Homemade Blue Cheese Dressing
This dressing has grown ever more popular over the years, not only for use on salads, but also to go along with spicy chicken wings, especially "Buffalo Wings," and as a topping for various sandwiches, including hamburgers.
Ingredients:
3 ounces blue cheese (Gorgonzola or Roquefort are excellent)
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup sour cream
1/4 cup buttermilk (if the mixture is too thick, add a little more buttermilk)
1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon pepper
Mix the mayonnaise, sour cream, buttermilk, garlic powder and pepper in a bowl (or you could use a blender). In a small dish, dissolve the sugar in the vinegar and then add to the other ingredients. Mash the blue cheese in a dish, then add it in bits and pieces to the dressing, stirring so it won't clump together. Chill the dressing before serving.
I put a few pieces of blue cheese on top for the photo
WORD HISTORY:
Blue-This is a word, distantly related to "bleach," with an original English version, later influenced in pronunciation by a foreign borrowing, which itself was a roundabout borrowing from the same original Germanic source as the English word. If I haven't confused as yet, just give me time. The word goes back to Indo European "blehg," which had the notion of "shine, pale, bright." This produced Indo European "bleh," which meant, "shiny light color, yellow, blue." This gave its Old Germanic offspring "blewaz," meaning "blue," then this gave Old English (Anglo-Saxon) "blæwen," meaning "light blue, bluish in color." Meanwhile, Old French had borrowed "blew" from the Germanic dialect Frankish, which supplemented its word "blef," also meaning "blue," but which had come to Old French from Latin "blavus," itself a borrowing from the Old Germanic form, "blewaz." The French form "blew" was carried to England by the Normans, and began to blend with the related native English word, and became "blewe, before the modern form. Modern French has "bleu." The other Germanic languages have: German, Low German and West Frisian have "blau," Dutch has "blauw," Danish, Swedish and Norwegian have "blå" and Icelandic has "blár."
Ingredients:
3 ounces blue cheese (Gorgonzola or Roquefort are excellent)
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup sour cream
1/4 cup buttermilk (if the mixture is too thick, add a little more buttermilk)
1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon pepper
Mix the mayonnaise, sour cream, buttermilk, garlic powder and pepper in a bowl (or you could use a blender). In a small dish, dissolve the sugar in the vinegar and then add to the other ingredients. Mash the blue cheese in a dish, then add it in bits and pieces to the dressing, stirring so it won't clump together. Chill the dressing before serving.
I put a few pieces of blue cheese on top for the photo
Blue-This is a word, distantly related to "bleach," with an original English version, later influenced in pronunciation by a foreign borrowing, which itself was a roundabout borrowing from the same original Germanic source as the English word. If I haven't confused as yet, just give me time. The word goes back to Indo European "blehg," which had the notion of "shine, pale, bright." This produced Indo European "bleh," which meant, "shiny light color, yellow, blue." This gave its Old Germanic offspring "blewaz," meaning "blue," then this gave Old English (Anglo-Saxon) "blæwen," meaning "light blue, bluish in color." Meanwhile, Old French had borrowed "blew" from the Germanic dialect Frankish, which supplemented its word "blef," also meaning "blue," but which had come to Old French from Latin "blavus," itself a borrowing from the Old Germanic form, "blewaz." The French form "blew" was carried to England by the Normans, and began to blend with the related native English word, and became "blewe, before the modern form. Modern French has "bleu." The other Germanic languages have: German, Low German and West Frisian have "blau," Dutch has "blauw," Danish, Swedish and Norwegian have "blå" and Icelandic has "blár."
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posted by Randy at 8:47 AM
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I like blue cheese dressing w\buffalo wings and celery
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