For those of you that make your own...how do you do it? Vinegar and oil I love, but how do yall snazz it up? And could it really be better for you?

I have made my own dressings, but not because it is better for me.
I just like them. I also have a couple french dressing recipes that we like.
These are good on a salad or use for cole slaw.
You can keep for a couple weeks in the refrigerator.


Poppy Seed Dressing

1 cup sugar
½ tsp salt
½ cup vinegar
1 tsp grated onion
1 ½ cups salad oil
1 tbsp poppy seeds
Mix everything together except oil and poppy seeds. Slowly add oil while blending . Add the poppy seeds. Store in refrigerator.

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Teel’s Café salad dressing

2/3 cup sugar
1 tsp dry mustard
1 tsp salt
1 small onion grated
1/3 cup vinegar
1 tsp celery seeds
1 cup oil
Blend in blender adding oil slowly. store in refrigerator.



Shirley

In a hurry I will either mix olive oil and a tiny it of vinegar (because I don't like it much) and some herbs

Or add mayonnaise and ketchup

Or fruit juice with a tiny bit of olive oil

Plus the recipes I posted in the Cafe

Cooks Recipes | Salad Dressing Recipes Page 1 at CooksRecipes.com

Salad dressing is like bbq sauce or meat marinade in that you can take almost anything you like and mix it in to suit yourself!!!

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Our favorite is a Betty Salad Dressing, which resembles a sweet red french. Probably not the best, but delish!


Whisk the following in a medium bowl, then refrigerate overnight.

3/4 c. sugar
1/3 c. catsup
1/4 c. white vinegar
1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
onion--i use a small pear onion that I finely grate w/a microplane. The recipe calls for much more, but I find it over powering.
dash salt and pepper
dash mustar powder if you have it or a drop of yellow mustard.
dash of paprika

Shirley, those dressings sound yummy! I printed them to try. Thanks all for sharing!

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i make 2 on reg. basis
greek
1 cup red wine vinager
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup garlic olive oil
2 tablespoon penzeys greek seasoning

roqufort or blue cheese

1 c mayo
1 c sour cream
1/2 c rice wine vinagar
1/2 c white wine
3 oz roqufort or blue cheese [mashed]
1/2 tesp salt
1 tesp ground black pepper

blend well with mixer

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I'm not a big lover of oil and vinegar type dressings. But I'll make creamy dressings like blue cheese, creamy garlic, creamy Italian, etc.

I occasionally will make oil and vinegar, but I'll usually just use Good Seasonings dressing mix to do it. Actually, I usually only use the oil and vinegar ones for marinating meat, so I usually just buy a bottle and it lasts quite a while around here.

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Linda

lfaivre,

Could you please post your recipie for the Creamy Italian? It's my fathers favorite and very hard to fin a good one in the store.

Thanks.

Sure, I'll post it this evening. I'm at work and can't quite remember it, but it's basically a packet of Good Seasons Italian dressing mixed with mayo, vinegar and water. I just can't remember the amounts off the top of my head.

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All these recipes sound so good, I rated this thread 5 STARS!! I can't wait to try some of these recipes.