Alright, I am going to be a little focused here on ranch dressing. It’s my favorite, but You can try your favorite type of dressing for these food and snack ideas I am sure it will be just as good. I was bored one day, and an idea popped into my head and it was a great one. Here are the ones that I tried and other innovative ideas for the use of dressing.
Toast
Make some toast and butter it, and spread a little ranch dressing over that
Sandwiches
You can get a little wild with this one. Instead of mayonnaise, use one type of salad dressing on one half of the sub roll, and another type of dressing with the other half of the roll.
Deviled Eggs
Again, instead of Mayonnaise, use ranch dressing.
Crackers
Use it like a dip
Potato Chips
For a dip
Biscuits
Spread it on the biscuits, or when you make your own, put some in the dough before baking.
Greens
Pour some on dark vegetables, like collard greens.
Scrambled eggs
Put a dollop or two in your egg mixture
A Gravy Substitute
A Barbecue Sauce Substitute
A Dangerous Mix
Combining Salad dressing with relish and mayonnaise
Salad Dressing As A substitute
If you’re ever out of mayonnaise, butter, you can use ranch dressing instead
Mix It Up In Vegetables
If your kids can’t stand a certain vegetable, you can mix a little dressing in that to help it go down
The History Of Salad Dressing
Salad dressings are basically for, of course, salads the idea is based on mayonnaise and vinaigrette. Dressing have been around for many years. In China, they used Soy Sauce for the past 5000 years. In Babylon Oil and Vinegar was put on their salads for the past 2000 years, Egyptians mixed oil, vinegar and oriental spices for their salads. Salads were special dishes back in the palaces of royals in Europe. The royal salad chefs put as much as 35 different ingredients in a huge bowl. Some of the ingredients were violets, marigolds, and rose petals. Mayonnaise was introduced to a French nobleman just over 200 years ago. Mary, the Queen of Scots loved a creamy mustard dressing over her diced celery root, lettuce, truffles, chervil and hard boiled egg.
Only in America did the salad dressing progress to oil, vinegar, or lemon juice and spices. Salad dressing were available in markets since the 1920’s.
Other Types of Dressings
There are many other types of dressings that would taste absolutely delicious on other foods, depending on your taste buds.
Russian Dressing-Mayonnaise combined chives, pimentos, ketchup and spices
Green Goddess Dressing-Mayonnaise combined with anchovies, parsley, scallions, garlic, spices, tarragon vinegar
Another salad dressing that I’ve used was Thousand Island. Ranch and Thousand Island are thick dressing, so if your favorite is of the thin type, It may or may not be as excellent as using Ranch dressing and the Thousand Island dressing. It is not a good thing to always eat the same things over and over. When you are bored, that is a sneaky way for unwanted fat to creep in on you. Whatever you eat, make sure that it’s different to keep life interesting. When I thought of using salad dressing to spice up plain and simple food, it made eating interesting. Another thing to do to keep food interesting is to watch The Food Network. There may be recipes you don’t like, but you can change them to suit your own tastes. Always experiment with different foods, and come up with your own ideas to keep eating fun and interesting.
