Spinach Salad

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This recipe comes from my Mother-in-law, I was one of the first recipes that I got a hold of once we were married. It is simple and oh, so good. I regularly get requests for this salad.

To start out we need to make the dressing, either the morning before it is to be served, or the night before, I needs time to sit.

This is what we need for the dressing:

1 cup oil
1/2 cup vinegar
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp dry mustard
1 Tbsp Poppy seeds
1 package sliced mushrooms


Mix all the ingredients, except the mushrooms in a container with a tight fitting lid, this dressing is shaken, not stirred.

I usually use this, a little over kill I know, but it works!

Then add the mushrooms to the shaken dressing, the ones I bought were HUGE! I broke them into smaller pieces.

Put the lid on and give it a good shake, then find some counter top that it can sit on all day. Everytime you pass it, give it a good shake.
The mushrooms soak up the dressing….it is so good!

The Salad itself consists of very few ingredients:
Spinach
cooked Bacon
Swiss cheese
marinated mushrooms

right before serving spoon the mushroom out of the dressing into the salad with a slotted spoon.

Add the bacon and cheese, and toss. Add more dressing as needed, usually you don’t need to add much more the mushrooms carry a lot of dressing with them.

I served this salad with grilled hamburgers.


Everybody in my family loves this salad, there was very little left over and even the littlest in the bunch ate some.

This is a favorite at my house.

4 thoughts on “Spinach Salad”

  2. This is a great series. I’m going to try some of these salads this summer, when it’s too hot to cook in the oven. I also like to cook with a crock pot in the summer.