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<\/p>\nHaving my own garden has always been high on my bucket list. I mean, what’s more ‘One Ingredient’ than growing and harvesting your own food straight from the soil? So when a 100 sq. ft. plot opened up at my local community garden last December, I had to jump on it… even though I had no gardening experience.<\/p>\n
Like anything worth doing, there was a huge learning curve, a lot of hard work to be done, and not many results at first. But fast forward 4 months and many YouTube gardening tutorials later, and things have exploded… dozens of sugar snap peas, bok choy, radishes (daikon and red belle), beets, multi-colored carrots, and more salad greens than I could ever use \u2013 handfuls of spicy arugula, bags of fresh kale, bunches of crispy spinach, and a near-infinite amount of baby lettuce.<\/p>\n
So, as you might imagine, salads have been on my mind a lot lately. Today I thought I’d share my three favorite simple salad dressing recipes. They are all very different, very easy to make, and add a ton of variety to your salads.<\/p>\n
Then, don’t forget to check out some of my garden photos below \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
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This oil-free vinaigrette is a super-fresh low calorie dressing that adds a ton of tangy sweetness to any salad. It’s super versatile and you would be hard-pressed to find a salad where this dressing doesn’t<\/em> work well, but I particularly like how it cuts through the bitterness of more intense greens. Pairing this one with a salad of arugula and fresh fruit is perfection.<\/p>\n Makes about 1 cup<\/strong><\/p>\n When I said these dressings were simple, I wasn’t kidding. They all follow the same two-step process: 1) Add all ingredients to a blender and blend until smooth. 2) Taste, and adjust any flavors to suit your preferences. Done!<\/p>\n For best results, store refrigerated in a sealed mason jar.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I use these classic flavors of peanut butter, soy sauce, and sesame in a lot of dishes, and they make a pretty yummy Asian-inspired salad dressing as well. This one is incredible tossed with a salad of shredded cabbage, carrots, green onions, and sesame seeds. It also works well as a marinade for tofu, or just a dipping sauce for fresh vegetables.<\/p>\n Makes about 1 cup<\/strong><\/p>\n Once again, the process is the same: 1) Add all ingredients to a blender and blend until smooth. 2) Taste, and adjust any flavors to suit your preferences.<\/p>\n Store refrigerated in a sealed mason jar.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Those of you who read my blog regularly will not be surprised to see that I’m using cashews… It is true that 90% of my recipes these days use this ingredient, but I promise I’m not getting kickbacks from the cashew farmers (though, I should really look into that…).<\/p>\n The reason is that cashews make the perfect plant-based cream when blended. Here, we’re turning that cream into a ranch dressing with kicked-up flavors of smoked paprika and nutritional yeast.<\/p>\n This one pairs perfectly with a simple salad of torn kale leaves and sliced green onions.<\/p>\n Makes about 1 cup<\/strong><\/p>\n Here, the process is the same, but the cashews do need to be soaked for 1-6 hours before blending. This adds another step: 1) soak the cashews and drain of their soaking water. 2) Add all ingredients to a blender and blend until smooth, adding as much water as needed to create the right Ranch dressing consistency. 3) Taste, and adjust any flavors to suit your preferences.<\/p>\n Store refrigerated in a sealed mason jar.<\/p>\n Rows and rows of mixed baby lettuce… So many sugar snap peas! Very disappointing broccoli – the weather became too hot before real florets could form \ud83d\ude41 These two wild arugula plants are going crazy. One of my favorite ingredients, these green onions are almost ready! This spinach is growing faster than I can harvest it. So. Much. KALE! Having my own garden has always been high on my bucket list. I mean, what’s more ‘One Ingredient’ than growing and harvesting your own food straight from the soil? So… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6737"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11128,"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737\/revisions\/11128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\nIngredients:<\/h4>\n
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\nPeanut Sesame Dressing<\/h3>\n
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\nSmoked Paprika Ranch Dressing<\/h3>\n
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\nAnd now for some gratuitous garden photos…<\/h4>\n
\n![\"Lettuce\"](\"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Lettuce.jpg\")
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\n![\"peas\"](\"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/peas.jpg\")
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\n![\"Broccoli\"](\"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Broccoli.jpg\")
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\n![\"Arugula\"](\"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Arugula.jpg\")
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\n![\"GreenOnions\"](\"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/GreenOnions.jpg\")
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\n![\"Spinach\"](\"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Spinach.jpg\")
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\n![\"Kale\"](\"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kale.jpg\")
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