Could you make me a recipe please?

The recipe I'm looking for should be fairly simple, hopefully, as I'm still in the beginning stages of becoming a real live cook. I need a salad dressing!

Here is what would be on the salad in need of a dressing...

Baby Spinach Leaves
Tomatoes
(Perhaps onion, though probably not-Mr. H is afraid of onions)
Chopped hard-boiled eggs
Chopped up crispy bacon
Shredded cheese of some sort
(Perhaps mushrooms, though probably not-Mr. H and I are afraid of mushrooms)

I think that's it. Well unless you can think of something yummy to add to it. (FYI we tried gorgonzola cheese once and it was not a good thing).

What is missing is the dressing. The creator of the dressing is someone I'm no longer in touch with. The original dressing was home made with oils though a little thicker, possibly with some sort of light mustard. It was sweet and tangy. And very tasty. The dressing doesn't have to have mustard though.

Any ideas? Thanks!

P.S. Kelley and Bethany are not big on veggies but they love salad. As we all know iceberg lettuce has no nutritional value to speak of. Baby spinach leaves? Well I hope they are chock full of nutrients because the girls love them! How about your kiddos?

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i've got to brag...just a little!

if you know me then you know that i've never been considered domesticated in any way. for example, cooking. i rarely do it. i'm not sure why, i actually do enjoy it and my family has convinced me i'm not half bad at it. and now all of us have the advantage of the pioneer woman's new cookbook, she totally makes cooking fun and easy.

the brag, my success? well i can say that the pioneer woman doesn't get any credit. nope. none. it's all me!

last night was the big dinner for kelley's class. you know the one that we were supposed to make a dish that represented our heritage. i'm a mutt. i have no heritage. so i stressed a bit on what i should make. and decided to make the dish that i make best, my stuffed shells. i learned how to make them when i was 12 or 13. my recipe is long gone and i just make them without any recipe or rules. i tweak them here or there. and really it's not a hard thing to make at all. but when it comes to my heritage, i am pretty sure i don't have much italian in me at all. which is a shame because it's my favorite food and italy is number one on my countries i'd like to visit.

but still, i was nervous. i've never cooked for a group before. let alone a group of people i hardly know. as we sat the dish down on the serving table my heart kind of sunk as there was a big pot of spaghetti and tray of lasagna. how on earth were my little shells going to stand out and compete?

we were towards the end of the serving line. and the italian dishes were at the far end of the table. i about fell over from shock! when we made our way to the shells, they were ALL GONE! there was still spaghetti and lasagna...but no shells. wow!

however, maybe they just looked good. what if the people who scooped them up didn't like them? this made me even more nervous. that is until they started raving about the stuffed shells. i blushed. and i beamed. me...undomesticated me. had the most popular dish there. and let me tell you...there was some good food, real down home cooking type of food.

so i'm totally stoked! and this actually makes me want to cook more. funny if i cooked at all, it would be cooking more. as for my stuffed shells recipe? well it's hidden away in my mind and i've decided i better just keep it that way. ha-ha i have a secret recipe! now that's funny!

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need some scoop...on soup!

i tend to have food jags. i decide i like something and i can eat it day after day after day. and right now my food jag of choice is soup.

now, i could easily fill my urges with panera's soup. but this, as you can imagine, is not a great deal on the wallet. if they delivered...i'd suck it up. since they don't deliver, well i guess i can't have daily panera's soup.

store bought soup...eh not so great.

so here's where you come in-can you send some of your best soup recipes my way? i'm sure they would fit in the comments section. and there's also email. or you could spread the love, blog your best soup recipes and i, as well as all of your adoring readers can get them.

my only disclaimer? nothing fishy, seafoody, etc.

thanks a bunch and can't wait to get some yummy soup recipes!

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