What is your favorite salad dressing?

[Shell Beau]

Poll question: What is your favorite salad dressing?

This is for the guy who can't stand these kind of threads!!!

[Hugin]

1. A local ma and pa Italian restaurant mixes up their own.

It's my fav right now.

[Shell Beau]

3. Probably oil & vinegar. That is what all of the

homestyle Italian restaurants do around here. They already have it all over the salad!!Mmmm. And as much as people can't stand Olive Garden, I LOVE their salads!!!!!!

[LSparkle]

2. It's BLEU cheese or Roquefort for me!

[Shell Beau]

4. Oops, let me fix that!!!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

7. Is it a liberal thing?

Would conservatives like it better if it were Blue Cheese -- and not the *gasp* French spelling? I swear that I don't know a single conservative who will touch bleu cheese dressing.

[Shell Beau]

9. Well, I hate to say it, but I am not a fan of it at all. I have tried it

though! I find most rethugs like ranch!! But I like ranch too, not my fave, but I do like it.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

12. I know

Plenty of liberals don't like bleu cheese (it's an acquired taste -- I didn't start liking it until I was in college), but I've never met a single Republican who likes it. Ranch Dressing. Maybe some Italian or 1000 Island. But never bleu cheese.

[mike_c]

5. classic caesar-- here's my recipe....

Dressing:

1 clove garlic, peeled and pounded to a homogenous paste in a mortar-and-pestle with 1/4 tsp salt.
1/4 tsp dijon mustard
1/4 tsp anchovy paste
a few drops (no more) of Tabasco sauce and Worcestershire sauce
juice of 1/2 lemon
1 egg yolk
1 Tbsp good white wine vinegar or other vinegar to taste
1 cup extra virgin olive oil

Whisk together all the ingredients other than the oil a few times until well blended. Slowly whisk in the oil until the dressing is emulsified. Makes three or four servings of dressing. Keeps in the refrigerator for a couple of days.


Tear one romaine lettuce heart per two servings into bite sized pieces. Wash and spin dry. Toss with some of the dressing until the lettuce is lightly coated. Grate some fresh parmegano reggiano over the salad and toss to distribute. Add some croutons and toss again. Season with freshly ground black pepper.

I like to make a meal of this by eating a whole lettuce heart myself, with some leftover roast chicken, or ham, or thinly sliced grilled beef mixed in.

on edit: I like this salad so much that I eat some variant of it 4 or 5 times a week and never get tired of it. I just finished eating it for lunch!

[Shell Beau]

6. I knew I left a major one off of the list!!

[ghostsofgiants]

8. I'm a peppercorn ranch fan

But I don't use it on salad.

Zesty italian is also good.

[deadparrot]

10. Oil and vinegar.

:9

[Shell Beau]

11. Yep, that is also my fave!

[redqueen]

13. 1000 Island

I love vinaigrette, but it can't top my all time fave. :)

[Shell Beau]

15. I love to put Chow Mein noodles in my salad when I eat

Thousand Island. They just taste so good together.

[Burma Jones]

14. Green Goddess Dressing

1 cup Traditional Mayonnaise
1/2 cup sour cream
1/4 cup snipped fresh chives or minced scallions
1/4 cup minced fresh parsley
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
3 anchovy fillets, rinsed, patted dry, and minced
salt and freshly ground pepper to taste


I also like to add mashed Avocado

[Shell Beau]

16. That sounds good. I love avocado!