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Plan Z Phase: This a Z3 (ZReboot) recipe.

Many people use buttermilk in their salad dressings. I tend not to because I don’t use buttermilk very often. When I buy it for a recipe, the leftover buttermilk ends up going to waste. I like this recipe because it makes a delicious salad dressing without having to use buttermilk at all. In fact, I usually have all these ingredients in my house! It’s also a great way to use up extra blue cheese laying in the cheese drawer – just make sure the cheese is still fresh!

The first time I made this, I put it on top of a wedge salad…and felt like I was eating dinner in a steakhouse. It’s that good.

Servings: Serves 6

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup mayo
• 1/4 cup sour cream
• 1/4 cup whole milk
• 1/3 cup blue cheese crumbled into bits. I use Danish blue or Stilton. Use your favorite – the better the cheese, the better the dressing will taste!
• 2 dashes of Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tablespoon of fresh chives, chopped into small bits (optional)
• salt
• freshly ground black pepper

Instructions:

Mix the mayo and sour cream together. Slowly add the milk and stir until mixed through. If you want your dressing thick like a dip, use less milk. Add the blue cheese crumbles and mix again (I use a fork to mix the cheese in). Sometimes, if your crumbles are too big, they may stick to the tines of your fork, so I try to keep my blue cheese bits rather small. But, you don’t have to. If you like bigger blue cheese bits in your dressing, just brush them off the fork as they clump and keep mixing.

Add your Worcestershire sauce, chives, and salt and pepper.

Taste it – your dressing will have a nice depth of flavor, but it won’t have a prominent blue cheese flavor until it rests and the flavors combine. That takes about an hour. After it rests, the flavor will deepen, so don’t add more blue cheese…yet. Cover it with saran wrap, pop it in the fridge, and taste it again in an hour.

See what I mean?

At this point, if you want to adjust your flavors, you can. If your blue cheese flavor is stronger than you like, add sour cream. If you want more of a blue cheese flavor, add more blue cheese crumbles. If you want it thinner, add more milk.

Because you’re not using any preservatives, this dressing should keep about 1-2 weeks in the fridge…but it never lasts that long in my house.

Enjoy!

Cheers,