{"id":381,"date":"2008-08-26T11:52:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T11:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2008-08-26T11:52:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T11:52:22","slug":"my-mothers-salad-dressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"My Mother&#8217;s Salad Dressing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was my very favorite salad dressing when I was a kid.  I haven&#8217;t made it in ages, so I don&#8217;t have a photo, but it&#8217;s really yummy and is a perfect dressing to use when you have kids around and want to encourage them to eat their greens!  I&#8217;ll be making a batch for Boy and Girl soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mom&#8217;s Salad Dressing<\/strong><br \/>\n(sort of a sweet, Catalina-ish dressing)<\/p>\n<p>1 cup oil, your choice<br \/>\n1\/2 cup ketchup<br \/>\n1\/3 cup vinegar (your choice)<br \/>\n(maybe start out with apple cider for kids and then work your way up to balsamic)<br \/>\n1\/3 cup honey<br \/>\n1 tsp. salt<br \/>\n1 tsp. paprika<br \/>\ndash of onion and\/or garlic powder<br \/>\n(you may prefer to use some &#8211; maybe 2 Tbsp &#8211; finely chopped, fresh shallot instead)<br \/>\nsprinkle (1\/2 tsp?) of your favorite dried herb, optional<br \/>\noptional:  a dash of celery seed and\/or prepared mustard<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penzeys.com\/cgi-bin\/penzeys\/p-penzeyssunnyparis.html\"><br \/>\nPenzey&#8217;s Sunny Paris seasoning<\/a> is also great in this dressing (omit the onion, garlic, shallots, and herbs)<\/p>\n<p>Whisk together all ingredients, EXCEPTING THE OIL, into a medium-sized bowl.  Slowly pour the oil into the mixture, whisking constantly to blend and incorporate.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a photo!<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5752.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/IMG_5752.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"237\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was my very favorite salad dressing when I was a kid. I haven&#8217;t made it in ages, so I don&#8217;t have a photo, but it&#8217;s really yummy and is a perfect dressing to use when you have kids around and want to encourage them to eat their greens! I&#8217;ll be making a batch for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=381\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Mother&#8217;s Salad Dressing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}