The Salad Dressing Thread
 

I LOVE RANCH! And who doesn't? Now, why is it that the ranch in most restaurants a) taste the same, and b) can't be found anywhere else (e.g., the market)?

In general, I like creamy vs. oil/vinegar based, though I do like the occasional olive oil and salt on my leaves. Exception: bleu cheese... bleh!

I make my own kick-butt vinegarette, with apple cider vinegar, honey, salt, herbs, and (the key) truffle oil.

No dressing, please.

A bit of salt and pepper.

And good croutons.

Salad is basically an excuse for eating croutons.

ranch dressing

I like most dressings from Ken's Steakhouse. Lite Caesar and Lit Vidalia Onion are my favorites. A good Thousand Island on well chilled greens can't be beat either.

I like ranch and oil/vinegar dressings, but my favorite is a poppyseed dressing at one of my local restaurants. I can't find it anywhere and haven't tried to make it yet.

Lazy cook here: I was just wondering about a decent bottled ranch dressing to use as a base for chipotle/lime dressing--yum! Ken's? Newman's? Marie's?

For me I would take that creamy japanese sesame seeds dressing (don't know the name) or a imple olive oil and balsamic vinegar !

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I love bleu cheese dressing!! I don't like raspberry vinagarette, which so many restaurants offer these days.

^ ^ ^ Fully agree. I love bleu cheese, ranch, creamy Italian and yes, Thousand Island dressing. On US Airways the salad of mixed weeds (another topic for another day) comes with raspberry vinagarette. YUCK !

I'll second blue cheese. I usually use Ken's. Sweet blue cheese dressing is a turn-off, especially with buffalo wings.

I haven't made my own in awhile. Since I'm off this week for Spring Break, it gives me an excuse.

I also like Catalina type French. I can't use most of them as they are often made anymore with high fructose corn syrup which I can't have with a corn intolerance. WalMart's brand of Honey French still uses sugar instead.

Catalina French is particularly good if you put some cottage cheese on your salad before using the dressing... and then the croûtons. :)

I like Maries Bleu cheese, its a little expensive and deinitely not for the calorie challenged.

I'm strange in that blue cheese is the only salad dressing I don't like. I like several others including raspberry vinagarette. I like more salad than dressing so usually have it on the side. My husband's favorite is blue cheese.

I loosely follow Dr. Oz's diet book and avoid high fructose corn syrup whenever possible.

A little freshly squeezed lime juice and some decent olive oil: that's all you need. I can't abide any dressing beyond that: particularly not vinaigrettes.

I agree that a simple homemade dressing is good. I like mixing lemon joice, olive oil and fresh herbs.

There's a Thai place near my home that has delicious warm peanut dressing they drizzle on salad. It's not heavy like peanut sauce.

Green Goddess - an old favorite that is not overly sweet