These are a few of my favorite things.....

I LOVE salad. I LOVE soup. I LOVE egg salad sandwiches. I LOVE potato salad. No, I'm not 70 years+. I'm just a girl who isn't afraid to admit her favorite food even if it's commonly referred to as Old People Home food.

The reason I mention my favorite things is this: people assume that those items are boring. Yes, boring. I have to agree that I have come across bland soups & egg salad sandwiches in my time, but they don't have to be!!! Screw the dill and add a little curry to spice up an eggie sandwich! Add some chili flakes to your next salad dressing! BTW, one of the best eggie sandwiches I have ever had the delight in eating was one I bought from a little corner store/deli/liquor store/movie store/last place on earth to buy Thrills gum (yes the gum that tastes like soap), on the Sunshine Coast in Halfmoon Bay. The best potato salad hands down is my mom's (especially the last batch).

So tonight Rob wanted barnyard and potatoes. So I made my challenge a salad dressing. I have the most awesomest (yes that's a word) salad dressing book, Salad Dressing 101. The recipes are fantastic and they do it on a rating system. 1 to 3. For example, if a recipe as the #2 rating, then that dressing is best for the more hearty greens.

So I made a salad dressing tonight. Honey, paprika, red wine vinegar, tarragon, dried basil, pepper, salt & olive oil. I dipped my finger and it was pretty tasty. Anyway, we forgot to eat the salad. We were consumed with Dragon's Den and forgot to take the salad to the table. Our loft is about 1001 degrees so by the time we finished dinner and went into the kitchen the salad looked like it had been beaten with an ugly stick. But I did dip my finger pre-dinner and it was tasty so that technically counts. SO THERE!