Recipe for Bacon Dressing with Honey and Red Wine Vinegar (2024)

Bacon.

Bacon.

Bacon.

Are you a bacon lover too?

If the answer is yes…we can be friends.

If not…well, we can probably still be friends, but you likely won’t enjoy my cooking!

Recently I received a Cast Iron Grill Press from Good Cookand I was challenged to use it to cook bacon.

Which suited me just fine, because as you know…I am a bacon lover!

I typically cook my bacon in the oven. While you CAN use this Cast Iron Grill Press in the oven up to 500 degrees…I wanted to try it on the stove.

You see, sometimes you need to make your bacon on the stove.

For instance, this amazing bacon dressing that I LOVE to make.

We’re talking bacon grease (for the oil), red wine vinegar (for the vinegar), honey, dijon mustard, salt & pepper.

It gets better.

After you mix all of this goodness up, then you add it to a salad that’s already topped with blue cheese (essential to really get the most flavor out of this dressing!) and the bacon bits that supplied this amazing bacon grease goodness.

It’s.To.Die.For.

You COULD bake your bacon in the oven and pour the grease off the baking sheet, but that can be a bit dangerous!

Better yet, cook it on the stove top with your Cast Iron Grill Press and once you remove the bacon…voila! Just mix in your other ingredients.

No dangerous grease transfer.

Just wonderful-ness.

*Note* In the below pic, I did not use a pan. My pan was being used for something else. Usually…I’d use a pan though!

I decided to REALLY put this Cast Iron Grill Press into action though by cooking half the bacon under the grill press, and the other half off the grill press.

The promise is that the press keeps your bacon from crinkling and shriveling up.

I’d say it delivered, right?

You could also use this Cast Iron Grill Press to make sandwiches, burgers, cook chicken faster, etc. Possibilities are endless!

Clean up is a cinch and it’s small enough to fit into one of your kitchen drawers.

Perfect.

I suspect this new kitchen tool from Good Cook will be seeing a lot of use in my kitchen from now on.

Bacon Dressing

Ingredients:

• bag of salad (whatever you like. I prefer spinach or romaine)
• blue cheese
• 6 slices of bacon (I prefer center cut) – be sure to reserve at least 3 tablespoons of the grease
• 3 tablespoons of red wine vinegar
• 1 tablespoon of honey
• 1 teaspoon dijon mustard (you can use a bit more if you want more of a honey mustard flavor)
• salt & pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Cook your bacon in a skillet on the stove top.
2. Once bacon is nicely browned, take the bacon off the pan (turn off heat) and make sure you have around 3 tablespoons of grease still in the pan (pour some out if you need to).
3. Add red wine vinegar, honey, dijon mustard and salt & pepper to taste while stirring with a whisk.
4. Put your salad, blue cheese and crumbled bacon into a bowl.
5. Dress the salad and toss it just prior to serving.
6. Enjoy!

Interested in purchasing a bacon press for yourself? Right now, you can take 25% off any of the Good Cook Burger tools on Good Cook with the coupon code BACONLOVERS.

By the way, there is currently a Get Stuffed Burger Event going on on Good Cook’s website. I was supposed to participate in this challenge and am so bummed it didn’t work out! However, you really should go check out some of the AMAZING submissions and vote for your favorite !

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Disclaimer: I was provided the Cast Iron Grill Press by Good Cook. All opinions are my own.