(Date: 26-Feb-2013. The 30th recipe in 2013)
I'm never a salad girl. Grown up in Asia, I am too used to stir-fry vegetables or leafy veggie soup. However I am eager to do a meatless day once or twice a week - to eat further down the food chain and live lighter on the earth once in a while. I think salad is a good point to start with (and less dishes to wash too).
Vinaigrette, also known as French Dressing, is probably the easiest salad dressing. Despite of its fancy name, it is just an emulsion made with 1 part of vinegar with 3 parts of oil. Most regular home cook should have heaps of both already sitting in the pantry, so there is definitely no need to pay an extra two pounds to buy a bottle. It feels more natural to DIY at home too. I can hardly believe oil and vinegar (think about oil & water) can form stable emulsion without separating apart for the whole shelf life without a bit of help of chemical or additives.