This simple honey and mustard viniagrette recipe should make enough for 4 servings and will last for several days in an airtight container in the fridge. I find it is excellent with a chicken salad, and it also works well with tuna.
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This easy herb vinaigrette recipe will compliment any number of summer salads and once made will last in the fridge for around 3 days in an airtight container. Always use fresh herbs for this vinaigrette, dried herbs are just not the same.
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Tomato, celery and red onion salad is an easy salad recipe, using few ingredients, but when combined with a killer vinaigrette it becomes a rather special tasty salad. The vinaigrette can be made in advance, I always try to have some ready to use. Once made it can be kept in an airtight bottle and stored in a cool dark place.
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I thought to balance things out, after sharing a recipe for salad cream, I would post a recipe for homemade mayonnaise. This is an easy mayonnaise recipe, though it does require constant attention and preferably a blender or a hand whisk.
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Salad cream was invented by Heinz in 1914 and was very popular with working classes in the UK, a socialist salad dressing if you will. However, its popularity waned in the latter part of the century, with the arrival of the decadent mayonnaise, flaunting its spanish roots and pushing the humble salad cream to the side. But like any good socialist, salad cream would not go away and still remains a firm favourite in the UK with people who have refused to climb that social ladder to mayonnaise.
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Now that we know how to store Olive Oil, and building on the twisted oil ideas. I thought it would be useful to share other recipes for transforming olive oil into something extra special.
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