Caesar Salad

Caesar salad
Caesar salad
Caesar salad is a perfect light meal!

Years ago, before we became dedicated scratchers, we would try different Caesar salad dressings from the store, but we could never find one with which we were entirely happy. Most were just plain bad: too much salt, too much garlic, too bland, and so on. The least bad of those we tried was supposedly the original Cardini’s Caesar dressing, and we got our Caesar salad fix from that for a number of years. But, one thing bothered us: the ingredients list. We knew that the salad was invented sometime in the 1920s, but the ingredients list had items that wouldn’t have been available. Things like: soybean oil, xanthan gum, corn syrup, caramel color, rosemary extract. This could not be Caesar Cardini’s original recipe.

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Scratched Mayonnaise

freshly made mayonnaise

Everyone should know how to make mayonnaise. Really. Truly. It’s not that difficult, and it’s much tastier than that store-bought glop in a jar. Besides, if you really want to impress someone, serve something like asparagus with homemade aioli (garlic mayo). Continue reading “Scratched Mayonnaise”

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