Have you ever ran out of a bottle of store-bought salad dressing, and wondered how to make a simple homemade dressing? If you have these ingredients, you can make a dressing.
I was always told that people drowned their salad in dressing (and bacon bits, and ham, and cheese, etc.) to make it tolerable before choking it down. Here’s an idea: what about using the dressing to bring out the flavors of the salad leaves? Duh. It should’ve been used for good rather than evil to begin with. We’ve been going about it backwards this whole time!
When my husband and I were in Croatia last year, we were invited to dinner at someone’s house. The woman cooking dinner was praised at being the best cook around. I agree, it beat out all restaurants for the entire 2 weeks we spent there. The morning of the dinner, she pressed olives for her own bottle of olive oil. It was SO good. I poured it on everything. I purposely poured too much onto my plate so I could sop it up with the bread. And you know how she made the salad? With the homemade olive oil, salt and pepper. That was it. It was so simple I smacked myself in the forehead, with the bottle of olive oil of course. Then I sopped up the mess with more bread.
Simple salad dressing
Directions:
1) Drizzle Extra Virgin Olive Oil onto salad as you would a normal dressing. Salt and pepper to taste. Squeeze some lemon juice on top, but it’s not necessary.
Add any extras you’d like. I added crumbled feta cheese, olives stuffed with feta, and sliced tomatoes. We were on a feta/olive kick lately.
With summer on the way, a salad like this would be perfect.
I agree. It’s refreshing :)
That’s how Scott’s mother makes her salad dressing- makes the lettuce seem more crisp! Thanks for the post.
Their friends from S. France taught us another salad dressing recipe: olive oil, balsamic vinegar, dijon mustard and chopped garlic (make all to taste). It’s quite bulkier b/c of the mustard, but goes nice with spring lettuce and spinach and also rocks as a baste for chicken.
Joanna – I’ll have to try that sometime. For some reason I never have balsamic vinegar on hand, only lemons. Chris likes the vinegar more though. I’ll have to marinate chicken with it too!
I “stumbled upon” your website this morning. Thank you. It is so beautiful and the recipes look wonderful. I am making your risotto with asparagus tonight for supper. I have bookmarked your site and will return often
Mary N – Thank you for the comment! You made my day with your kind words. Thanks for visiting my site and I hope you like the risotto!