garden-variety dick 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.
Consider other oils?
I like to sprinkle a green salad with avocado oil and then a bit of
fresh lime juice and toss.
But walnut oil is famous and i even like the sesame oil, soy sauce and
sake for a salad dressing.
The various fruit vinegar's (as you note) are nice also.
Do you let your vinaigrette age?
I try to keep a cup or so of vinaigrette around, it improves with age
imo, however if i need it for use immediately i will add a pinch of sugar.
Even 30 minutes of wait time before use improves a vinaigrette,
dramatically imo, and 24 hours is correspondingly better.
I once made a blue cheese and buttermilk salad dressing with 1 whole
clove of elephant ear garlic. It took 3 days for it to peak out at a
really spicy hot flavor and then level off to something i could actually
enjoy eating 4 - 6 days latter.
However, several people who tasted it liked its initially overly intense
garlic flavor.
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