Spinach Salad

All you need is a nice loaf of crusty bread to go with this salad and you have dinner! (how easy was that?!)

½ cup  extra virgin olive oil

½ cup  red wine vinegar

¼ cup  chopped red onion

¼ cup   sugar

1 ½ tsp  paprika

1 tsp dry mustard powder

1 tsp  salt

½ tsp  freshly cracked black pepper

10 oz   bag baby spinach

4  slices crisply* cooked bacon broken into bits

2  hard boiled eggs, sliced

8 oz   artichoke hearts, drained and cut in half

Mix all dressing in a jar and shake. Set aside. Immediately before serving, mix all ingredients in a large salad bowl and toss with the dressing. Enjoy! 

* for crisp bacon - preheat oven to 400. Place the bacon side by side on a cookie sheet (do not overlap) cook for 15 minutes and drain on paper towels.  Take a cooking scissor and cut into 1/2 inch pieces.