Homemade Thousand Island Dressing

Besides its use for salads, this common salad dressing, which is easy to make, is also good on hamburgers and other sandwiches.

Ingredients (for about 1 cup):

3/4 cup mayonnaise (reduced fat type is fine)
2 tablespoons chopped sweet gherkins (pickles)
3 tablespoons chili sauce (not hot)
1 teaspoon white vinegar
1 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon finely chopped onion
1/4 teaspoon black pepper

Put all ingredients into a bowl, mix well, cover and refrigerate for a couple of ours. Refrigerate and cover unused portion, but best used within a couple of days.

My homemade thousand island dressing with sliced tomatoes and hardboiled egg.

WORD HISTORY:
Coach-This word, used both as a noun and as a verb, goes back to the town of "Kocs," ^ located in northern Hungary. The town made coaches/carriages a few hundred years ago, which the Hungarians called "kocsi szekér," meaning "carriage of Kocs," and these vehicles became widely known in Europe. German borrowed the term, which eventually became the shortened modern German form, "Kutsche," but there were various spellings originally, some beginning with the letter "c," coupled with the word "Wagen," which means "cart, wagon" (of course, English has "wagon"). French borrowed the word from German as "coche," and English borrowed it from French in the mid 1500s. The word came to be used for modern vehicles, like buses and trains, and the use of the word for an instructor, especially, but certainly not exclusively, for sports teams, comes from the notion, "transporting a person or people to some goal by leadership and teaching."

^ Pronounced like "kutsh" (the "u" like in "put").