Homemade Blue Cheese Dressing

1 1/2 cup Mayonnaise
1 cup buttermilk
*** You may use more or less of either buttermilk or mayonnaise depending on how thick you want your dressing. Remember as you let the dressing chill, it will become slightly thicker.
1 teaspoon accent
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon coarse black pepper
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoon parsley flakes
1/4 cup crumbled blue cheese

Combine all ingredients except crumbled blue cheese in a bowl. Mix with wire whisk until smooth. Add in blue cheese and stir with spoon. Add time to chill before serving: This is pretty mild if you like more blue cheese add it.

Pomegranate Salad




The top picture shows what a sweet pomegranate looks like. When making this salad you should use only the sweet pomegranate. This is a recipe that has been in my family for generations.
We always have this salad on Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Pomegranate Salad for 10 people
4 sweet pomegranate
4 apples Fuji, gala or jonagold cut into small pieces with peeling on
4 bananas sliced
1 cup walnuts
1 pt. Heavy whipping cream whipped and sweetened.

Pomagranate Salad

4 apples I like Jonagold or fuji chopped into bite size pieces
4 bananas sliced
chopped walnuts optional
1 pint heavy whipping cream whip with sugar
4 SWEET pomagranates.
cut pomagranates around the radius, then you hold them in your hand with the seeds facing your hand. then with the end of a butter knife beat the pomagranate the seed wil come out and fall in your hand.
Make sure you use the pink pomagranate not the red.

Maggiano's House Salad

For The Salad:

5 C romaine lettuce, bite size
5 C iceberg lettuce, bite size
1 small red onion, thinly sliced
4 ounces blue cheese or Gorgonzola cheese,crumbled
6 thinly sliced pieces of prosciutto ham
For the ham I put it in between a couple sheets of paper towels and microwave it until crispy then break it up into the salad.
I also like to cut up a peeled cucumber into chunks and add that.

For The Dressing:

1 Tbsp Dijon Mustard
2 Tbsp sugar
3/4 C water
2 tsp fresh garlic,minced
1/3 C red wine vinegar
1 Tbsp Salt
1 C vegetable oil
Fresh black pepper to taste
But everything into a blender and mix-

The dressing ends up making alot you will have leftovers for another salad! - Lindsey

Poppy Seed Salad And Dressing

This is another of my families favorite salad, I will give you the original recipe, I adjust it to the ingredients my family likes.

All Leafy Lettuce I usually use 1 head red lettuce and 1 head romaine
water chestnuts
Mozzarella cheese
purple cabbage
cucumbers
raisins
Mix all ingredients together.
Make this dressing in a blender
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
1 cup salad oil
1 TBLS. Poppy seeds
1 tsp. dry mustard
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup chopped red onion (I have tried white onion it is not as good)
Mix in blender, DO NOT PUT ON SALAD UNTIL READY TO SERVE.
It will go soggy.