Recipe - Warm Salad Of Frisee And Baby Spinach Mushrooms Bacon Sw

=== SALAD ===
4 Frisee heads
12 ounce Smoked bacon; (homemade or
other)
8 Shallots ; (to 12)
One fourth cup Balsamic vinegar
One fourth cup Grenadine
16 ounce Locally foraged mushrooms;
such as
Chanterelles; boletes,
chicken of the
Woods;
And lobster mushrooms
Olive oil
Kosher salt; to taste
Freshlycracked black
pepper; to taste
Fresh thyme
1 Ficelle (abt 12");
Or French bread of choice
1 pound Baby spinach
=== VINAIGRETTE ===
4 ounce Sherry vinegar
4 ounce Virgin olive oil
4 ounce Soy or canola oil
1 Garlic clove (to 2);
crushed
Salt; to taste
Freshlycracked black
pepper; to taste

Salad: Wash the frisee well, trim the root end but leave it attached, and
cut the heads in half. Remove the rind from the bacon. Cut bacon into thick
lardons, slowly render the fat, drain and dry lardons on paper toweling.
Peel the shallots, slice them into 1/4inch rings, toss them in the mixture
of hot balsamic vinegar and grenadine and reserve. Clean and trim the
mushrooms. Toss them with olive oil, kosher salt, cracked pepper and fresh
thyme then roast them and reserve. Cut the ficelle into 16 thick little
slices. Vinaigrette: Combine all vinaigrette ingredients. To Assemble: Warm
plates in a low oven. Have all components prepped in advance. In a separate
pan or lightlyoiled baking dish lay the seasoned bread for croutons in a
single layer. Sprinkle lightly with oil and toast quickly in a 425 degree
oven. Place in the warming oven. In a large pan sear seasoned halves of
frisee in a scant amount of soy or canola oil. Transfer them to the warm
oven. In the same pan add the bacon, shallots, roasted mushrooms and half
of the vinaigrette. Heat thoroughly. Remove plates and frisee from the
warming oven. Spoon hot mushroom mixture across frisee. In that same pan
again, lightly wilt spinach with a splash more vinaigrette and plate it in
a separate little pile next to the mushroom braise. Arrange croutons over
the salad. Garnish with coarsely chopped herb confetti. This recipe yields
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