salad dressing poll!!

Caesar with anchovies, plz

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bleu cheese

I struggled between bleu cheese and Caesar, but I prefer bleu cheese on a burger/chicken wings to on salad.

Dijon mustard
Red wine vinegar
Olive Oil
Salt & pepper
Blend +
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Winnar

Dijon mustard, splash of red wine vinegar, walnut oil, well-emulsified.

Sesame oil, rice wine vinegar, touch of sugar, sesame seeds

Greek yogurt, lemon juice, herbes de provence

In deference to the very name, I rarely salt the dressing. I usually pre-dress and salt and pepper the lettuce and then add whatever else is going in and dress that with the remainder.

I eat a LOT of salads.

got some Newman's Own Cranberry Walnut on my lunch today.

I don't salt the lettuce because the extra undressed lettuce goes back into the fridge for tomorrow and salt would kill it. But that's an idea.

Also: Hazelnut oil!!

laurel that's my default dressing and i love it too, also try just a tiny dash of cayenne pepper

i voted for blieueaeu cheese

Newman's Own Parmesan and Garlic!

It's all good, and though I usually go with boring balsamic + olive oil I've been on a mustard kick lately.

There are some good ideas on this thread!

i've been into mustard + apple cider vinegar + honey + spices lately
i am kind of anti-store-bought dressing

LOL OREO

Sesame oil, rice wine vinegar, touch of sugar, sesame seeds

this is great too - i add a small bit of soy sauce too, esp if salad has chicken in it

crushed/minced clove of garlic + mustard + vinegar + salt + honey, whipped up real good

then whip in some olive oil, poured into it in a thin stream

oh yeah duh i forgot abt the olive oil and the garlic!

i need to step up my salad game

"handfuls of spinach out the bag" is my preferred recipe at the mo

I kind of think of salads as Northern France/Southern France, Italy usually. The northern stuff gets walnut oil or hazelnut oil or canola and has wine vinegar and mustard. The southern stuff, I often rub the bowl with garlic, use olive oil and more lemon juice than vinegar.

this is great too - i add a small bit of soy sauce too, esp if salad has chicken in it

Yeah, depending on what's going in the salad, soy, fish sauce, chili oil, etc...

That's awfully general, though. Every salad has its own requirements based on what's in it.

MW will you be my personal saladmaker?

ew

:)

lock thread, jaymc got it right in post #2.

Sure Jordan, as long as I don't have to toss it. ;)

You know what I've been doing a lot recently? The ole baked cheese on toast topper. I had some walnut bread this week and some Humboldt Fog that I baked till it bubbled and skinned over.

As fall progesses, I'll start to move toward the warm/wilted salads like the romaine dressed in a champagne vinaigrette and grilled and served with dolce latte (or roquefort, depending on whether you want to turn toward the sweet or the savory).

Lemon juice and olive oil and that's it. The greatest dressing I've ever known.

I don't salt the lettuce because the extra undressed lettuce goes back into the fridge

I only salt the dressed lettuce in the bowl. I've just been dressing my lettuce separately a lot lately - a good thick, emulsified vinaigrette should coat the leaves well without drenching them and I find that easier when I don't put too many other things in with it.

why is balsamic vinegar and olive oil two separate options? who puts just olive oil on salad? and where is lemon as above?

Yeah, I should have made them one option. Although you never know with people and salad, people are crazy.

lemon = other

maybe in the midwest

zing

Goddess seconded

Green Goddess is so much better handmade, though, and hardly difficult.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

if the midwest gets wind of this poll it'll be ranch in a landslide

Gah! A landslide of ranch dressing sounds like a nightmare.

if the midwest gets wind of this poll it'll be ranch in a landslide

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sadly otm

m white is incredibly otm throughout entire thread.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I love ranch but I voted Bleu Cheez.

Buttermilk rules. Do not be a hater.

Wait a minute! ONE vote for ranch? ONE vote for raspberry? Crikey, ILE is salad dressing foreign country to me. Gosh I hope we never have a get together or something cause I would not be happy with the dressing choices!

i'm so fucking sick of vinegar

Amen. Sick of vinaigrettes, and sick of mayonnaise-based dressings. Wish there was some other way (that isn't Oreo).

lemon

use a flavoured vinegar or oil?

can't stand mustard on a salad either. if i wanted mustard i'd eat a sandwich.

Jacques Pepin does a dressing for Boston Bibb lettuce that is heavy cream whipped just enough to thicken it a bit, then flavors it with, er. . . red wine vinegar. But you could use a really mild vinegar (rice?) and it would be different from the usual vinaigrette, I guess?

xp…My coworker does that. She's both Nicaraguan and super health-conscious, so I thought it was just a thing with her and not actually a thing in general.

I guess what I'm getting at is that despite the decades (centuries?) of dressing salads, we've never really made it beyond the two main categories of dressings. I'm interested in more alternatives. They don't have to be healthy.

cook yr greens

Maybe some sort of roasted pepper pureed with a little stock?

Those two suggestions might work. I was thinking that maybe I just hate salad. Nothing more disappointing than wanting a hearty meal on a cold night and looking down at a pile of cold, wet leaves.

can also think about asian style 'cold' dishes

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Don't cook salad greens, though. That's just wrong. Braise some collards, instead.

Or kale or mustard greens or turnip greens.

I hear you, naus. No dressing will make a salad into not-vegetables. They just make them palatable enough to bother with in between meals of meat and cheese.

Yes, Dayo! I think I've had something similar as part of the banchan at a Korean restaurant, and thought it was great. I could eat that as a salad all the time.

Some of my favorite salads I've had at home were using freshly-made guacamole as a dressing. I've also used pico de gallo. I'd like to go further with those ideas, like trying to make a creamier guac more suitable for salad use.

store-bought italian + ~ 5g crushed red pepper

And Laurel, I like vegetables! I've actually been veg. since 2001. Just never liked leaves by themselves.

oh man now I'm dreaming of a soy sauce avocado mash with salad leaves

I appreciate vegetables for adding their tastes as a counterpoint to foods I like. Sandwiches with tomatoes, meatballs with kale, roast pork with garlic spinach, etc. I'm into the avocado-based dressing idea--how would that work? xp haha

a favorite way to eat an avocado that I may have learned on here - cut in half, fill the little hole left by the pit with some soy sauce, mash with a fork and eat!

closely allied is eating a soft-boiled egg by biting off the top and adding a few drops of soy sauce into the runny yolk

XP That sounds like it'd be worth trying.

this shit is super delish im in love deeply

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bleu fuckin' cheese

Blue cheese vinaigrette

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