Blue cheese and greek yogurt

My friend Rebecca told me about a dressing she recently enjoyed featuring two of my favorite taste sensations:  blue cheese and greek yogurt.

Now Rebecca must be a very confident cook because when she sent me the "recipe", it consisted simply of five ingredients:  low fat plain greek yogurt, blue cheese, red wine vinegar, finely sliced scallions and sugar, and basically no instruction.

I am not such a confident cook, so I measure everything (or almost).  I used:

7 oz        low fat plain greek yogurt
6 oz        blue cheese (I love blue cheese, this amount could be too much for some palates)
2 T         red wine vinegar (plus more to try to thin it out)
1 t          sugar
2            finely sliced scallions.

You just mix it all up.  It is so thick, I kept adding vinegar, but it would not thin out.  This is definitely a spooning dressing, not a pouring one.  I think it works better with heartier greens rather than fine ones.  It could also be used as a vegetable dip, in fact my friend, Carol, thought it was better that way than as a salad dressing.

But the richness of these two flavors, the yogurt and the cheese, is just delicious.

Balsamic Vinaigrette

My friend, Barb told me about this dressing -- so, let's call it Barb's Vinaigrette:

7 oz olive oil
2 oz balsamic vinegar
salt and pepper


Whisk or shake

The balsamic taste is very strong.  Balsamic tastes "sweet" to me, and I don't always like that, but this is an excellent, everyday dressing.  Add garlic and/or blue cheese and it is absolutely outstanding.

Also great as a dipping oil.