Salad Dressing 101

Suppose you run out of your favorite salad dressing but you wanna make a salad. Nothing is as easy as making salad dressing. Seriously.

All you need is:
-an acid (vinegar is classic, but a citrus fruit works perfectly as well)
-some oil (olive oil is the best)
-various spices (but at least some salt and pepper)

Step 1:
Pour a little bit of vinegar (like, 4 tbsps) directly into the bottom of your salad bowl OR squeeze a citrus fruit till you get some juice in there.

Step 2:
Add salt and pepper. At the very least, you probably have salt and pepper in your cabinet. You can add anything else--garlic powder, red pepper flakes, grill seasoning, italian seasoning, or even as fancy as mustard seed--whatever. Dash, pinch, shake, whatever.


Step 3:
Stream in your oil with one hand while you beat with the other. The streaming helps the dressing to get all nice and homogenous.


Then throw your salad straight into the bowl, toss, and serve! That's it!


Review:
1. Add your base acid.
2. Season it however you want (S&P is fine)
3. Stream and beat in the oil.

Simple. You don't need any fancy food processors or even a mixing bowl for this one. Unless your salad bowl is your mixing bowl (as is mine...).