Olive Garden Salad

Salad Dressing:
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/3 cup white vinegar
1 teaspoon vegetable oil
2 tablespoon corn syrup
2 tablespoon Parmesan cheese
2 tablespoon Romano cheese
1/4 teaspoon garlic salt, or one clove garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
1/2 teaspoon parsley flakes
1 tablespoon lemon juice
sugar (optional)

Place all ingredients in a blender until well mixed. If this is a little too tart for your own personal taste, add a little extra sugar. You can enjoy your Olive Garden salad dressing for about 10 days if stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator. Another great use for the Olive Garden salad dressing is as a marinade for vegetables or even meats that you might like to grill. So you can see the Olive Garden salad dressing can be used in more than one way.

Salad:
1 bag Dole American Blend Salad
4-5 slices red onion
4-6 black olives
2-4 pepperoncini (if you like a sweet pepper, you could use a banana pepper)
1/2 cup croutons
1 small tomato, quartered
freshly grated Romano cheese (Parmesan Cheese works well too!)

Chill one salad bowl in freezer for at least 30 minutes. Place bag of salad in bowl. Place on top of the lettuce the red onion, black olives, pepperoncinis, tomatoes, and croutons. Add some freshly grated Parmesan cheese if you like, and add plenty of Olive Garden Salad Dressing on top.

Potato Salad

Yield: 8 to 10 servings.
1 1/2 lb. boiled potatoes
1/2 cup white onion, chopped fine
2 boiled eggs, diced
1 large dill or sour pickle
1 cup green peas (frozen or canned)
1 cup meat (can be ham, turkey, corned beef, any type of left over beef, corned beef is my favorite)
2 carrots (optional)
3/4 cup mayonnaise
Peel and boil potatoes cooking until tender. If you desire to have carrot in your salad add a couple of peeled carrots halfway through the potato cooking process. In a separate pot, boil eggs until they are cooked through. Allow the potatoes, eggs, and carrots, if used to cool before dicing into bite sized pieces and placing in a bowl. Add finely chopped onions, and a chopped dill pickle. Add green peas and mayonnaise. Stir all together until well blended. You may wish to season with salt and pepper before serving.
This is a very flexible recipe, this is how I enjoy it the best. Some people may find this type of potato salad a little bland, here the sour pickles, and the meat really add the flavor impact. Keep in mind that during the Soviet era, salads like this were made with what was on hand and available. Feeling adventurous, other pickled vegetables would go well in here. Don’t forget to garnish with a little dill weed.

Grilled Chicken Oriental Salad

Yield: 2 entree sized salads
6-8 cups romaine lettuce
2 chicken breasts
1/2 cup crispy rice noodles
1/2 cup sliced almonds
2 tablespoons shredded carrots
2 tablespoons olive oil
salt and pepper


Grill chicken breasts, by first placing into plastic wrap, and gently pounding them to about 3/8 of an inch thick. If you have a grill you can use a grill to cook your chicken breasts. You can also cook the chicken breasts in a skillet, add olive oil to a skillet and heat on medium heat. Season chicken breasts with salt and pepper, and cook for approximately 5 to 7 minutes on each side. Place fully cooked chicken breasts onto a plate, and allow to rest for 4 to 5 minutes before slicing.

Toast almonds by placing in a small skillet over medium heat, watch almonds carefully, there is a fine line between toasted almonds and burnt almonds. Shake pan gently and when you begin to smell the almonds they are toasting, allow them to toast for a few seconds more and immediately place almonds onto a paper towel and allow them to cool for a moment or two.

Assemble salads by first putting down the lettuce, I use about 3 to 4 cups of lettuce, add the shredded carrot, 1/4 cup crispy rice noodles, 1/4 cup toasted almonds, and then place on sliced chicken. Serve with Oriental Salad Dressing.



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July 11, 2010
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I have to admit that the Applebee’s Oriental Salad Dressing had me stumped, and stumped for a long time. I love the sweet almost smoky flavor of the Applebee’s Oriental Salad Dressing, I haven’t been able to go into that restaurant and not order extra salad dressing each time I went. So began the experimenting on the Applebee’s Oriental Salad Dressing. This salad dressing is a variation on vinaigrette; vinaigrettes are made with vinegar, oil, seasonings, and Dijon mustard. Since this dressing was creamy, adding mayonnaise gives this dressing creaminess. Now for the oil, we are using regular sesame oil, and a toasted sesame oil. Using all sesame toasted oil over powers the salad dressing, so you just want to use a touch of the dressing for an enhanced flavor.

Applebee’s Oriental Salad Dressing

Yield: approximately 3/4 cup.
1/4 cup Mayonnaise
4 tablespoons Rice Wine Vinegar
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons sesame seed oil
1 teaspoon toasted sesame seed oil
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard

In a medium sized bowl combine sugar, and rice wine vinegar, and mix until sugar is completely dissolved. Add remaining ingredients and stir until well blended. Refrigerate salad dressing in a covered container for up to one week.

A couple of notes about the ingredients, the rice wine vinegar is carried in most grocery stores, be careful not to purchase the seasoned rice wine vinegar, as it is sweetened, and a salad dressing made with that makes the dressing way too sweet. The sesame oil can be found in the regular section of the oils in a grocery store. Now the toasted sesame oil look in the Oriental section of your grocery store.

Southwestern Salad

½ cup onions, chopped
1 lb. lean ground beef
1 Tbsp. chili powder
2 tsp. dry oregano
½ tsp. ground cumin
1 cup canned kidney beans, red, drained
1 15 oz. can chickpeas, drained
1 medium tomato, diced
2 cups lettuce
½ cup cheddar cheese

Directions:
Cook ground beef and onions in a large skillet until the beef no longer remains pink. Drain.

Stir chili powder, oregano, and cumin into beef mixture; cook for 1 minute.

Add beans, chickpeas, and tomatoes. Mix gently to combine.

Combine lettuce and cheese in large serving bowl. Portion lettuce and cheese onto 4 plates. Add 1 cup of beef mixture on top of lettuce and cheese

Fiesta Taco Salad

4 oz. cheddar cheese
1 medium onion
1 (1 1/4 oz) package taco sauce mix
3/4 cup water
1 7 oz pkg tortilla chips
1 head of lettuce
3 medium tomatoes

Directions:
1. Cut/grate cheese and onion
2. Brown meat and drain
3. Add onion, taco mix, water and reduce heat to low. Simmer 5 minutes and refrigerate until cool
4. While meat is cooling, tear lettuce into bite sie pieces. Place in a large salad bowl. Add meat, tomato and cheese. Slightly crush ships and toss salad. Serve with favorite dressing.

Chicken Pasta Salad

2 tbsp. parmesan cheese
1/2 cup penne pasta
1/2 cup mixed vegetables
1 chicken breast, baked and cut
1/8 cup Oceanspray Craisens
1 tbsp. raw pine nuts
1 cup fresh raw spinach
2 tbsp salad dressing, low fat

Directions:
Dice and cook chicken breast. Cook pasta. Steam vegetables. Combine chicken breast chunks, pasta, vegetables, cheese, all other ingredients and salad dressing. Toss salad and chill. Serve cold.

Cobb Salad

1/2 head iceberg lettuce
1/2 bunch watercress
1 small bunch curly endive
1/2 head romaine
2 Tbsp. minced chives
1 chicken breast cooked, boned, skinned, and diced
6 strips bacon, cooked and diced
1 avocado, peeled and diced
3 hard cooked eggs, peeled and diced
1/2 C. Roquefort cheese, crumbled

Chop lettuce, watercress, endive, and Romaine in very fine pieces. Mix together in large wide bowl. Arrange chives, tomatoes, chicken, bacon, avocado, eggs, and cheese in rows over lettuce.

Cranberry Salad

2 C. fresh cranberries
1 quartered orange
1/2 C. chopped celery
6 oz. lemon flavored gelatin
1 3/4 C. sugar
3 C. hot water

Put cranberries and orange through food chopper and add celery and sugar. Mix hot water and gelatin and refrigerate until syrupy. Add cranberry mixture to gelatin and refrigerate until set.

Oriental Chicken Salad

6-8 cups romaine lettuce
2 chicken breasts
1/2 cup crispy rice noodles
1/2 cup sliced almonds
2 tablespoons shredded carrots
2 tablespoons olive oil
salt and pepper
Oriental Salad Dressing

Grill chicken breasts, by first placing into plastic wrap, and gently pounding them to about 3/8 of an inch thick. If you have a grill you can use a grill to cook your chicken breasts. You can also cook the chicken breasts in a skillet, add olive oil to a skillet and heat on medium heat. Season chicken breasts with salt and pepper, and cook for approximately 5 to 7 minutes on each side. Place fully cooked chicken breasts onto a plate, and allow to rest for 4 to 5 minutes before slicing.

Toast almonds by placing in a small skillet over medium heat, watch almonds carefully, there is a fine line between toasted almonds and burnt almonds. Shake pan gently and when you begin to smell the almonds they are toasting, allow them to toast for a few seconds more and immediately place almonds onto a papertowel and allow them to cool for a moment or two.

Assemble salads by first putting down the lettuce, I use about 3 to 4 cups of lettuce, add the shredded carrot, 1/4 cup crispy rice noodles, 1/4 cup toasted almonds, and then place on sliced chicken. Serve with plenty of the Oriental Salad Dressing

Ranch and Bacon Pasta Salad

2 C. dry shell pasta
1 (8 oz.) can very young peas, drained (important because they are small and crisp)
2/3 C. Mayonnaise – do not use Miracle Whip
1 packet of Hidden Valley Ranch ranch dressing mix
3-4 peeled baby carrots, shredded
bacon bits (real or fake, fresh cooked or in a can)
1/2 tsp onion powder

Bring water to a rolling boil in a saucepan. Add shell pasta and carrot shreds, allow them to boil, uncovered, for 10 minutes. Drain into a strainer and rinse under cold water.

n a medium sized bowl, mix together the peas, the entire packet of ranch dressing mix, bacon bits, onion powder, and mayonnaise. Add pasta and carrots. Stir together until everything is coated with mayo-seasoning mixture. Chill and serve.

Garden Pasta Salad

1 (16 ounce) package uncooked tri-color spiral pasta
1/2 cup thinly sliced carrots
2 stalks celery, chopped
1/2 cup chopped green bell pepper
1/2 cup cucumber, peeled and thinly sliced
2 large tomatoes, diced
1/4 cup chopped onion
2 (16 ounce) bottles Italian-style salad dressing
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese

Directions:
1. Cook pasta in large pot of boiling water until al dente. Rinse under cold water, and drain.
2. Mix chopped carrots, celery, cucumber, green pepper, tomatoes, and onion together in large bowl.
3. Combine cooled pasta and vegetables together in large bowl. Pour Italian dressing over mixture, add Parmesan cheese and mix well.
4. Chill for one hour before serving.

Potato Salad

2 lbs of Yukon Gold potatoes, peel on, cut into 1-inch pieces
3/4 cup sour cream
1/4 cup mayonnaise
2 teaspoons of mustard (your favorite, yellow, Dijon, stone ground)
1/2 cup thinly sliced green onions
1/2 cup chopped celery
1/4 cup chopped parsley
2 dill pickles, chopped into 1/4 in cubes (about 3/4 cup)
6 slices of bacon, cooked and finely chopped
Coarse salt
Freshly ground pepper

Directions:
1 In a large pot, cover potatoes with cold, salted water (1 teaspoon salt). Bring to a boil, reduce heat to a simmer. Simmer until the potatoes are tender when pierced with a fork, about 20 minutes. Drain, and rinse with cold water to stop the cooking.

2 In a large bowl, whisk together the sour cream, mayonnaise, and mustard. Add a little salt and pepper. Add the potatoes and use a rubber spatula to gently combine. Add the rest of the ingredients, again gently combining. (Include a couple tablespoons of the pickle juice for good measure.) Season to taste with salt and pepper.