Woah, what happened to last week? Apparently I dropped off the face of the Earth after Monday, oopsies. I don’t even have a good excuse. I have a tall stack of recipes ready-to-share, but I just couldn’t find the time to sit down and post. Call it busy, call it lazy, you might be right on both accounts. Speaking of busy and lazy — notice that head of definitely not lettuce in the background? Sometimes you have to use what you have on hand, and in my case it was this green cabbage. It was on sale for 15 cents!! Send me cabbage recipes, please. I bought a million.
As far as salad dressings go, I have a few favorites. Caesar salad is always on the top of my list because cheese. Other than that, I like anything to do with Balsamic and definitely French dressing. So you can see that I’m a fan of tangy dressings. This French dressing is the tangiest of the tangiest. With vinegar, lemon juice, and (surprisingly) ketchup as the main ingredients, you should have everything on hand to whip this up any time a craving strikes. There’s yogurt for creaminess, but the natural preservative properties of vinegar and lemon help this dressing keep for months in the fridge.
If you aren’t as into tang as I am, increase the yogurt (you can also swap for mayo). I’ve also been known to swirl French and Ranch dressings together on my salads to achieve tangy and creamy in alternating bites. Store bought French dressings can be overly sweet and loaded with sugar and/or high fructose corn syrup. This dressing has the perfect amount of sweet from agave nectar and no weirdo creepy ingredients.
Happy St Patrick’s day! Try to drink too much green beer on a Monday! Apparently when I was 4, I tried to order on at a restaurant. Yes, I am that classy.
Tagged with: Dressing • Egg Free • Gluten Free • Nut Free • Soy Free • Vegan • Vegetarian
This French Dressing recipe from Kelly Hutchinson is… AMAZING! I just made it a few minutes ago for my garden salad. I am more of a ranch dressing kind of girl but THIS is better than any ranch dressing I’ve ever made. THANK YOU sooo much! My husband is going to absolutely love it. I plan to make this dressing often. 😉
Yay! Glad it was a hit. I normally prefer Ranch too but it’s hard to get right at home, especially if you don’t want to use a whole jar of mayo, haha.
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I have always loved French dressing and was pleased to see your recipe which sounds delicious.
However, when I went to copy it down, I noticed that there was no lemon or amount to use in the
actual recipe instructions.
Thanks for the feedback, Anne! Seems a little silly of me that I put them in the photo but then forgot them in the recipe. I’m updating the recipe right now. It should call for the juice of 1 lemon, added alongside the vinegar.
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Yum! I love French dressing, but never realized that was the dressing used on Taco salads – my family always used ranch.
What brands would you suggest for ketchup that is vegan, as sugar-free as possible, natural as possible?
Fittingintovegan — Vegan ketchup is an easy one: pretty much all ketchups are! I’m not sure how 100% true this is, but according to Heinz (as cited by PETA) it can’t actually be defined as “ketchup” if there are animal products added as far as the FDA is concerned. I like Hunt’s 100% natural or No-salt varieties and I’ve found locally made ketchup in the organic market in my small town. Heinz has a Reduced Sugar variety that has only 1g of sugar but does use sucralose. You can make your own ketchup using tomato paste very quickly, but I don’t have a recipe to share quite yet (doing a google search will fetch MANY vegan, naturally sweetened options but I don’t have a recipe I’m 100% satisfied with yet and haven’t tried any specific online recipes to link you to.)
Note: If you’re the kind of vegan that sources your sugar, you’ll likely run into issues with most packaged foods. For me, I consider sugar to be safe because boycotting an otherwise vegetarian/vegan product because of a minor technicality sends the message that we won’t support meatless foods. It’s a decision that everyon needs to make for themself, however and it’s something to consider when taking my preferences above to heart
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I haven’t had French dressing in FOREVER but there was a time when I ate it nonstop!
Had to laugh at your cabbage/lettuce substitution. I hate to say I haven’t been there, but….
LOL!! Did you really try to order a beer when you were 4?!? That’s hilarious!!!
My little one and I love French dressing! But you are totally right about the store bought versions – too sweet with some weird ingredients! YUCK!
I seriously love your dressing recipes!! Thanks!!
Gretchen — My mom thought it was so funny, that she still texts me every year to remind me of the “good ole days” when I did adorable things like that, ha.
I like that you made this with Greek yogurt and agave nector. Looks good!