With only a few ingredients, this wedge salad with blue cheese dressing recipe goes from ordinary to amazing. Save time and money by preparing homemade!
When my husband and I were in the middle of the busy child rearing years (oh, only about the last 30 years or so) we knew we could count on date night on special occasions.
His birthday, my birthday and our anniversary. And that was about it!
Can anyone else relate?
It was hard to find the money to both go out and pay a sitter but I knew I could look forward to at least three good meals a year!
Our restaurant of choice was usually Outback Steakhouse.
The big question? Why is it some foods always taste better somewhere else? I’ve always thought this true for salads in particular.
Tim doesn’t especially enjoy salads but as he gets older (just him, not me, because I stopped counting at 29!) he loves to get a wedge salad at Outback.
Now that our kids are older we have a lot more flexibility but we usually confine our date night to buy one get one coupons.
After all we are a one income family right now (because this happened and then it happened again!) and living a frugal lifestyle is just in our blood.
When I decided to make his favorite salad I realized why he loves it so much.
One word. Bacon.
(For the man who thinks turkey stuffed with Cap’n Crunch and wrapped in bacon would be his ideal Thanksgiving meal!)
And blue cheese chunks.
I made him this wedge salad with blue cheese dressing and it was a hit at our house, even if I did have to prepare it myself.
I totally underestimated how many sections one head of lettuce could be cut into. I bought three heads of lettuce for four people. Think that was too many?
We were eating salads for days and fighting over the bacon!
And just because I can I’ll leave you with a picture that typifies our relationship. (Obviously this was in the pre-blonde years!)
Enjoy!
Wedge Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing
- 2/3 cup crumbled blue cheese
- 2/3 cup mayonnaise
- 1/3 cup low-fat sour cream
- 2 tsp water
- 1 1/2 tsp red wine vinegar
- 1/2 tsp worcestershire sauce
- dash cayenne pepper
- 1 large head iceberg lettuce washed and drained
- 2 cups chopped tomatoes
- 6 bacon strips cooked and crumbled
- Remove core of lettuce and dark outside leaves, rinse head and drain.
- Mix the first seven ingredients together in a small bowl.
- Cut lettuce into six wedges.
- To serve, top wedges with dressing, tomatoes and bacon.
If you love bacon cook more than recipe calls for!
Feel free to spice up the dressing with a little more cayenne pepper or even crushed red peppers (which my husband loves.)
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This looks so inviting. I’ve always wanted to try a wedge salad but have never gotten the chance to for some reason. This gives me the push to try it! Thanks for sharing, I would love for you to stop by the Throw Back Thursday’s link party going all weekend long!
Love this wedge salad! Thanks for linking up with What’s Cookin’ Wednesday!
Thanks so much, Karly!
I too love a great wedge salad! It’s fresh, crisp, simple and the bacon! For the love of all that’s yummy, the bacon!!!
Hey, Nikki. Yes, the bacon is always the best part! I think it should be its own food group!
I’m looking for the actual recipe of the blue salad dressing that Thank God It’s Friday makes. I’m ordering these salads every day at near $5 a pop … so getting way too expensive. But when I tried the TGIF salad dressing and then I tried several different types of bottled blue cheese dressings, they were all too vinegary tasting, … not nice and creamy and smooth like TGIF. This recipe, adding Worcestershire sauce and red wine vinegar, I don’t believe that’s in TGIF’s dressing. I’ll keep searching or try to determine myself what the heck they use to make it, all I know is that it is so fabulous, not as sharp as regular blue cheese dressing.
Hi, Carly. It’s so funny that you came to my blog looking for TGI Friday’s recipe for bleu cheese dressing because I represented them as a brand ambassador for several months! I’m not sure I tried that particular salad but I’m sure it was amazing. Let me know if you find the recipe because I’m sure it is delicious! Have a great day!
Haven’t had blue cheese for ages; looks delish. Bbetter put it on the list!
I hope you enjoy it, Sara! Thanks for sharing!
Love that photo of the two of you 😀 Classic and I must admit I’ve never heard of a wedge salad before but I’m sure going to try it. That blue cheese dressing sounds divine and I’m not even going to talk about the bacon, yummy
Thank you, Michelle! Husbands don’t always like taking pictures, do they? The wedge salad is the one salad my husband will eat without fussing! Enjoy!
Love this recipe and we have lots of lettuce in the garden now. Thanks. I love the before photo, too!!
Good for you for growing a garden, Deana! I hope you enjoy the recipe!
Loved the story and the blue cheese salad is not bad either. Thanks for sharing.
You can’t go wrong with blue cheese can you, Anita? Thanks for sharing!
I love the wedge salad at Outback and BJ’s. Funny how a wedge of lettuce and bacon elevates a salad to fabulous!!
Hi, Linda. I totally agree with the bacon and blue cheese! Amazing!