Fast, Easy and Inexpensive: Greek Salad with Homemade Greek Dressing - Entertainment - Southington, CT Patch. Salads are refreshing and healthy meals to enjoy as the weather begins to warm up. While salads are generally good for you, the best way to ensure you're serving the best ingredients to your family is to make your own homemade salad dressing. If you've read the back of a bottle of pre-made dressing, you'll notice a lot of ingredients you can't pronounce. That's a good indication it contains unhealthy additives and preservatives. This homemade Greek Salad Dressing uses fresh, natural ingredients and takes minutes to prepare. For best results, refrigerate your dressing for a couple of hours to allow the flavors to fuse and the consistency to thicken. Hope you enjoy it! Greek Salad with Homemade Greek Salad DressingServes: 4-6 (makes about 1 2/3 cups of salad dressing)Prep Time: 10 minutes, plus 2 hour waiting period DirectionsBegin with combining all of your salad dressing ingredients in a bowl and whisk until the ingredients are combined.
Across Connecticut Trending Across Patch. Patch Column: Greek Salad with Homemade Greek Dressing. This week on my Patch Column, "Cooking with Chelsea", I've posted a Greek Salad with Homemade Greek Dressing. A quick and easy salad, full of nutrients alongside a healthy preservative-free Greek Salad Dressing. I love Greek salad. Feta and kalamata olives are my favorite. So it's only natural I always choose a greek salad over any other. I've wanted to make my own Greek Salad Dressing for a while and finally decided while I've made and eaten plenty of heavy foods in the last few weeks, a light and healthy salad is in order. This Greek Dressing is full of so many wonderful authentic Greek flavors that you find in other bottled greek dressings.
Genius. I used my left over dressing to make a Greek pasta salad with grilled hot dogs and hamburgers, substituting the salad for pasta and adding some chopped carrots and fresh spinach. Hope you enjoy this quick and easy salad with homemade dressing! Homemade Pitas with Grilled Chicken Patties & a Salad. I am encountering a block today, and have been sitting here for quite sometime not knowing how to start this post. The weather has been pretty bad, the children have been given a day off at school. With all the noise they are making inside, and the ice storm and frost outside my poor brain froze too. I did update the “About” page, now that my entire family has slowly got involved Other than that, I really could not have been able to think at all today.
So lets go straight to what we are here for. A peek in out kitchen today… this is what we cooked: Fresh Pitas with lovely pockets to stuff some hummus, veggies & chicken patties & a Big Salad with some Asparagus, Fruits & Nuts. My kids really loved the way the Pitas puffed in the oven. Here are some extra things you will need to stuff the pita… Use whatever you want to put in there. LettuceRipe but Firm Avacodo peeled & chopped into piecesRed Onions thinly SlicedRoasted Red Pepper Hummus Now going to the process of making the others… Pita:
Greek Potatoes with Lemon Vinaigrette. Zesty Chicken Oregano. My Guide to Greek Food – Nomadic Matt's Travel Site. I’ve never really eaten much Greek food. All I ever knew about it was that it has strange names, gyros are really good, and I like Greek salad. I’m currently in Greece visiting the Greek islands and on this trip I was determined to dig into the local food.
So far all my meals have involved traditional Greek food with every meal being a revolving door of new dishes. My thoughts? Greek food is delicious. There’s a lot of variety, a lot of good flavors, and lots of cheese and meat. Additionally, I always thought of Italians as masters of doing stuff with eggplant but the Greeks do just as good of a job. Moussaka This eggplant, cheese, and meat dish is by far my favorite Greek dish. Greek Salad I always thought a Greek salad was an American invention. Souvlaki This is the complete package- meat, rice, and salad. Fried Cheese There’s not much to say about this dish. Stuffed Vine leaves Usually grape leaves stuffed with rice and meat, these are a great appetizer. Kleftiko Gyro. Greek Orzo Stuffed Peppers Recipe.