This is a recipe that is a complete original and is great
for any salad. It sounds a bit spicy but it really is not. I came up with the idea after going through
all the stuff I usually add to my salad and I said hey why not make a dressing
that incorporates this stuff.
Now I use a blender to make my vinaigrette, yeah I know
Bobby Flay and Emeril use a whisk on TV but at home one of them uses a blender
and the other can’t cook. So take out
your blender and blow the dust off it. Most
of the recipes you see for vinaigrette tell you to incorporate the oil slowly
to get a better emulsification. Well I
have done it that way and it does stay suspended longer but how much are you
going to make? If you are making a week’s
worth; first of all why? But sure
incorporate the oil slowly. We are
making a salad worth today so we will do it another way.
Into your blender throw ¼ cup or franks red hot.
1/4
teaspoon of cumin
1/4
teaspoon of paprika
¼
teaspoon of pepper
Now when I say ¼ teaspoon I mean use the ¼ teaspoon to scoop
with but you can heap it up a bit if you like, even take two if you want.
½
teaspoon of mustard
½
teaspoon of mayo
These help the mixture stay together.
Turn you blender on and toss in ¾ cup of oil. A bit about oil, olive oil is the healthiest
oil to use.
There is no argument
here, it just is. Now a lot of people say they do not like olive oil because of
the strong flavor, and they have a point.
Olive oil comes in three varieties, extra virgin, virgin, and just olive
oil. The variety use to be based on how
the olives were crushed. First squeeze
was extra virgin, the second- virgin and the rest was just olive oil. I do not know if that is true now that it is
mass marketed but one thing is true, the higher the level of oil the more
flavor it will have. So just regular
olive oil has very little flavor and usually cost less. No, canola oil is not a good alternative. Canola oil or (Canadian oil) which is where
the name comes from it just oil squeezed from the rapeseed plant. You remember those we use to grow them to
make mustard gas now we have no use for them.
The oil in not unhealthy or dangerous it is just another type of vegetable
oil. So, if you do not get olive oil and
this is for salad all the vegetable oils and about the same.
So blend for like 30 seconds and wow the best dressing you
will ever taste. If you like to spice it
up a bit I add some ground red pepper and a shot of tabasco.
Ok, so this is a week of firsts and lasts. We finally got someone to let us make their
wedding cake. And I say we because my
wife did quite a bit to make this whole thing go well. I searched the web for useful information and
I did find one site that was helpful, thank you Edna. Most of the sites I watched were kind of
like Michael Jordon doing a video on how to dunk, see just jump up and stuff
it. Looking back it was kind of amusing
to watch Edna smooth her cake in like 2 minutes, a task that took me 2 days.
So the cake ended up ok and it will be the last butter cream cake we
do. I choose butter cream because most
of the sites seem to use it and it is supposed to taste better. Well fondant cannot taste bad enough to be
worth the trouble of trying to smooth that cake. So if you need a cake (locally) let me know,
but it will have fondant. I would like
to first congratulate Mr. and Mrs. Martin Schreiber (Marty and Gabby) and thank
them for letting us give this a try. 
