Easy Salad Dressing

One of my readers asked me to share some of my salad dressing recipes.... I must admit that none of these are my recipes.  They are recipes that people have taught me.  I can't show you the wonderful caesar salad recipe because it is a family secret I was only lucky enough to learn by marrying into such a great family.  Today I will show you the easiest.... but fantastic recipe and one of my favorites!
Ingredients:

lettuce
olive oil
white wine vinegar
1 clove garlic
dijon mustard
avocado
parmesan cheese
pine nuts

First you wash your lettuce (duh) - I like to use red leaf lettuce but this is great with whatever lettuce you like to use.
Then you get out your big salad bowl and some extra virgin olive oil. This is what I used...

For this recipe I measured so I could tell you what I'm doing. I used 1/4 cup of olive oil (double everything if there are more people, I made this for just me, Chris and Chloe).

Then you add white wine vinegar (for vinegar you use about half of the amount of oil used).  Next, I added dijon mustard. I didn't measure, but I took a picture.... about this much

Then add one clove of minced garlic. More or less depending on how strong you want the garlic flavor. One clove is perfect for our taste.

After mixing with a fork, I added 1 avocado cut up into big chunks! I added the avocados this time because I was craving them.  

Hmm, I could eat just a bowl of avocados for dinner!  Of course you can skip the avocados if you don't like them. (But how could you not love them?)

Next lightly roast some pine nuts.  Careful not to burn them, you just want to brown them a little. 

After tossing the lettuce in the dressing, pour some grated parmesan cheese on top- maybe 1/8 cup and toss well. Then toss the pine nuts on top and you get this...

This is the yummiest salad.  We all love it!  I can't touch bottled dressing anymore after having this a few years ago.  It is awesome with the pine nuts but when we are out of them I make it without or add some croutons for a little crunch. This is a salad that we all go back for seconds and thirds and fight over the last pine nuts and avocados at the bottom!

If you try this recipe out, please let me know how you like it!  If you have homemade salad dressing recipes you like, please share!

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