Wedge Salad Bites

Turn your favorite steakhouse salad into a fun appetizer with this easy recipe for wedge salad bites! Perfect for picnics, dinner parties or anytime.

The Southern husband is helpless in the face of a good old wedge salad – that classic combo of iceberg lettuce, bacon, tomatoes and blue cheese dressing.

So much so that not only did I figure out my own version of the old classic wedge salad, but I also came up with a fancy pressed wedge salad with shrimp…well, as fancy as I ever get anyway.

However, just the way that I can restrain myself from making 349,242 versions of macaroni and cheese, I keep coming up with new ideas for how to bring some wedge salad deliciousness into my true love’s life, and this time it is arriving in appetizer form!

Appetizers are pretty much all I have the strength for these days, as we are coming down the home stretch in terms of getting ready to move.  Pretty much every surface looks like this…a pile of stuff to be packed, and in between all of that we are trying to spiff up any stray picture hanger holes here and there for the new owners.

Let’s just say it’s entirely appropriate that my SIMPLIFY sign is off the wall and lounging around on the kitchen counter.  It’s enough to make me want an extra large glass of wine to go with my wedge salad bites, I’ll tell ya.

Here’s how you make wedge salad bites!

Grab a head of iceberg lettuce and out 24 small wedges. The easiest way to so that is to cut the whole head of lettuce in halves, then in quarters, then in eighths, and to cut the eighths into sections.  You want bite-sized chunks of lettuce.

Now ook the bacon until it is done and drain on paper towels. Don’t make it too crispy, as you want to be able to get it on a toothpick or skewer without it breaking.

Grab your skewer or toothpick and thread it with a cherry tomato half, a piece of bacon, a lettuce wedge, then another piece of bacon, then another cherry tomato half.

Arrange your wedge salad skewers on a pretty platter, drizzle with your favorite blue cheese dressing and you are done!

These make for fun picnic food (save the drizzling until you get to the picnic) and they are the perfect start to a summer dinner party.

Or if you are moving, they make a perfectly acceptable finger food supper, because WHO KNOWS where the forks are?

Accepting all moving during a pandemic good luck vibes,

Kate xoxo

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Turn your favorite steakhouse salad into a fun appetizer with this easy recipe for wedge salad bites!  Perfect for picnics, dinner parties or anytime.

• Author: Kate Morgan Jackson
• Prep Time: 20 minutes
• Cook Time: 5 minutes
• Total Time: 25 minutes
• Yield: 24 1x
• Category: Appetizer
• Method: Stovetop
• Cuisine: American

Ingredients

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• 1 head of iceberg lettuce
• 8 strips of bacon, cut into 8 pieces each
• 24 cherry tomatoes, halved
• Blue cheese dressing for drizzling

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Instructions

1. Cut out 24 small wedges from your head of iceberg lettuce. The easiest way to so that is to cut the whole head of lettuce in halves, then in quarters, then in eighths, and to cut the eighths into sections.  You want bite-sized chunks of lettuce.
2. Cook the bacon until it is done and drain on paper towels. Don’t make it too crispy, as you want to be able to get it on a toothpick or skewer without it breaking.
3. Grab your skewer or toothpick and thread it with a cherry tomato half, a piece of bacon, a lettuce wedge, then another piece of bacon, then another cherry tomato half.
4. Arrange your wedge salad skewers on a pretty platter, drizzle with dressing and serve!