Take-out Tuesday, Autumn Vegetable Salad with Warm Corn & Bacon Vinaigrette
We have been dealing with the remnants of Hurricane Patricia on the Gulf Coast. The wind is howling, huge waves are breaking…
Our house built on stilts shakes and sways every so often… scary stuff! 👻
These photos were taken from inside because you couldn’t open the door against the force of the wind
Inside everything was cozy and dry,
We had power and groceries, so I got to play in the kitchen
Warm salads are a nice choice as the weather turns cooler, not to mention, WETTER ☔️
I opted for fresh raw greens as the base of my Autumn Vegetable Salad
Spinach, kale, raddichio, romaine….you can take a short cut and use a little help from prepared salad in a bag, so handy for getting a variety of goodies
The “dressing” is actually a combination of the warm ingredients plus a little bacon fat, vinegar and mustard
Saute diced bacon until crisp. Remove and drain. Pour off all but 1 T of bacon grease from skillet
Saute the other vegetables in the bacon drippings
Add vinegar and mustard to skillet and stir. Add more bacon drippings, vinegar and mustard as desired to create the vinaigrette
Toss bacon into vegetables and stir. Pour over salad greens
The warm vinaigrette of vegetables marries with the crisp salad greens for a delightful and satisfying dish
You can add additional vinaigrette if you like a wetter salad
Mixed Green Salad with Corn & Bacon Dressing
Ingredients
- 3 cups mixed greens
- 3 slices bacon diced
- 2 green onions diced
- 1 cup fresh, canned or thawed frozen corn kernels
- 2 cups cooked Brussels sprouts* [optional]
- 2-4 T vinegar
- 1-3 tsp honey mustard
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- Place salad greens in individual bowls or one large bowl.
- Cook bacon. Remove from skillet, reserving drippings and drain on paper towels. Add onion, corn and Brussels sprouts to skillet. Heat through. Stir in vinegar and mustard. Season with salt and pepper. Add bacon. Heat and add more bacon grease, vinegar and mustard to taste. Serve on top of prepared salad greens.
Notes
So many goodies in this salad!
Enjoy!
Here’s another favorite warm salad Roasted Sweet Potato Spinach Salad with Maple Bacon
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Everything is better with bacon Jenna and I love a warm bacon vinaigrette on a salad! Love your medley of ingredients. I hope your beach house is safe from the howling winds, I’m sure your house swaying is scary 🙂
Nice to see your outdoor pumpkin is hanging in there! Stay dry:@)
This looks delicious Jenna, and the vinaigrette is making me swoon. Got to try this. Glad you kept power while at the shore, that was some terrible weather.
Thanks Emily, I think you’ll love the salad, it’s my new favorite! Yes, it was very scary weather, our pier was underwater for a while, but water has receded and the sun’s trying to come out this morning >
Your salad is my new favorite, too. The mix, the textures, the taste–can’t beat that. The hurricane pictures are scary. Once at Orange Beach, AL, we rode out a tropical storm, and I thought the condo might topple. Nothing like those Gulf winds. Stay safe!
I didn’t realize the our coast got such a storm out of Patricia. It has rained off and on here and there is quite a bit of wind, but nothing damaging. This salad looks really good. Now I am going to look and see if I have everything to do this later! You always inspire me with your efforts.
Thanks Ellen, it was a scary day but the sun’s out this morning so we’re going to be outside cleaning up all day, ugh! I hope you enjoy the salad!
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Be safe Jenna – those photos sure show how scary it looks! Salad looks delish!!!!!!!
Things are back to normal today, thanks Jodi! >
This weather has really been something, hasn’t it?? LA got pounded Sat-Mon and we’re just starting to dry out. We sat in a deluge Sat. night at LSU – ha! But if my boy is still playing, I’m staying! I’m a bit worried about the beach house, so a friend of mine is going to drive to Gulf Shores this week just to check on things. I always lock up tight and put down storm shutters.
Another warm salad hit! (I still make your warm stone fruit salad often).
Your house is probably fine, but it’s good you have someone to check on it~ we didn’t have any damage, just a lot of debris in the pool and yard. We spent the day cleaning up and the weather is back to normal. I can’t believe you sat in the rain for the game!! I’m so glad you like the salads! >
Jenna, I love salads and this sounds so perfect for autumn! It has rained here in NE AL for the past two days with wind, but nothing like you have experienced! Be safe! Blessings, Pam
Thanks Pam, it was a rough day but all is good now! >
Oh no Jenna,
Be careful and stay dry and safe. This salad looks amazing! Thanks for sharing the recipe.
Julie xo
Thank you Julie, so sweet of you! >
My mouth was saying OOhh!! just like the darling little ghosties! What horrific weather. I saw it was going to hit the Gulf and cause havoc, but these are the first pictures I have seen.
The salad sounds wonderful and a warm salad is a great transition. We are still having beautiful days, but cooler nights so I haven’t transitioned into fall cooking yet and this would be perfect.
Ironically I was worried about you and your house in Cabo, we were actually dumbstruck that it was so bad, no one predicted it in our area! Luckily we were there and able to secure things last minute~ Happy Halloween, I know you will be doing fabulous witchy things!!!
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Hi Jenna,
I sure understand dealing with all that water, that’s what we have been doing. This looks like my kind of Salad! Thanks so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday and hope you have a great week.
Come Back Soon!
Miz Helen