Sabatino 39;s Dressing

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Growing up, my mom cooked dinner almost every single night. Take out, pizza, or restaurant outings were rare treats; each night, my mom would make your typical well-rounded dinner consisting of protein, either rice or a baked potato, some type of vegetable, and always a salad.

When my mom makes her dressing, she never, ever makes it in a container, rather directly on the salad, sprinkling and drizzling everything right on, then mixing it together. She began teaching my sister and I how to make it when we were in our early teens, and after awhile, you just sort of get a feel for it. It took me quite a bit of time measuring and adjusting, then measuring and adjusting some more, to get the right ratios here. Use this as a starting point for adding or subtracting to make it your most loved salad dressing!

Michelle, would you please clarify two ingredients?
What type of vinegar is SALAD vinegar? Plain white vinegar?
Do you recommend Extra Virgin Olive Oil or some other type?
I am anxious to try this popular recipe!
Thank you.

I just made this dressing and it was horrible. I have the best ingredients and followed the recipe to a tee. It was too sweet and needed spices. The sugar completely ruined it. I made my own and it turned out great.

Hi, I found your recipe and tried it with a spaghettisquash salad (instead of pasta) for the first time on Super Bowl Sunday. I loved it! I took some to work for lunch and shared with my assistant and she wants me to make her some! I made the salad again last night and added more chopped vegetables, spaghettisquash, cucumber red & green peppers, red onion, broccoli, and cherry tomatoes. Loved it! Thanks for sharing!

Actually,I have used this vinegar many years ago, probably when I first started making my own dressings. Now that I use so many different vinegars, I guess I just forgot about this one. Thanks for the reminder.

Thanks for sharing the recipe. Have you heard of Wishbone Salad Dressings? The Italian dressing was created at the Wishbone Restaurant in Kansas City in 1945. That was a special place that my family went to for birthday dinners a couple of times. They served a cake with a sparkler on it! Lipton now owns the company but still makes the dressing in Kansas City. Just a little salad dressing history.

Thanks for this! I just made it for my lunch salad, it was delish! I used balsamic this time but may try a lighter vinegar like the salad vinegar you suggested next time to get a lighter flavor. Although I love balsamic sometimes it can be overpowering :)

Holy meatballs, these are delicious! Slathered in a spicy buffalo-style sauce and served with ranch dressing, they're sure to be a hit at your next gathering. What's more to love is they contain 0 grams of trans fat.

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Located in Baltimore's Little Italy, Sabatino's follows the Italian model of service, treating customers like family. This extends to its ambiance which is homey and relaxing. It also follows the Italian model for food, meaning plenty of flavor and generous portions. So, as you might imagine, when you order one of its salads, you will get a bountiful heap. When you order from the salad menu, head straight to the bookmaker salad. A flavorful treat by any standard, this large helping of garden salad is accented with shrimp and Genoa salami, and comes with a plentiful amount of provolone cheese with a hard-boiled egg topping it off. Best of all, it is flavored by Sabatino's incredible house dressing. At $0.50 extra on the regular garden salad, this dressing is still worth the cost, but it comes as part of the price of the bookmaker salad, and you will be very glad it does.

Peter's Inn is a unique idea if ever there was one. Rather than creating a core menu of old favorites that people can enjoy and return to, this spot changes its menu weekly. This means that the food choices will always be a surprise when you enter Peter's. But you won't complain when you taste what it has to offer. The atmosphere Peter's creates fits its whimsical attitude on menu choices, coming off as both quirky and hip. But just because the menu is always in flux, doesn't mean you can't enjoy the staples. And the best of those staples is the "salad and bread" starter. The imagination poured into every menu item is clearly reflected in the craftsmanship with the salad of the week. Recently, Peter's Inn's salad was roasted beets with fried Danish bleu cheese and pistachio pesto. If this kind of culinary genius doesn't impress you, then nothing will.

By Degrees Cafe has a philosophy when it comes to its salads: salads should be meals. And this is not just any kind of meal but a meaty meal that you can sink your teeth into. All of its salads are full, rich meals in and of themselves. Try the shaved Brussels sprout salad, made with golden raisins, toasted almonds, granny smith apples and buttermilk dressing. Or enjoy the fried goat cheese salad, full of tea-soaked dates, bacon, radishes and topped with a bacon-sherry vinaigrette. With all of these flavorful ingredients, every bite you take is a different flavor combination.

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Joel Furches is a freelance writer and researcher for The Examiner and Logos Software, and also manages his own catalog of writing on Hub Pages. Joel is on the board of directors for Ratio Christi. He has a bachelors in Psychology and a Masters in Education.

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