55 House Salad

diner524's Note:

There was a chain of restaurants in the Columbus, Ohio area that had this awesome salad as their house salad. I don't like blue cheese, so asked for it to be omitted, but loved the combination of bacon, lettuce and dressing. When the salad was brought to the table, they then offered fresh ground black pepper. I think this recipe was posted in the Columbus Dispatch Newspaper. NOTE: Due to this being a restaurant recipe, it makes a alot of dressing, about two cups, so you might want to cut the amount of dressing to 1/4 or 1/2 of this recipe.

• Total Time: 15 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 0 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 6

• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup white vinegar
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 -4 teaspoons garlic powder (to taste)
• 1 head lettuce, chopped
• 5 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
• 4 ounces blue cheese, crumbled
• 1 small red onion, thinly sliced

Directions:

1. Combine first four ingredients for the dressing in a container and shake well.
2. Put the lettuce in a bowl, sprinkle with bacon, blue cheese (if using) and red onion rings.
3. Drizzle enough of the dressing to coat or to taste along with freshly ground pepper (optional) and enjoy.

Reviews

[sizlegal]

We used to get this salad all the time, I make it with Marzetti's Poppy Seed Dressing, romaine lettuce and croutons, everyone loves it, have made it for years and they all want the recipe

[mommyoffour]

Loved this salad. I made this to go with a lasagna we were having for dinner and it was a hit. I subbed in feta for the blue cheese (what I had) but it tasted great! I really like the dressing for this. Yummy. I halved the recipe for 4 of us and I have some leftover dressing thats calling my name for lunch. Thank you for sharing this delicous salad recipe.

[mommymakeit4u]

Awesome salad! I halved the dressing, which still ended up being too much for a salad for 5 people. Next time I will 1/4 it. Will be making this one again!