HEARTS OF LETTUCE WITH THOUSAND ISLAND DRESSING

Hearts of Lettuce with Thousand Island Dressing image

Provided by @MakeItYours

Number Of Ingredients 15

1 head of bibb or iceberg lettuce
4 pieces of bacon, cook crisp and crumbled
1 cup mayonnaise (homemade is best!)
1 Tbsp chili sauce
1 Tbsp ketchup
1 heaping tablespoon finely minced white onion
1 heaping tablespoon finely minced red bell pepper
1 heaping tablespoon relish (sweet or dill)
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp prepared horseradish, or horseradish cream
Several squirts of Tabasco, to taste (use your favorite hot sauce)
1 tsp mustard
1 pinch celery seed
2 pinches paprika
salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste

Steps:

To make the dressing, mix all the ingredients together. Taste as you go to get the exact proportions the way you like them. Refrigerate the dressing until you are ready to use it. Make it ahead to give the flavors a chance to develop and mingle.
For the salad, take a nice tight head of iceberg or bibb lettuce and cut it in quarters. Cut out the core and put each wedge on a salad plate and spoon the Thousand Island dressing liberally on top. Garnish with lots of crumbled bacon.