what your favorite salad dressing? [Archive] - Front Office Football Central

Icy

10-23-2005, 03:56 PM

Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Balsamic Vinager.That is the standard salad dress in Spain, as we are with Italy and Greece one of the best Olive Oil produccers and consumers, the named Mediterranean diet.

Nothing beats an extra virgin...olive oil :)

I like also the blue cheese dress for the Caesar salad.

vex

10-23-2005, 03:56 PM

Olive Garden's.

cuervo72

10-23-2005, 04:26 PM

For a long time I was doing the oil and vinegar deal because it was healthy. Before that, I would have said thousand island. Nowadays if I don't get o&v, it will be bleu cheese.

clintl

10-23-2005, 04:31 PM

Newman's Own Olive Oil and Vinegar

JonInMiddleGA

10-23-2005, 05:18 PM

I usually go with either honey mustard or thousand island, depending upon which sounds better to me at the moment. Those or O&V are pretty much the only ones I can stand the taste of.

Best I've ever had, but not likely to find in a bottle, are a couple of restaurants that had a hot bacon kinda thing.

Karlifornia

10-23-2005, 05:27 PM

Anything but thousand island

Qwikshot

10-23-2005, 05:35 PM

Catalina

terpkristin

10-23-2005, 05:38 PM

Balsamic vinegar and EVOO with some garlic minced in.

Also, my mom makes some really good dressing which we traditionally put on our spinach salad. The salad itself is spinach, red onion, and mandarin oranges (plus whatever, sometimes chicken). The dressing is something along the lines of orange olive oil (olive oil prepared with orange zest, I think, would need to go look at my 'mom's recipes cookbook' to be certain) and some sort of vinegar. It ends up being slightly sweet and kind of orange-y, which compliments the mandarin oranges and spinach quite nicely.

/tk

Logan

10-23-2005, 05:46 PM

One of the dining halls at RU had a fat-free Tomato Basil dressing that was fuckin amazing.

Lorena

10-23-2005, 05:58 PM

Carb Well's Ranch Dressing from Kraft

QuikSand

10-23-2005, 06:33 PM

A seriously chunky blue cheese dressing is best in my book. I don't have a particular bottled brand in mind, but there are a few that are pretty solid.

Schmidty

10-23-2005, 06:36 PM

A seriously chunky blue cheese dressing is best in my book. I don't have a particular bottled brand in mind, but there are a few that are pretty solid.

I know I sound like a shill, but Brianna's Blue Cheese is amazing. It's my second favorite to their New American Dressing.

Joe

10-23-2005, 06:43 PM

caesar

Draft Dodger

10-23-2005, 06:56 PM

A seriously chunky blue cheese dressing is best in my book. I don't have a particular bottled brand in mind, but there are a few that are pretty solid.

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Marie's is usally my favorite, but I'm not picky.

I'm a little odd with salad dressings - lately I've been using 2 or 3 on my salad. start with a nice blue cheese, then go with a catalina, and recently a nice vidalia ranch that I found to top things off.

INDalltheway

10-23-2005, 06:59 PM

Mullins French dressing. I basically like every kind, but that is my favorite.

colt45

10-23-2005, 07:16 PM

I always feel a bit less manly when I do it in front of people, but I enjoy just lemon squirts (okay, also known as juice) and pepper.

terpkristin

10-23-2005, 07:20 PM

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Marie's is usally my favorite, but I'm not picky.

I'm a little odd with salad dressings - lately I've been using 2 or 3 on my salad. start with a nice blue cheese, then go with a catalina, and recently a nice vidalia ranch that I found to top things off.
Marie's Creamy Italian is what I've been using as a "dip" for as long as I can remember. I love that stuff!

/tk

miami_fan

10-23-2005, 07:29 PM

Catalina

bosshogg23

10-23-2005, 07:43 PM

Honey Mustard is my favorite. Restaurant I go to has a great Honey Lime as well.

Easy Mac

10-23-2005, 07:45 PM

Requisite:

Salad are for gays.

Though to be frank, I've never finished a salad, they taste like crap. It's like eating a wet piece of paper.

Raiders Army

10-23-2005, 07:49 PM

Oil and Vinegar.

Karlifornia

10-23-2005, 07:55 PM

Requisite:

Salad are for gays.

Though to be frank, I've never finished a salad, they taste like crap. It's like eating a wet piece of paper.

Whoops...somebody's parents didn't do their job.

Craptacular

10-23-2005, 08:17 PM

barbecue sauce

No, I'm not kidding.

MizzouRah

10-23-2005, 08:20 PM

Parmesan Peppercorn, yummy!!

Although lately, creamy cucumber has been in the fridge.

B & B

10-23-2005, 08:22 PM

Requisite:

Salad are for gays.

Though to be frank, I've never finished a salad, they taste like crap. It's like eating a wet piece of paper.

Personally, no way in hell this thread goes 20 deep without this type of sentiment.

Boiling water, adding milk and powdered cheese. Come on, thats pretty basic.
If ya gotta nuke mac-n-cheese, the forum isnt expecting salad expertise.

Back to the subject, Id go contrarian and recommend the worst salad dressing for you health-wise. Hot bacon / honey mustard. *thats one dressing

lighthousekeeper

10-23-2005, 08:25 PM

A seriously chunky blue cheese dressing is best in my book. I don't have a particular bottled brand in mind, but there are a few that are pretty solid.
same here.

colt45

10-23-2005, 08:40 PM

And there's always butter. Can't ever really go wrong with butter.

JonInMiddleGA

10-23-2005, 08:42 PM

Hot bacon / honey mustard. *thats one dressing

A wise man :)

st.cronin

10-23-2005, 08:42 PM

I prepare salads with fresh ingredients and go without dressing.

Schmidty

10-23-2005, 09:04 PM

I prepare salads with fresh ingredients and go without dressing.

So basically you're a rabbit?

Tara

10-24-2005, 02:53 AM

I prepare salads with fresh ingredients and go without dressing.

that's the same for me. Sometimes i add just some olive oil.
...btw hi everybody again...lately i'm writing a post each two months...too much work here to follow any thread :(

daedalus

10-24-2005, 05:47 AM

barbecue sauce

No, I'm not kidding.We have a Barbeque Chicken Salad (salad, grilled chicken breast, barbeque sauce) at Gameworks that's oddly popular with guests. I never quite understood it. I think a lot of it has to do with the barbeque sauce, which is quite popular.

Danny

10-24-2005, 06:16 AM

A seriously chunky blue cheese dressing is best in my book. I don't have a particular bottled brand in mind, but there are a few that are pretty solid.

Same for me.

Bee

10-24-2005, 07:04 AM

A seriously chunky blue cheese dressing is best in my book. I don't have a particular bottled brand in mind, but there are a few that are pretty solid.

I love really chunky blue cheese dressing, but most bottled versions aren't chunky enough for me. I usually end up adding chunks of blue cheese to bottled dressing. Do you have any that you've found super chunky?

TRO

10-24-2005, 07:43 AM

Catalina or Russian.

Also, the lettuce of the salad CAN'T be iceburg. Way too watery. Prefer mixed greens or baby spinach.

Qwikshot

10-24-2005, 07:50 AM

Requisite:

Salad are for gays.

Though to be frank, I've never finished a salad, they taste like crap. It's like eating a wet piece of paper.

I thought Tossing Salad was for...nevermind.

Wolfpack

10-24-2005, 10:14 AM

Western dressing if I can ever find it. Failing that, in a restaurant, it's French or Italian (I've been known to mix both at times). Another good alternative is Tangy Tomato 'n Bacon. (Yes, I'm quite partial to red dressings....)

cuervo72

10-24-2005, 11:14 AM

barbecue sauce

No, I'm not kidding.

This and tk's mention of oranges also remind me of some salads I'll get while I'm out; the pulled pork salad at Famous Dave's (they use some sort of bbq-ey dressing), and the Santa Fe and Oriental Chicken salads at Applebees (I will often get the former, my wife the latter, which is also pretty good).

Coffee Warlord

10-24-2005, 11:15 AM

Balsamic or Caesar.

ISiddiqui

10-24-2005, 12:35 PM

Ranch dressing.

cuervo72

10-24-2005, 12:46 PM

Raaaaaaanch.....

RANCH!

dixieflatline

10-24-2005, 01:01 PM

I had a red wine vinaigrette this weekend that was fantanstic.

Terps

10-24-2005, 01:43 PM

Ranch, usually fat free or light.

pennywisesb

10-24-2005, 02:08 PM

My favorite is olive oil and vinegar as well, but if I'm not in the mood for it I like honey mustard.

Craptacular

10-24-2005, 03:50 PM

We have a Barbeque Chicken Salad (salad, grilled chicken breast, barbeque sauce) at Gameworks that's oddly popular with guests. I never quite understood it. I think a lot of it has to do with the barbeque sauce, which is quite popular.
Usually at least once a week, I go to the local supermarket for lunch, and make my own salad ... lettuce, carrots, cucumbers, green peppers, croutons, and a whole lot of grilled chicken. Then I go back to my office and pour on the BBQ sauce I keep in the fridge. :)

Lathum

10-24-2005, 03:55 PM

The whole olive garden salad is the best to me, I've tried the dressing on other salads but it isn't the same. I would have to go with Blue Cheese.

Lathum

10-24-2005, 04:00 PM

That's great. Very relevant.
oops

Raiders Army

10-24-2005, 04:49 PM

? Phantom quote there.

st.cronin

10-24-2005, 04:50 PM

How does *this* thread stay on topic? Come on people.

JeeberD

10-24-2005, 05:05 PM

Italian or Creamy Italian or Ranch or Caesar. Depends upon what kind of mood I'm in...

Glengoyne

10-24-2005, 05:38 PM

In a bottle I really like Wish Bone Italian. Even the little packets where you make your own.

My favorite all over is chunks or shavings of dry blue or gorgonzola along with a vinaigrette. The classic wet/dry blue.

MrBug708

07-25-2006, 02:15 AM

Bleu Cheese, but Sizzler's ranch dressing is kick ass

Lorena

07-25-2006, 03:48 AM

Well, they don't sell Carb Well's Ranch, so I'm gonna have to find some low sugar one... bummer :(

cuervo72

07-25-2006, 09:03 AM

Been using bleu cheese a *lot* since going to the low-carb diet. Good thing I like it.

DanGarion

07-25-2006, 09:28 AM

Ken's Steakhouse Thousand Island.

King of New York

07-25-2006, 10:54 AM

Catalina or Bleu Cheese

(I am surprised to see so many votes for Catalina--I thought I was the only one who liked it.)