Here is one of those times when you should not buy cheap. Homemade salad dressings need good salad oil or olive oil. In this instance I used salad oil and a Danish Blue cheese. The store was out of Roquefort and The Danish was really more of a green veined and well aged cheese. Surprisingly not as expensive as I had thought it might be. A 4.4 ounce package was $2.89, which leaves some to crumble on their salads also.
Counting the cost of the salad dressing and the salad ingredients a large salad will run about $3.24 apiece. This is adding some of my farm eggs hard boiled and sliced and some fresh fried bacon to the salads along with tomato, onion, green peppers and croutons. I used some lemon juice I had in the freezer. Nice to have for just a few tablespoons.
Not a bad cost for a supper that is light and still filling. When the main meal is going to be a salad, both Sue and I tend to make Salad Dressing at home. Most basic cookbooks will have good recipes to start you off, and you can add flavors from there. Also you can make a smaller amount and have a variety of dressings, not a lot of large bottles you will end up throwing away. At the cost of groceries today that is just tough to do.
Roquefort or Blue Cheese French Dressing
1 cup salad oil
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoon paprika
3 tablespoons lemon juice or vinegar (Herbed or wine vinegars work well)
3 ounces Roquefort or blue cheese
½ small onion minced
Mix the seasonings and the lemon juice (be sure it is fresh lemon juice) or vinegar , slowly add the salad oil beating with a wire whip, blender or electric mixer. The oil needs to be added slowly to mix in well. Add the crumbled cheese. Pour into a jar or container, keeping in mind this is fairly smelly and the smell might not come out of plastic well.
Store in refrigerator and shake well before using.
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