Recipes

[Chi-town girl]

 

Ingredients

• Six 7-minute eggs for medium, or 12 for hardboiled, peeled and quartered
• 1 cup smoked blue cheese, crumbled
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 pound smoked chicken or rotisserie chicken
• 1 bunch scallions, trimmed of root and tough ends
• 12 slices meaty bacon, 6 finely chopped
• ¾ pound crimini or ******ake mushrooms, sliced
• 2 large or 3 medium shallots, finely chopped
• 4 cloves garlic, chopped
• ⅓ cup cider vinegar
• ⅓ cup honey mustard (or 2 tablespoons honey and 3 tablespoons grainy Dijon mustard)
• 2 tablespoons finely chopped thyme
• 1½ to 2 pounds medium-size leaf spinach, stemmed and coarsely chopped
• Freshly grated nutmeg, to taste (about ⅛ teaspoon)
• Salt and pepper, to taste
• 4 radishes, thinly sliced and cut into matchsticks

Serves: 4

Preparation

Preheat oven to 400˚F rack at center.

For eggs, start in cold water, bring to boil, cook to time, cover and remove from the stove. Drain the eggs and crack the shells, then soak in cold water, cool to handle, peel and halve.

Crumble cheese

Heat a drizzle of oil, 1 turn of the pan, in a cast iron skillet. If using smoked chicken, char. If using rotisserie chicken, heat through, then carve meat from bone and slice. Char scallions to blister, 3 to 4 minutes over medium-high to high heat. Cool a bit and slice into bite-sized pieces.  

Arrange 6 slices of bacon on slotted pan or wire rack-lined baking sheet and bake to crisp. Cool to handle and cut into 1-inch pieces.

Add the remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil to pan, 2 turns of the pan, and brown mushrooms, then remove to transfer plate. Add remaining finely chopped bacon and render 3 minutes. Add shallots and garlic, stir for 2 to 3 minutes. Add vinegar, mustard and thyme, remove from heat and whisk, add spinach and wilt a bit 1 minute, then add nutmeg, salt and pepper and radishes.

Arrange greens on platter and arrange rows on top of halved eggs, sliced chicken, blue cheese, scallions, bacon and mushrooms

[Leggett28]

Looks delicious. You have posted some really good recipes. Thanks 😊 

[Kachina624]

That sounds sooooo good, but I'd have to make just half.  Some recipes just aren't made for singles.

[Sooner]

My mother would fry some bacon in a pan, drain off some of the the grease maybe, crumble the bacon and set aside then add cider vinegar to the pan, a touch of sugar and stir that up.  Then she would throw in big handfuls of torn curly spinach, some chopped green onion, and toss with the bacon and boiled egg slices.

I loved that but we didn't have it often.  She was very anti grease!  

This recipe reminds me of that.

[MoonieBaby]

Hi @Chi-town girl 

YOU FIND THE  B-E-S-T  RECIPES!

I'm shopping tomorrow - adding the ingredients I don't already have to my list and THIS salad will be our dinner tomorrow.

Looks delish!

[bluetail fly]

That's in the main what my mother did, and I stiil do.  Boiled egg slices optional.

My family loves it and likes to comment, while gobbling it up,  that I can turn a healthy food into an unhealthy dish.

[bluetail fly]

My post above was in reply to Sooner.  Obviously I don't know how to do that.