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Salad Dressings

My salads are walnuts coleslaw, bag of ready done salad, a tomato, some cucumber, radishes, beetroot (fresh not pickled) celery, sweet red or yellow pepper, some finely chopped onion,black pepper (freshly ground) some really good olive oil and red wine vinegar with a sprinkle or squeeze of lemon or lime juice. If from a real lemon/lime I usually cut some very thin slivers and chop them to tiny bits before throwing them on top.
I do have a zester somewhere - I must look it out so I can add in more lemony goodness.
 
Resurgam said:
I do have a zester somewhere - I must look it out so I can add in more lemony goodness.
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I'm not sure what a zester is, but the finer grate on one of those works just fine. It's one of my most used kitchen implements, I use it for cheese, cauliflower, celeriac, lemon peel, ginger, turmeric, carrots, cucumber, and probably a couple of other things.
 
Equal volumes of Balsamic vinegar, virgin olive oil with Dijon mustard and crushed garlic to taste. Put in a bottle and shake to emulsify. If you don't use too much you can add a teaspoon of honey.
 
Bittern said:
Equal volumes of Balsamic vinegar, virgin olive oil with Dijon mustard and crushed garlic to taste. Put in a bottle and shake to emulsify. If you don't use too much you can add a teaspoon of honey.
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Not sure I would add honey....
 
If you are looking for store-bought dressings -- Caesar's dressing is usually fine. About 2g of carbs per 100g. Ranch dressing is slightly carbier, but generally okay too.

This week I made Caesar's dressing at home. Not too difficult and I have more control over the type of oil used.
 
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A zester has a series of small rings with sharp edges and sliding it along the skin of citrus fruit removes slivers of the very outermost skin, which contains the oil/flavour of the fruit.
 
Antje77 said:
I'm not sure what a zester is....
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Mine looks like this - small and neat and you hold the citrus fruit and scrape the skin off in tiny strips with it as opposed to rubbing it against a standard grater and getting little bits:

 
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