Aemono is a Japanese cooking term that can refer either to an uncooked sauce used as a salad dressing, or to the salad itself made with it. As a dressing, it’s a thick dressing (often based on puréed tofu) to coat the food items in a salad. When used to refer to the entire salad…
This is a robust salad dressing with sharp, strong, savoury tastes. It’s particularly good with salads made out of milder-tasting items such as pasta, potatoes, beans, etc.
Tastes great, with little work.
Today, we don’t think twice about making salad dressings or mayonnaise based on oil. Up until the end of the 1800s, though, if you didn’t live in Southern Europe with its ready access to olive oil, you might have been stumped. There were no vegetable oils yet available to you. The plethora of bottled vegetable…
Caesar Salad © Denzil Green Caesar Salad was invented in 1924 in Tijuana, Mexico, by a man named Caesar Cardini who ran the restaurant and night club called “Caesar’s Place.” At the time, Tijuana was a hotbed for nightclubs and eating out, being just across the Mexican border — a border which during the 1920s…
You always have a dressing on hand within minutes if you have these simple ingredients.
Green Goddess Dressing is a creamy herbed salad dressing. The main ingredients are anchovy, garlic, mayonnaise and vinegar, along with parsley, tarragon and chives for colour, and other seasonings. some versions will combine the tarragon and vinegar by calling for tarragon vinegar; some versions will swap in green onion for the chives; some versions call…
Because this dressing omits vinegar, you’ll find that salad greens with it on last far longer.
This is a creamy dressing with a very light lemony taste and texture — very refreshing in the summer. And it’s also incredibly light on your waist line, coming in at just 26 calories per tablespoon.
Mayonnaise is a very thick, creamy sauce served at room temperature or chilled. It can be used as a sauce, a dressing, and or a condiment. It is made from oil and raw egg with something acidic added such as vinegar or lemon. The oil and the vinegar would normally separate. However, lecithin in the…
Just be careful not to overwork the mayonnaise in the blender.
Miracle Whip is a bottled, commercial salad dressing that looks like mayonnaise. Made by Kraft, it is sweeter, tangier, and somewhat less expensive than mayonnaise. It has been sold for over 70 years now, and has been used so widely that many people prefer it to the real thing. In the year 2000, it was…
Ranch Dressing is a thick, creamy, rich-tasting dressing made from mayonnaise, buttermilk and herbs. It is popular as a condiment on burgers and sandwiches, and as a dip for vegetables, pizza slices, deep-fried bar foods, etc. There are many brands, because recipes cannot be patented, and because though the “Hidden Valley Ranch” part of the…
A great ranch dressing recipe.
There are a bewildering number of opinions as to what constitutes Russian Dressing, so many in fact that one might be tempted to say that this can’t be considered an actual, defined item in the kitchen. But then, without Russian Dressing, there’d be no such thing as a Reuben Sandwich or a Crab Louie Salad,…
Salad Cream is a pour-able, pale yellow boiled dressing sauce with a creamy consistency. It’s a close cousin to Miracle Whip, though it’s not thick like either Miracle Whip or Mayonnaise. Rather, it has the thickness of a very thick pouring cream or of bottled salad dressings such as Ranch. It’s thick enough that sometimes…
“A salad dressing is best described as an uncooked sauce and, like all sauces, its role is to enhance the flavor of the food.” — 1997 edition, Joy of Cooking. The American Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) recognizes and defines three types of salad dressings: French dressing, Mayonnaise and “Salad Dressing” (e.g. all others.) [1]…
A gusty dressing that can hold its own.
This is a North American mayonnaise-based salad dressing that is flavoured with tomato purée, chopped boiled eggs, and other seasonings. It is mostly obtained commercially. Kraft is a major seller of the bottled dressing. As well, the Inn where it was invented sells 5,000 bottles a year. Oftentimes, the main different between Thousand Island Dressing…
