Summer Spinach Salad!

This is one of our favorite spinach salads! 

We eat spinach all summer long, so be prepared for many MANY more spinach salads coming! 

This one is kind of a mix of all my favorite parts of a few different ones. So here ya go!

 INGREDIENTS:

Bacon

Spinach

Strawberries

Craisins

Sliced Almonds

Swiss or Mozzarella Shredded Cheese

(I usually always use swiss but this time used Mozzarella!)

 Cook your bacon--

Who else cooks their bacon this way??

This is THE BEST way! 

Much less messy, easier clean-up, and easier to cook to your liking (Crunchier etc.)

I cook mine on 400 for about 20 minutes.

Slice your strawberries.

Mix all ingredients in large bowl

(Depending on how big of salad your making depends on how much of the craisins, strawberries etc., you put in!)

DRESSING:

1/4 c. Oil

1/4 c. Red Wine Vinegar

1/3 c. White Sugar

1/4 t. Paprika

2 T Sesame Seeds

1 T Poppy Seeds

Mix all ingredients until sugar is fully dissolved.

Pour dressing all over Salad and Mix well.

DO NOT pour until right before servings.

(Will get soggy if sits to long!) 

We love this salad! 

What are you favorite Summer BBQ sides??
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Coconut Syrup! My family's Favorite!

We fell in LOVE with coconut syrup in Hawaii years ago, and this was my attempt to recreate it! IT IS SOOOO GOOD!

It needs to be refrigerated, and will get quite thick, we usually stick our jar in the microwave for a few seconds! (don't leave it in too long, runny syrup leads to soggy pancakes)

If you are NOT a coconut lover like me, you could use regular buttermilk, and vanilla extract, or lemon extract, etc...

Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies

We saw these cookies on pinterest and thought they looked so good!

We just used our own Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe,

because frankly, it is the BEST! 

And added the oreo!

During the process of making these we realized how fun it would have been to use the spring oreos and have that pop of color!

And then of course the peanut butter or mint oreos would be SOO good as well! 

umm... we nearly died when trying these for the first time!

they are so ridiculously good we cant even begin to tell you!

YOU MUST MAKE THEM!!

And please! Use our printable recipe card for yourself!