Apple-Bacon Salad With Honey Balsamic Viniagrette

• Honey Balsamic Viniagrette
• 1/4 cup good balsamic vinegar
• 3/4 cup your favorite olive oil
• 3-4 tablespoons honey -- start with three, then go to taste from that point
• 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
• 1 pinch thyme
• 1 pinch allspice
• Apple salad
• 2 Honey Crisp apples, sliced
• 4 slices good smoked bacon, fried crisp and crumbled
• 4 ounces dried, sweetened cranberries
• 2 ounces feta, crumbled
• 1/3 cup walnut pieces, toasted

1. Whisk all ingredients together. If you're ambitous, you can whisk everything and then whisk in the olive oil, making an emulsion that won't separate; I find it easier to just whisk it or shake it before I apply it. Set dressing aside.
2. Sliced unpeeled apples and arrange in a spiral patttern on a salad plate. Or, if presentation is not an issue, dice and put in a bowl.
3. Toss together the bacon, cranberries and walnuts. Put a portion of the topping over each plate of apples, or atop the apples in the bowl.
4. Drizzle viniagrette over salad. If you're working in a bowl, go ahead and toss, to get the apples nicely coated and turn them brown in advance of oxydation doing so.
5. Crumble feta cheese atop each portion, or the entire bowl.

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Taken from food52.com/recipes/8735-apple-bacon-salad-with-honey-balsamic-viniagrette (may not work)