole clove or some garlic-infused oil
• Romaine - or other crisp lettuce
• Bacon - streaky bacon, preferrably smoked, you can use chopped strips of bacon or bacon lardons
• Mustard - your favorite variety
• Apple cider vinegar
• Worcestershire sauce

Tips for making Bacon and Egg Salad

This salad is super simple. Start by boiling your eggs. You want them to still be soft in the center, so either use an egg timer that goes right in the pot, or follow the method in the recipe card of bringing the water to the boil then turning off the heat and leaving them in the pot for 10 minutes. You can do this as far ahead of time as you like. Just stash the boiled eggs in the fridge until you're ready to use them.

To make the salad dressing, either drizzle your skillet with a little bit of garlic-infused oil, or crack a whole garlic clove, peel it, and add it to the pan. It will infuse the fat from the bacon as it renders. If you're chopping your bacon, I find it's easiest to cut it with scissors right over the pan. Cook your bacon until it's crispy, then remove it to a paper towel-lined plate.

Turn the heat off under your skillet and add the mustard, vinegar, and Worcestershire sauce, then whisk to combine. I like to tip the pan a bit to get all the liquid pooled up in one corner to make it easier to bring it all together.

To assemble your salad, simply chop or tear your lettuce into a big bowl, scatter over the bacon, then drizzle over the dressing and give it all a good toss to get the lettuce coated. Then add in your roughly chopped boiled eggs and give it one last mix. Check for seasoning and add salt and pepper if you like.

Eating salad is awesome when there's bacon and jammy boiled eggs involved. You're gonna love it.

Looking for more awesome salad recipes? Check out this beautiful Strawberry Poppy Seed Salad or a Fiery Halloumi Salad.

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