On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:16:07 -0600, Omelet <ompomelet@gmail.com>
wrote:

>In article
><75cf2f23-7d9f-455d-bb3b-e3594a1c59e1@r5g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
> garden-variety dick <x.smiling_tiger@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I've had trouble eating my daily salads without putting lots and lots
>> of store brought dressing on it; especially blue cheese dressing. I
>> can't stand a normal salad with just a homemade simple vinagrette
>> dressing for more than two days. Until now. I've started to make my
>> salads a tad different, and now find that I enjoy eating them every
>> day.
>> What I've done is to use roughly equal amounts of veggies in the
>> salad, and changed the vinagrette slightly.
>> example:
>> One handful of romaine lettuce, one handful of sliced cabbage, one
>> handful of thinly sliced carrots, one handful of sliced scallions, one
>> and a half handfuls of sliced celery, one handful of sweet red
>> peppers. In a stainless steel or whatever bowl. Then add: freshly
>> ground black pepper, a few shakes of lemon pepper, a wee bit of salt
>> (to taste), a small amount of honey(to taste; I don't like it too
>> sweet), olive oil, and some apple cider vinegar; about equal to the
>> amount of olive oil(I know it's supposed to be in a 3:1 ratio, but
>> this is how I like it). Toss the salad. It's really great, at least
>> according to my tastes. I really like the cabbage in there.
>
>Another two good low fat salad dressing ingredients are soy sauce and
>mustard. :-)
>
>
So are yogurt and tomato sauce, separately or blended together... just
add seasonings. An 8 oz tin of plain old tomato sauce blended with a
cup of mayo (use low fat if you like), with s n'p, a smidge of
vinegar, a spoon of brown sugar, a pinch of 'talian herbs and
granulated garlic. A glass of white wine with apple cider vinegar,
toasted sesame oil and a spoon of apricot jam makes a great oriental
slaw dressing. Crumbled blue cheese with low fat yogurt works. And
don't forget citrus, wine, and beer. There isn't a bottled dressing
on the shelf I can't make, make better, and make with very little
effort... never measure either. Easiest salad dressing is a tin of
olive oil packed bristling and juice of half a lemon... sardines and
olive oil are far tastier than olive oil with that totally tasteless
dago fetus style mozz. I don't see the point to pouring olive oil on
fresh mozz, wastes both ingredients, unless yer a guido with TIAD.