"Jean B." wrote:
>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.

Hail Caesar!

I love anchovy... I use mashed anchovy paste for eyebrow pomade...
then I lick it off! hehe