Possibly not the most beautiful subject for a photo. These are dipping sauces/salad dressings. I was sick of making them crazy-style during the dinner chaos, so thought at the Sunday bean soaking party I have with myself, I'd also make big batches of sauces and dressings.
I used these pretty mundane jars. I really wanted to make these in wonderful jars for this photo, but had none on hand, and really, I am taking a photo of my salad dressings here (only on a blog) so why pretend that they are in nice jars? But they taste really good! We have a super basic group here, nothing unusual, but good to always have on hand:
a dipping sauce
1 part soy sauce
1 part rice wine vinegar
a bit of sugar
a bit of toasted sesame oil
honey mustard balsamic vinaigrette
2 parts olive oil
1 part balsamic vinegar
a bit of honey
a bit of Dijon mustard
salt and pepper
raspberry vinaigrette
2 parts olive oil
1 part raspberry vinegar
a bit of sugar
juice of a lemon
salt and pepper
I taste as I go and often add different things each time. I am in love with walnut oil—so I try to use that when I have it. I usually add herbs and chopped shallots too. Especially to the
raspberry dressing. I heart shallots. I am never without them. Even though I have made these dressings/sauces for a long time, there was something thrilling about taking out all my oils, vinegars, mustards, etc. and making these all at once. Like a big stinky science lab. There are a ton of recipes here in the condiments section of MSLO. Very inspiring. I was going to look at Epicurios too, but had to join up, so I did and then realized I already had joined god knows when, can't find my password. . . I hate this, and it happens to me all the time. So I haven't looked there yet.
I am itching to do a big kitchen spring cleaning. I did go through my baking cupboard last weekend, god, what an uncomfortable thing to do—I was on the floor covered in old pans, stuff was everywhere, (of course this was on a lovely Saturday morning, disrupting breakfast, and taking over our very small kitchen) but it was worth it—I found not one, but two bunny shaped pans squirreled away! Who knew?
