Sweet French Dressing

The other night we ventured over to Neighborhood Pizza for dinner. Ever since my cooking aversion started, making this trip has become more and more frequent. I guess you could say we’re regulars since we’ve making the jump between just ordering pizza and seeing what else they have to offer.

If you’re a northsider and you haven’t stopped in, you should. Its a small cafe on North Glenstone and Valley Water Mill. They serve pizza, pasta, sandwiches, salads, desserts and most importantly bosco sticks.

Bosco sticks are mozzarella filled breadsticks served with marinara sauce. Oh, and if you order anything with bacon, they serve the good thick cut kind. There’s a picture of the menu at the bottom.

But the other night I just wanted a garden salad and my greens were a bit on the stinky side. So we made the quick trip to Neighborhood Pizza. I tried a new salad dressing, sweet french. And OMG, its was amazing. Even Justin loved it.

I just love it when he has sympathy cravings. Two nights later he was begging for me to make this dressing. So a google search and a little creativity later, we had sweet french. And I’ve eaten it everyday since. And so has Joslyn. This dressing even made it possible for her to eat fresh spinach, cucumbers, mushrooms and carrots.

I know, is this my child? As she was shoving them into her mouth, she kept saying “leaves!”

If you still haven’t tried making a salad dressing from scratch, its time. I know some people are anti-scratch. You peeps don’t like making anything from scratch.

And I’m not hating here. But I’m here to tell you: its easy and people will think you’re a culinary genious. You can make the rest of the meal from a box and they’ll walk away raving about the whole dinner.

It is so easy, and chances are you already have everything to make this. (Even if you have a sparsely stocked pantry.)

So if you can look past the water spots on my little pitcher, I’d be happy to cough up the stolen and slightly modfied recipe.

Sweet French Dressing:

In a large jar with a tight fitting lid, combine:
1 cup vinegar
1 cup sguar
1 cup canola oil
1/2 cup ketchup
3 T. minced onion (fresh or dried)
1 tsp. celery seed
dash of salt

Omit the celery seed if you don’t have any, its not a crucial element. Now shake-shake-shake, shake-shake-shake, shake that jar. If you have a child handy this is a good time for them to help.

I hope you try it! I just love these little places- and if we keep them busy, they’ll stick around right?

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