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I'm curious what the most popular salad dressing is.
Personally I love salads. I like Red Wine Vinaigrette and Caesar the most, but coming from an Italian family, I also have a lot of experience with table dressing at Nonna's house. Basically, "Italian" dressing on American supermarket shelves is a farce. Actual Italians make a salad, pour olive oil and red wine vinegar over it (at a 3:1 ratio) and then add salt. Try it, it's actually really good.
I pour Balsamic on first then the olive oil. Is there a correct order? I always assumed that the Balsamic would run off the oil but adhere to the lettuce, hence Balsamic first olive oil second. Like to know what the authentic way is.
I don't like ready made dressings at all. Way too many ingredients and they usually add the most ridiculous things like sugar. Making your own dressing is so easy I don't really see the point of store bought ones.
My favourites tend to be vinaigrette types of dressings. I love Balsamic , with extra virgin olive oil , dijon mustard and a few herbs or Olive oil with a little squeeze of lemon juice, mustard and a tiny spot of acacia honey.
I have quite a few different types of mustards ( including a fabulous honey and basil one ) so they all make excellent bases for dressings as well as different oils and vinegars.
One of my favourite mustard is purple mustard made with grape must and all it needs is a little emulsifying with some good oil.
Walnut oil and vinegar also make a wonderful dressing , perfect for a green salad with walnuts and blue cheese.
Last edited by Mooseketeer; 09-15-2010 at 09:02 AM..
My two faves are
-my own balsamic dressing - aged balsamic, olive oil, truffle oil, salt and pepper
-real Japanese toasted sesame dressing - from a Japanese store - not Kraft or something like that.
Ranch has been the top-selling salad dressing in the United States since 1992. Before that, it was Italian.
Interesting that city-data forums defy the average consumer.
I'm not so surprised. Ranch is just a bunch of powdered stuff, fake food that nobody knows what's in it.
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