This salad is so fancy I feel like I should be charging myself $15 just to eat it.  A bed of baby spinach topped with sliced sirloin steak, sauteed thyme mushrooms, crumbled goat cheese and a hot caramelized onion vinaigrette.  Can’t you just picture that salad gracing the menu of a fancy restaurant?  People like to toss around terms like “flavor profile” and espouse about the combination of flavors in a dish, but all I can say it that this salad is flippin delicious!

Imagine a perfect steakhouse dinner.  Steak.  Mushrooms.  Spinach.  Now, imagine that perfect dinner transformed into a mouth-watering, one-plate salad.  A bed of tender baby spinach wilting under a hot caramelized onion vinaigrette.  Thinly sliced steak paired with earthy thyme mushrooms and melting goat cheese.  With food this good at home, you won’t ever have to go out again!

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Have you heard about this big football game that’s coming up next week?  It’s this once-a-year excuse to go all out, throw dietary caution to the wind and eat massive quantities of wings, dips and chips.  Or is that only at my house?  From what I understand, this is a nationwide phenomenon.  In case you are suffering from a last minute panic about what to make for the big game, I’ve compiled a list of my favorite football appropriate recipes, starting with this so-good-you’ll-want-to-eat-it-with-a-spoon onion dip.

I know that it’s so simple to grab a packet of powdery nothingness to whip up a batch of onion dip, but who is excited about telling their guests that the dip they are consuming at a furious pace came from a powder?  Astronauts eat food that comes from a powder.  Us earth dwellers should expect better.  This dip is so far beyond powder-based dips that you will never go back.  This takes traditional onion dip and cranks the volume up to Irrationally Good.  You may have to hide your spoons.

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