Sunday, June 27, 2010

Green Salad with Sweet and Tangy Dressing

I made salad dressing! And, I liked it! Actually, the dressing wasn't anything fancy, since I picked a recipe that I could make with ingredients that I already had in the house. (In the future, I think I might try out a poppy seed dressing, but I honestly don't even know where in a grocery store you find poppy seeds. With the spices?)

Here's the salad that I made, which was modified from one I found on allrecipes.com.

Green Salad with Sweet and Tangy Dressing
(approximately 4 Weight Watchers points per serving)
  • Lettuce: I used a mixture of baby spinach and romaine
  • Feta cheese
  • Grape Tomatoes (these were just for Chris- I don't eat raw tomatoes)
  • Other good additions/substitutions for next time would be dried cranberries or crumbled bacon
Dressing:
  • 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
  • 3 tablespoons sugar
  • 2 tablespoons red wine or balsamic vinegar (I used red wine vinegar)
  • 1 tablespoon sour cream (I used light)
  • 1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
  • You can add fresh herbs, grated Parmesan or freshly ground pepper if you like
Combine salad dressing ingredients in a jar with a tight fitting lid. Shake well to combine, then drizzle over salad. Unused dressing can be stored in the fridge for about a week or so.

By the way, here's my jar with a tightly fitting lid. A baby bottle. Hmm, maybe I could invest in an actual salad dressing bottle someday, so that it would look more like the picture at the top.

2 comments:

  1. You could start making and selling your own salad dressing.. Aunt Martha's Old Fashioned Salad Dressing we'll call it. Then we'll go on TV and shoot a commercial! Yes! This plan can't fail!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu_2Hadt-s8

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