I made martini vinegarette dressing!Husband did the salad part. We shopped together and divided up the making of the other courses as well....soup (Campbell's potato garlic), salad and fresh-cut roast beef sandwiches. We love cooking together....romantic and good quality time. My husband surprises me in that he actually enjoys that I photograph our pretty meals (he even helps me set the table/photo)....I am lucky in this.
We striped the cucumbers because I like the look of them that way. We bought one good sweet yellow onion and chose the cheapest head of lettuce. We also used vine-ripe tomatoes (that was nice as we hardly ever buy good tomatoes any more...they have grown so expensive everywhere).
We started by cheating in a way. A suggestion forum called for a vinaigrette as a base. We bought Ken's Steakhouse Lite Olive Oil Vingarette and plan to use remainder of the bottle for another salad. This blended all the flavors perfectly.
I chopped up manzilla olives....that was sort of labor intensive. For the juice in the dressing, we used concentrated lemon and I have a large bottle left for cooking....I read that most any citrus juice works good with vinaigrette. We used "Three Olives", a vodka imported from England (instead of gin)....a nice vodka, by the way, that I have a rebate offer for.
We had plenty of leftovers of every ingredient. :-)
