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How to make Orange Ginger Dressing

January 20, 2021

Orange ginger dressing is light and zingy. It’s perfect for your green salads, but also great for dressing grain salads. Made with only a handful of ingredients, this dressing is quick and simple.

pouring orange ginger dressing on salad

Salad dressings, like sherry lime vinaigrette, are easily made at home and are much less expensive than store-bought.

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Filed Under: Condiment, Salads Tagged With: dairy-free, dressing, gluten free, orange, orange ginger dressing, salad, vegan, vegetarian, vinaigrette

Oven Roasted Potatoes, Herbed Pecans and Honey Mustard Pecan Dressing

December 11, 2017

Oven Roasted Potatoes with Herbed Pecans | Pook's Pantry

Oven Roasted Potatoes

This post for Oven Roasted Potatoes with Herbed Pecans is sponsored by Idaho® Potatoes. As always, all opinions, recipe and photos are my own. Thank you for supporting the companies that support Pook’s Pantry.

Idaho® Potatoes roasted until crispy then tossed with toasted, herbed pecans and a honey mustard pecan dressing. These potatoes are packed with flavor and just a little spice.  This is a delicious side dish that would go beautifully with your holiday dinner.

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Filed Under: Side Dish Tagged With: Christmas, dressing, holidays, honey, nuts, pecans, potato, potatoes, sides, Vegetable

Honey Lemon Vinaigrette with Whole Grain Mustard

April 24, 2016

Honey Lemon Vinaigrette
Making your own vinaigrette is so easy, you’ll wonder why you haven’t been doing it for years. It takes a few ingredients and five minutes to get “better than store bought” salad dressing at a fraction of the cost.

The three most dreaded words in my vocabulary “Bathing Suit Season”.   It’s not that I have an issue wearing one, I hate shopping for them.   Come on, Girls out there…  Please tell me you have my back.   It could nearly be classified as torture.  I have to psych myself up for the task, give myself a little pep talk and promise myself a reward if I get it accomplished in record time.

When life gives you lemons, make a vinaigrette ~ Me.

The point is, we are eating A LOT of salads these days.  We always eat salad, but lately we are eating enough greens for a small village.   We have a few favorites, like this Butternut Arugula Salad, but I like to change it up fairly often.  One of the best ways to do that is with the dressing. Last year, we were at a family reunion and I was lucky enough to score 2 lbs of raw honey from a cousin who has bees.   That honey is incredible and makes the best vinaigrettes!   Making your own vinaigrette at home takes about 5 minutes and one of the advantages in doing it yourself is total control over the ingredients.  You know exactly what is in there.  No red dye #5,  no high-fructose corn syrup, no need for a PhD to decipher ingredients!   Just squeeze a few lemons, add in a little honey, blitz it & stir in whole grain mustard.  Easy Peasy, Lemony Squeezy.

This vinaigrette is good for more than just salad, I use it in a summer pasta salad (post coming soon) and it’s a great marinade for chicken!  This recipe makes about 3 cups of dressing and it will keep in an airtight container in the fridge for 5 – 7 days.   Five minutes of work for a vinaigrette you can use all week!  That’s a pretty good deal.

Honey Lemon Vinaigrette with Whole Grain Mustard

Honey Lemon Vinaigrette with Whole Grain Mustard

A light homemade salad dressing with honey, lemon and mustard

Prep Time 2 minutes
Cook Time 3 minutes
Total Time 5 minutes

Ingredients

  • 6 fl. oz. freshly squeezed lemon juice, about 4 big lemons
  • 6 TB raw honey
  • 1 TB whole grain mustard
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp pepper
  • 1/2 cup olive oil
  • 1 1/2 cups canola or grapeseed oil

Instructions

  1. Combine lemon juice, honey, salt and pepper in a deep bowl or container. I like to use quart containers (Tall deli containers or large soup containers from takeout)
  2. With an immersion blender (or regular blender), combine all ingredients for about 15 seconds and SLOWLY drizzle in olive oil, then canola oil.
  3. The texture and color will begin to lighten as it emulsifies.
  4. You will see oil on top and then suddenly, it will be a perfectly blended dressing that holds together instead of looking separated.
  5. When dressing is nice and thick, add in whole grain mustard and give it one last blast with the immersion blender to combine everything & Voila! Dressing, Done!

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© Cheryl Bennett

Filed Under: Salads Tagged With: dressing, Food, healthy, honey, lemon, mustard, salad

Homemade Herb Vinaigrette Salad Dressing

April 20, 2012

homemade herb vinaigrette

Homemade herb vinaigrette is one of the easiest things to make. If you are not confident in the kitchen, this is a great place to start getting your feet wet. A handful of ingredients and 5 minutes is all it takes to make something delicious.

Now that Spring is in full swing and the Farmer’s Markets are replete with the good stuff, it’s time to start putting those veggies back into the rotation.

Some people tend to look at salads as the obligatory precursor to the main event.  Granted, if someone serves you a bowl of pre-cut lettuce and gloppy dressing, it is barely even that.  However, with a little creativity and a blender you can make something that is beautiful, delicious, good for you and even those that tend to resist eating “rabbit food” may even get on board.

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Filed Under: Condiment Tagged With: dressing, fruit, herb vinaigrette, homemade herb vinaigrette, how to make vinaigrette, salad, salad dressing, Vegetable, vinaigrette recipe

It’s all Greek to me…

May 14, 2011

Most of us are trying to eat healthier these days & lose a few pounds before we have to put on the dreaded bathing suit.  I am among the masses doing the very same…   I’ve been eating so much lettuce I’m afraid my front teeth are about to elongate into Bugs Bunny teeth.

The problem with salads, although to be quite honest I do like them,  is the dressing.  You think you are making a good choice by eating a salad for dinner and then you pour on a claggy dressing that has a ton of fat in it so you opt for the (sometimes chemical-laden)  fat free variety,  which in my book isn’t always the lesser of two evils.

Making salad dressing at home takes 5 minutes at most and is so much heathier and tastier that it really is worth the very minimal effort.

Tonight’s dinner was a Greek salad and chicken, so I made a Yogurt Dill dressing to tie the flavors together.

(A helpful hint to catch the lemon pits is to put a small strainer on top of the blender)

 
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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: cucumber, dressing, lemon, salad, yogurt

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