{"id":9204,"date":"2022-08-03T14:37:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T20:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/?p=9204"},"modified":"2022-08-03T14:37:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T20:37:40","slug":"tricky-blue-cheese-dressing-make-it-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/tricky-blue-cheese-dressing-make-it-last.html","title":{"rendered":"Tricky Blue Cheese Dressing &#8211; Make It Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to get a salad ready for picnics, potlucks, and other summer flings: prepare the cabbage, carrots, and hardy vegetables. Keep them in a big container or gallon bag. Lettice, tomatoes, cucumbers croutons etc. get prepared the day before. Keep in separate bags. Make the dressing and keep it in a big jar. Then, when needed,\u00a0 assemble cabbage\/lettuce, vegetables, etc., chopped parsley. The parsley doesn\u2019t add a significant flavor, but it does make the salad look like a show-stopper. You could also use ribbons of kale for a modern twist.<\/p>\n<p>The prepared vegetables without dressing will keep for 5 days in a bag. The dressing without blue cheese keeps\u2026 well, I can\u2019t say forever, but there\u2019s honestly not one thing in there that shouldn\u2019t keep for a month or two. Keep it in an airtight jar in the fridge. With blue cheese in it, use it within a week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dressing Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 c mayonnaise, low-fat is fine, as is swapping half with yogurt<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 c\u00a0 smooth Dijon mustard<\/li>\n<li>3 Tab whole grain mustard<\/li>\n<li>2 Tab apple cider vinegar<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp\u00a0celery seed<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp kosher salt<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 c (6 ounces) crumbled blue cheese<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Directions &#8211; dressing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Mix the mayonnaise, mustards, vinegar, celery seed, salt, and pepper in a small bowl.<\/li>\n<li>Stir in blue cheese, if using.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Serves:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Around 3 cups<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Actually part of another recipe but a genius way to always have blue cheese dressing.\u00a0 You can shake for vinaigrette or blend for creamy.\u00a0 Homemade creamy blue cheese dressing seem to &#8220;break&#8221; &#8211; turn thin and watery &#8211; in a couple of days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to get a salad ready for picnics, potlucks, and other summer flings: prepare the cabbage, carrots, and hardy vegetables. Keep them in a big container or gallon bag. Lettice, tomatoes, cucumbers croutons etc. get prepared the day before. Keep in separate bags. Make the dressing and keep it in a big jar. Then, when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/tricky-blue-cheese-dressing-make-it-last.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tricky Blue Cheese Dressing &#8211; Make It Last&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-9204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salad-dressings","tag-gk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9208,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9204\/revisions\/9208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}