Do you or have you made your own salad dressing?

I make my own ceaser dressing and it turns out way better than any I have found in the stores. I load it with lots of garlic and parmesan cheese and I always get so many compliments on it.

I'm not that creative because all I know how to make is coleslaw dressing using Miracle Whip, sugar and milk. I would be up for trying Thousand Island. Thank You.

I only used Good Seasons dressing mixes when the kids were home. Now I buy ranch dressing that is already made. I have always wanted to make cole slaw and have attempted to do so without success. Will you share your recipe for the dressing for this?

I make mine for my coleslaw, but that is about it anymore. I have made vinaigrette's before that turned out pretty good, but it has been a while since I have done that. I have done the Hidden Valley seasoning packet to do Ranch dressing before too, but again it has been awhile.

Yes I have tried it many times and I agree to what my friend here has told that homemade salad dressings taste way better than what you pick from supermarkets. And with no or less preservatives, homemade salad dressings are a lot healthier too.

One of my favorite salad dressing is Creamy Mint Dressing and, the best part of it is that this dressing can go with almost all the salads.

Check out the recipe here -

http://www.ifood.tv/recipe/creamy_mint_dressing

Also, here is a vast collection of salad dressings you can try -

http://www.ifood.tv/network/salad_dressing/recipes

I make the ranch from the package. I don't like the bottled. To me it's too spicy. That might be my imagination though. LOL I also make my own thousand island and cole slaw dressing like you do. Except for my cole slaw, I don't like real sweet dressings and the bottled ones tend to be a bit on the sugary side.

I don't make salad dressing from scratch; but I do make salad dressing of my own mixing lots of things together:). I like ready made mayo and ranch to use with other things like olive oil, cilantro, lemon juice, and lots of other things at different time. I mix things together depending on the salad.

Hi jillhill, I always make my own salad dressings as that way I can get them exactly as I like them and as I seem to have eaten hardly anything but salads in the last few months due to it being too hot to go near the cooker to cook then I need plenty of variety.

If I want a creamy type I do start off with bought mustard mayonnaise but always add oil to it to thin it out. My other dressings all use extra virgin olive oil as a base though with other things added, balsamic ia a favourite. The absoltely simplest one I do is nothing but salt, basil leaves and olive oil left to marinate over tomatoes, delcious.

Hi there jillhill

I learnt a lovely salad dressing whilst I was in Switzerland and is great with cold green beans and spring onions/salad onions. It is basically 2 tbls sunflower oil, 1 tbls white wine vinegar, tbls mayonnaise, 1/4 tbls mustard. That is just roughly it but I would adjust it to my taste. It will separate if left for a while so all you have to is give it a good stir before using. It is also great with endives and red peppers!!

My mother use to make the best thousand island dressing using mayo and eggs. I make it a couple of times and it was just ok. I just don't "get it" in the kitchen..lol This was several years ago and nobody liked it but me. That tells me something. Think my husband ate it because he felt obligated but he was making awful faces. My favorite dressing is ranch although I would prefer to buy it at the store.