I have a secret 🤫. I don’t really like salad. I mean, I like the idea of a salad. Cold, crispy lettuce with all the requisite accoutrements (fancy talk for all the salad bits) is good for you, right? As a Type 2 diabetic, fresh produce fills up at least half of my shopping cart every week, so vegetables and I are great friends! I love them all. (Except eggplant. But that’s a story for another day.) But there’s something in the texture of lettuce itself that just squeebs me out. So, I make salads that are full of other bits. Vegetables of varying textures and flavors, maybe a protein, and a good acidic dressing – those are the elements of my dream salads. And this salad right here is definitely one of them. My BLT Salad with Tomato Bacon Vinaigrette is a play on a traditional Italian Panzanella salad of tomatoes and bread, with a few playful additions of my own. (Read more…)