I would like to thank you all for your words of sympathy regarding our recent loss. With all these things going on around here, unfortunately I didn’t have the chance to follow you as often as I wanted and also didn’t have the time to post about a tag. My fellow blogger Elisabeth from Food and Thrift Finds tagged me to present a course of 5 to 10 dishes for Easter. Sadly, Easter has passed and to be honest we didn’t do anything in particular, since we were in bereavement. Nevertheless, mother’s day is on its way and regardless, I think we don’t need a special occasion to make something special for our loved ones isn’t it? Thanks again Elizabeth for the tagging!
As I was going through my blog, I realized that I haven’t posted a salad lately, nor did I have as many salad recipes as I would like.
This happens not because we do not eat salads. On the contrary, during weekdays we eat only salads for diet purposes. So, the reason I don’t post about salads is that, I eat too many salads and for me it is something very common and usual. Thus, when it comes to blogging, I want to post about the mouthwatering things I cook during the weekends, because only during weekend do we get the chance to taste all these things you see in this blog.
But since I am trying to return to my daily routine here and since I have to post about the dishes I would offer to a celebration I thought that a salad would be a good idea for this post. The dressing for this salad was superb and I made a whole bottle which dressed many of our salads apart from this one. The recipe for this dressing is a copycat from Kraft’s Catalina Salad Dressing and you can find it in cdkitchen. I recommend this to you with closed eyes and it is a dressing that pleases all ages.
Green Salad with Catalina Dressing
Ingredients
1 salad
3 carrots, grated
5 cucumber pickles
130 gr. corn
1 onion, chopped
5 kalamata olives
3 Santorini pomodori
Catalina Salad Dressing
Ingredients
¼ tsp pepper
¼ cup vinegar
½ cup ketchup
½ tsp salt
1 onion, grated
½ cup sugar
1 cup olive oil
Instructions
Mix all the ingredients except the olive oil which you will add slowly slowly in the end. Put in the fridge for at least 1 hour. Prepare the salad and pour 3 to 4 tbsp from the dressing on top.
I am sending this to Deb’s Kahakai Kitchen for Souper Sundays.
Now regarding the tag I would choose the following dishes for a formal or informal gathering
As an appetizer I would choose the Stuffed Florina Peppers
Or the Kolokithokeftedes
As a salad I would choose either the one posted above or The Cretan Dakos
For main course I would make either the Balsamic Glazed Pork Tenderloin
or the Poached Salmon Teriyaki
As a dessert I would definitely make The Molten Chocolate Cakes
or the Chocolate Charlotte with Rum
Green Salad with Catalina Dressing
Author/ Συγγραφέας: Katerina
Recipe type/ Τύπος Πιάτου: Salad
Cuisine/ Κουζίνα: International
Ingredients/ Συστατικά
- 1 salad
- 3 carrots, grated
- 5 cucumber pickles
- 130 gr./ 4 oz. corn
- 1 onion, chopped
- 5 kalamata olives
- 3 Santorini pomodori
Catalina Salad Dressing
- ¼ tsp pepper
- ¼ cup vinegar
- ½ cup ketchup
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 onion, grated
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 cup olive oil
Instructions/ Εκτέλεση
- Mix all the ingredients except the olive oil which you will add slowly slowly in the end.
- Put in the fridge for at least 1 hour.
- Prepare the salad and pour 3 to 4 tbsp from the dressing on top.
Notes/ Σημειώσεις
Recipe for Catalina Dressing from cdkitchen
Πράσινη Σαλάτα με Καταλίνα Ντρέσινγκ
Author/ Συγγραφέας: Κατερίνα
Recipe type/ Τύπος Πιάτου: Σαλάτα
Cuisine/ Κουζίνα: Διεθνής
Ingredients/ Συστατικά
- 1 σαλάτα
- 3 καρότα, τριμμένα
- 5 αγγουράκια τουρσί, ψιλοκομμένα
- 130 γρ. καλαμπόκι
- 1 κρεμμύδι τριμμένο
- 5 ελιές
- 3 ντοματίνια Σαντορίνης
Καταλίνα Ντρέσινγκ
- ¼ κ.γ. πιπέρι
- ¼ φλ. ξύδι
- ½ φλ. κέτσαπ
- ½ κ.γ. αλάτι
- 1 κρεμμύδι, τριμμένο
- ½ φλ. ζάχαρη
- 1 φλ. ελαιόλαδο
Instructions/ Εκτέλεση
- Ανακατέψτε όλα τα υλικά για το ντρέσινγκ εκτός από το ελαιόλαδο, το οποίο θα το προσθέσετε στο τέλος σιγά σιγά.
- Βάλτε στο ψυγείο για τουλάχιστον 1 ώρα.
- Ετοιμάστε τη σαλάτα και ρίξτε 3 με 4 κουταλιές της σούπας από το ντρέσινγκ και ανακατέψτε να πάει παντού.
Notes/ Σημειώσεις
Προσαρμογή του Καταλίνα ντρέσινγκ από το cdkitchen