Recipes Salads Spinach Salad Spinach Salad with Warm Bacon Vinaigrette 5.0 (3,066) Add your rating & review Chef Way Preparing the salad dressing is a multistep process that includes letting chopped shallots soak up the flavors of mustard, thyme and vinegar before mixing them with olive oil.Easy Way Start the salad dressing in a skillet (no marinating involved), then finish it in a bowl with all the other ingredients. More Salad Recipes By Jose Garces Jose Garces Instagram Chef Jose Garces is regarded as a culinary expert in Spanish and Latin American cuisine, known for his expertise as an Iron Chef, a James Beard Award winner, an entrepreneur, and a food innovator with a restaurant group in Philadelphia. Food & Wine's Editorial Guidelines Updated on September 28, 2017 Print Rate It Share Share Tweet Pin Email Photo: © Tina Rupp Total Time: 25 mins Yield: 4 Ingredients 3 strips thickly sliced lean bacon, cut into 1/4-inch strips 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 shallot, minced 2 tablespoons sherry vinegar 1 tablespoon whole-grain mustard 1 teaspoon chopped thyme 2 small plums, sliced into thin wedges, or 4 fresh purple figs, quartered One 5-ounce bag of baby spinach Salt and freshly ground pepper 1/4 cup marcona or other salted roasted almonds, coarsely chopped 2 ounces crumbled blue cheese, such as Cabrales 1/4 pound thinly sliced serrano ham or prosciutto (8 slices) Directions In a large skillet, cook the bacon in the olive oil over moderately high heat until browned and crisp, about 6 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in the shallot, vinegar, mustard and thyme. Scrape the dressing into a large bowl. Add the plums and spinach, season with salt and pepper and toss. Add the nuts and crumbled blue cheese and toss again. Transfer the salad to plates, top with the sliced ham and serve. Rate it Print