I mean let’s be honest – the best part of the salad is the dressing – unless there is some cheese hiding in there. But the grocery stores have failed me – they are all sweet or just bleh tasting and expensive.
So I’m on the hunt for a collection of fantastic sald dressing recipes.
The qualifiers
- Not sweet!
- Somewhat healthy – I mean by no means do I want oil and lemon – the standard 1980 diet throwback – but let’s be reasonable.
- I hate blue cheese
- Fairly easy to mix – please don’t turn my salad into a 30 minute need degree from culinary school, experience.
If this works I’ll post some new recipes here for us all to try.
Here are some winners.
1. Cashew Tamari – just like Mother’s Cafe
-for about 3 T of canola oil put 1 t of tamari (which is a soy sauce, much more rich and flavorful than your run of the mill soy sauce)
-crush some cashews – voila
2. a little canola oil, a little lime, a little bit of spike seasoning (or other all purpose seasoning) – that’s it. This one was especially good with avocado in the salad