Home Made Salad Dressing – Serves 6 to 8
Ingredients:
1 cup of mayonnaise or sour cream or ½ cup of each
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil, grape seed oil, avocado oil or similar
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar or your choice of vinegars white wine, red wine or rice vinegar seasoned with sugar
1/8 cup water
Sea Salt or Kosher Salt to taste
Course Ground Black Pepper to taste
Any complimentary spices you wish (shallots, basil, garlic, parsley or summer savory for example)

This basic salad dressing recipe can be varied by using crème cheese or the crème cheese cooking crèmes and by different vinegars, spices, addition of blue cheese, parmesan cheese, gorgonzola or any complimentary cheese crumbled fine. You can also spice it up a bit with ½ to 1 teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce.

Instructions:
In a small jar or similar, add the mayonnaise or sour cream or a mixture of the two.
Add the salt, pepper any spices you wish. Then with a fork or whisk mix the spices into the mayonnaise. Add the oil, vinegar and water.

Put a lid on the container and shake well to emulsify the mixture. When done, the dressing should be slightly thin and not real thick. You will need to shake well each time before serving. This dressing should keep in the refrigerator for 1 to 2 weeks.

I use leftover olive jars for my mixing jars. Good use for recycling and they last for years before the lids start to corrode and they have to be discarded.