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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Like a green salad? At holidays we have always had a salad of lettuce, red onion, citrus sections (grapefruit, orange or both), and pomegranate seeds with a homemade viniagrette.

An easy desert would be gingerbread, that you make ahead, with whipped cream. [/quote]

This salad sounds great. What is your recipe for the viniagrette?[/quote]

My vinaigrette is easy -- whisk together 1/3 c white wine vinegar, 1/3 c neutral oil like canola, a grated shallot, a big squeeze of dijon mustard, and salt, pepper. You can adjust the recipe according to taste. For example most people nowadays are accustomed to store bought dressing that has a lot of sugar, so they won't love dressing without sweetener. If this is you, add honey. Squeeze some in, taste it, and keep adding until you like it. You can also add lemon juice for a citrus kick -- lots of folks don't think a vinaigrette is proper without a bit of lemon juice. You can change up the vinegar and oils to taste as well, red wine vinegar and a good olive oil are awesome. If you love balsamic, use that. Just whatever you do don't forget the salt and pepper -- that's key (to just about anything you want to eat, really, but I digress).

But when I think of the salad I posted about above, with the grapefruit and pomegranate, I think of the salad dressing my grandparents put on it which is the dressing they put on everything. They had a cruet in the cabinet and it had a ratio of 1/3 regular old white vinegar to 2/3 vegetable oil with a pinch of pretty much each herb and spice on the spice rack thrown in there, lol. It was yummy and tasted the same through the years even if what was on the spice rack was not exactly the same. [/quote]

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