Five salad dressings you should make from scratch

Salads are one of my favorite things to prepare and to eat.  They’re quick, simple and the combinations are endless.  Making your own dressing is as easy as shaking all the ingredients up in a jar.  In addition to being inexpensive to make, they’re free of preservatives and random ingredients that you can’t even say.  Most of the ingredients in these dressings are on my list of 55 Ingredients to have on hand at all times so you can whip up more than one dressing last minute without having to run to the store.

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55 Ingredients to have on hand at all times

I thought that my first official post should be food related, since food is what prompted me to start this whole project in the first place.  I’m a bit of a self-proclaimed “go-to” for food knowledge among my friends.  Now.  When I first started learning about food, it was somewhat of a self-inflicted accident.  My mom will say I was “a real fusspot” but I like to say that I was just particular.  As in, I don’t like when certain foods touch on the plate or certain textures, like cooked onions, or certain smells like raw onions, or certain tastes, like green onions. But I love A&W onion rings. Continue reading