Spargel und Eier Salat a layered asparagus and egg salad

Now I am not saying that this is what everyone will want to eat but I will say that everyone should try this salad. It has everything that you would want from a salad and I could think of nothing better than nice fresh asparagus, good dry cured bacon , hard boiled eggs and one of those sort of sweet and sour dressing that seem to typify a German salad

You will need.

450g/1lb Asparagus

4 slices bacon

75g/2½oz red onion

8 hard-boiled eggs

250g/8oz baby spinach leaves

10 cherry tomatoes

115g onion, diced very fine

115ml/4floz cider vinegar

115ml/4floz water

100g/3½oz sugar

Salt and Pepper to taste

Firstly cook your asparagus so it is slightly crunchy. Then your boiled eggs so that you still have that nice dark just cooked yellow in the yolk. Half the cherry tomatoes  pick your spinach and sliced the  red onion as thin as you can.

Now heat the water and bring that to the boil add the sugar and let that just dissolve in to the water.  Take that off the heat and add the cider vinegar then the very fine dice onion and just let it cool down.

Now you have you Dressing  and you ingredients prepared  for the salad you can start to build it up. Start with some asparagus then some spinach then slice the eggs and lay them across and finally some half cherry tomatoes. Repeat this in the construction of the salad. 

Now in a hot pan fry your bacon, make sure that it is good dry cured bacon, only the best. Once that is nice and crisp lay this on top of the salad and then drizzle the dressing all over the salad liberally.

I do not know why but any salad that has bacon in it is a winner for me, it is just the thought of the hot bacon and the crisp leaves that make me really think you can get no better.