T H I S C O B B S A L A D. Cobb salad by itself is a wonderful thing, but every now and then you need to switch things up and sometimes that switch up can lead to something downright delicious. I didn’t think it was possible but somehow the combination of bacon + avocado + tomato + h.b. egg gets even better when you bring in a creamy honey mustard dressing. This salad is what I’d call “Dad-worthy”. My dad will eat salads but he’s pretty picky about them and I remember all growing up, he’d make a bit of a joke about it whenever my mom would serve a salad as a side dish and he ended up really liking it. He’d always say “mighty tasty weeds!”. I know. So corny. But whenever I make a salad – side dish or main dish – I imagine my dad trying it and try to decide whether or not he’d give it is “tasty weeds” stamp of approval. This honey mustard chicken cobb salad is absolutely dad-worthy. Bacon? Egg? Avocado? Thick and creamy honey mustard dressing?? Oh yeah. My dad would devour this. Also, I can’t pass up an opportunity to point out that this recipe uses my favorite trick for main dish salads – using the dressing as a marinade for chicken. All it needs is thirty minutes in the fridge and that chicken will be full of yummalicious honey mustard flavor. A little tang, a little savory, a little sweet… it’s heaven.
