What's for Dinner? Strawberry-Bacon Spinach Salad

Taste of Home is one of my favorite cookbooks.  It's also nice that you can find a lot of their recipes online as well.  

Today's recipe is Strawberry-Bacon Spinach Salad.

Photo taken by Laura Henry

Yield: 6-8 servings      Prep/total time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 package (6 ounces) fresh baby spinach
• 1 pint fresh strawberries, sliced
• 8 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled
• 1/4 cup chopped red onion
• 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
• 1 cup mayonnaise
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup raspberry vinegar

Directions

• In a salad bowl, combine the spinach, strawberries, bacon, onion and walnuts. In a small bowl, combine the mayonnaise, sugar and vinegar. Serve with salad.

Photo courtesy of Taste of Home

Nutritional Facts 3/4 cup equals 328 calories, 28 g fat (4 g saturated fat), 15 mg cholesterol, 269 mg sodium, 17 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 4 g protein.

Of course we skipped the walnuts and our onion was in strips instead of chopped.