Tip: Salad Dressing

Making your own salad dressing is an easy cost saver. Homemade dressing is preservative free, seasoned to your liking, fresh, cost effective, and as easy as hitting the pulse button on the blender.

Here is the recipe for a favorite salad dressing of mine. When this is served on our dinner table the salad is gone!

Oriental Dressing

6 tsp. rice vinegar
2 tbsp. lemon juice
1 tsp. white pepper
1 1/2 tsp. dried mustard
1/2 c. oil
1 tbsp. sesame oil
4 tbsp. sugar
1 1/2 tsp. salt

I toss all the ingredients into a ketchup type dispenser like the one in this picture* and shake.

*My dispensers are clear with an easy to use lid and were very inexpensive at the dollar store. I use them for honey, soy sauce, and syrup which I buy in bulk, making the containers much too large for the kids. I also use them for salad dressing.

More dressing recipes can be found at:

• recipezaar.com
• Make Your Own Salad Dressings
• Muriel Hemingway's Amazing Spinach Dressing (this is really, really, really good and easy - everything gets tossed into the blender, I see this recipe uses olives - I've never heard that before and haven't ever tried it that way)

Any great dressings to share? Or homemade dressing powder mixes to share?