Salad Dressing Recipe

SALAD DRESSING -- 3 PARTS TO 1 PART (the magic fomula)

For all the beautiful fresh greens that you’ll find at the farmer’s market – don’t use those “bottle-tasting” bottled dressings! Use the magic formula of 3 parts OIL to 1 part ACID for your homemade dressing.
For your nightly salad all you need is 3 Tablespoons of a good olive oil and 1 Tablespoon of a good acid – mixed in a small bottle or dish – and you’ve got the makings of a wonderful vinaigrette dressing. Fresh tasting and so easy!

Now for the fun part – you can add all kinds of frills to this basic formula – you can add:

*A clove of garlic
*a pinch of oregano or other herb
*a very small pinch of sugar, s & p
*a teaspoonful of Dijon mustard
*a small clump of fresh herbs

You should use a good virgin (first-pressed) olive oil -- Or:

Experiment with olive oils infused with flavorings – such as

*blood orange olive oil
*Meyer lemon olive oil
*pomegranate olive oil

For the acid, there are a myriad of choices. The most basic choice is
balsamic vinegar. It’s a very special treat for yourself to keep a really good (and expensive) balsamic oil on hand just for this use in vinaigrettes.

Other acids to use are:

*Lemon jujice
*sherry vinegar
*Champagne orange vinegar
*Champagne balsamic vinegar
*Black Fig vinegar
*D’Anjou Pear vinegar

Wonderful oils and vinegars are available at all specialty stores – Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Wilson’s, other country stores. And of course there are homemade herb vinegars to be had – information on that to come in ensuing weeks!