Earl Cooks an Iceberg Wedge Salad

We first ate a wedge salad at Tony Roma's many years ago. I believe we were eating there for our anniversary, and we were quite amazed that something which required so little preparation produced such great results! As you know, it is a bit of a stretch to say that a salad is cooked...it is really assembled, but I did cook the hard eggs and made bacon crumbles from strips of bacon.

If you have never tried Wishbone® Chunky Blue Cheese Salad Dressing, you should. It was chosen by America's Test Kitchen as their off-the-shelf favorite. I usually eat their fat free variety, but their full fat is marvelous! 

Traditionally lettuce is simply quartered, but it is tough to dress and eat it this way, especially if you add quite a few components, and we usually do. Tonight ours included grape tomatoes, hard cooked eggs, green onions, bacon, blue cheese, and a few capers. It was our whole meal and it was very good. My wife, a.k.a."Turkey", usually a dainty eater, made it look like she had licked the plate clean. And I enjoyed mine, remembering fondly that first wedge salad at Tony Roma's, a restaurant now lost to us.