Super salad dressing

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.