Birgit's Food Fetish and Recipe Blog

First, these recipes are largely family recipes. I will try to attribute sources as much as possible, though some have been altered a bit from the original. Second, please excuse weird grammer and spelling. If I tried to edit everything I post, I'd never post anything. Third, some of my comments aren't for the faint of heart, since I can get kind of technical and biological about cooking and some of the ingredients. So, read at your own risk!

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Egg Salad and Ceasar Salad Dressing

I'm just posting a couple of recipes I came up with and had floating around on index cards so I could find them if I needed them. So, here they are.


Non-boring Egg Salad
(this addresses my major complaint about egg salad.)

3 eggs
Onion powder to taste
Fresh ground black pepper, 1/8-1/4 tsp
Pomegranate blush balsamic vinegar
2 tsp chipotle mustard
Sriracha
Hellman's mayonnaise

Of course, now I see that the egg salad was a work in progress. Hmm. Guess I'll have to try it. My notes on the card suggested more vinegar and some hot sauce (hence the sriracha)


I've done a bit more work on the ceasar salad dressing, as you can see by the title.


Ceasar Salad Take 3

3 cloves garlic, minced or mashed
juice of 1 lemon (provided it's a juicy lemon)
1/2 cup olive oil, extra virgin (because everyone needs a few more virgins)
1 jumbo egg
1 tbsp chipotle (or otherwise extra hot) mustard
2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp black pepper
1/2 tsp light salt
1 cup shredded parmesan

Put it all in the blender and blend until mixed. MUST STAY REFRIGERATED because of the raw egg.

Amazingly, it's almost identical to take 2, which I had lost and had to recreate. Of course, as soon as I did that, the card with the recipe put in an appearance. Apparently, doing something over, or buying it again, is a necessary precondition for the black hole these things fall into coughing them back up so I can find them.