The is probably the greatest salad dressing recipe ever.

From the interwebs. I went looking for this recipe because Maggiano's has the most fabulous house dressing and we're having a cook out today for Father's Day.

Enjoy. Extremely simple to make, although I did halve the recipe. Cheap, too. The most expensive thing was the dry mustard, but I only used about 1/8 of the can. Oh, and I made it in my blender because it was right on the counter rather than digging out the food processor.


Maggiano's House Italian Dressing:

1 oz. Colemans dry mustard
1/3 cup sugar
3/4 cup water
1 oz. garlic -- finely chopped
1/4 cup red vinegar
1 cup white vinegar
salt -- to taste
1 qt. corn or canola oil
1 cup virgin olive oil
2 tsp. crushed red pepper
2 tsp. fresh ground pepper
1 tsp fresh oregano

Combine mustard, sugar, water, red and white
vinegar, and salt in food processor. Mix
until smooth. Slowly drizzle in the oils,
continue to blend for 2-3 minutes. Transfer
to bowl and add remaining ingredients with
wire whisk. Store in sealed containers in
refrigerator. This makes 2 quarts of
dressing.

fresh spinach, red onion, feta cheese, a little hard boiled egg, crumbled bacon, and that dressing, uummmmm.

...to about 1/4 the specified amounts-- maybe eliminate the water altogether, frankly-- use the recommended amount of olive oil and red vinegar, adjusting for taste, but skip the canola oil and distilled vinegar altogether. That should get you less than 2 cups of dressing that tastes pretty darned similar....

Inquiring minds & alla dat...

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