Baby Spinach Salad with Balsamic Roasted Potatoes, Parmesan Bits and Sweet Dijon Balsamic Vinaigrette

If you think back (if you are old enough) to the 1970's, spinach salads were all the rage.  Since then, they seem to have fallen out of fashion, though, you know how people say that everything comes back into style if you just wait long enough?  I aim to ensure spinach salad will so be the "it" salad on restaurant and home kitchen plates everywhere.  

This salad was a fabulous mix of potatoes roasted with balsamic and olive oil, crispy rendered bacon and, not wanting to let the bacon fat go to waste, a few sauteed cremini mushrooms right in the same pan.  A few slices of sweet onion and some bit flaked off a block of Parmesan cheese along with a vinaigrette made from Dijon, garlic, honey, balsamic and olive oil and it's a hearty and filling dinner salad and you won't even miss the steak!