Most people live pretty busy lives nowadays. Most weeks, I run here and there like a chicken with its head cut off myself! Nonetheless, most people aren’t nearly as busy as they think. A lot of the time, people use busyness as an excuse for laziness. If they would just take a little but more time for the things that mattered, it would greatly enhance their quality of life. After all, why work so hard if you are not going to enjoy the simple pleasures when you have time off?
If you want proof of this, you need new look no further than the sale of commercial salad dressing. I don’t know about you, but almost all of the salad dressings that I have tried out are terrible. It isn’t that they don’t try to make good salad dressing ? they probably do everything they can. It is just that you simply can’t prepackage dressing that is anything near as good as what you can cook up yourself in a few minutes. You can use oil and vinegar, mustard, wasabi, walnuts ? Almost any ingredients that you can imagine. The possibilities of salad dressings are limitless. All you need is a little bit of imagination and five minutes of work.
When you are making a dressing for spinach salad in particular, you need to have the right balance of flavors in order to balance out the strong, leafy taste. I like to use fresh herbs and garlic. A salad dressing doesn’t have to have that much garlic ? one clove will usually do it for two to three servings. You have to chop it finely, of course, but you should always chop it right before you serve it. That way, the taste is fresh and pungent. If you’re worried about how your breath will smell, why not add a little bit of mint? It will give more complexity to the dressing, and will ensure that you finish having fresh, clean breath.
Of course, you can get exotic as well. If you have never tried mango vinaigrette salad dressing, you don’t know what you’re missing! Mango is becoming very vogue the world over. It has a delicious, complex flavor, keeps well, and is healthy for you on top of all that. Besides that, it is a wonderfully sweet. If your fear of salad is holding your diet back, you must try this immediately! It will cure you of your vegetable phobia.
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