Homemade Greek Dressing

Does your family like salads?  We really enjoy eating salads.  Every so often, we buy lots of salad ingredients and eat salads for dinner for four or five (or more) nights.  Not only is it a welcomed break from preparing dinner, but it's a fast, healthy, and REAL food meal!  You can get so creative with salads and you can vary your salad each night.  Some of my favorite foods I like to include on my salad are:  green peas, spinach, mushrooms, boiled egg, red bell peppers (or any color for that matter), seeds (sunflower, pumpkin, etc.), walnuts or sliced almonds, red onion, broccoli  feta, tomatoes, avocado and sometimes chicken.

And then there's your dressing.  That's what can turn someone's healthy, REAL food salad into a meal that's not so good for you.  Have you read the ingredient list on your favorite salad dressing lately?  I really like a Greek dressing.  So, let's compare a store bought Greek dressing to a delicious homemade Greek dressing.  If you check the ingredient label for Ken's Steak House Greek dressing it had 25 ingredients!!!  Eight of the 25 ingredients were unrecognizable words (red flag!).  The Greek dressing that we enjoy putting on our salads is super easy to make, super yummy, and has six ingredients.....


My Grandma's Greek Dressing Recipe
(Simply Scratch)
Ingredients:
-extra virgin olive oil
-fresh lemon juice
-garlic clove
-dried oregano
-kosher salt
-black pepper


Here's another very basic salad dressing that you can add different spices to, therefore, tailoring it more to your liking:

Simple Everyday Salad Dressing
(Deliciously Organic)
Ingredients:
-extra virgin olive oil
-lemon juice
-fresh garlic
-sea salt

So, how about making your kitchen counter into a salad bar for dinner tonight?  Your body will thank you!

~Davis