brooklyn1 wrote:
> 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.

I forget whether you like anchovies, but one can also make a very
strong dressing with the oil from a tin of anchovies plus vinegar.

--
Jean B.