Sometimes I get caught up in all the ‘fancy’ salads with dried cherries, gorgonzola, pecans, and some amazing vinaigrette dressing. I suppose they aren’t really that fancy but it’s more than just your tomatos and onion with ranch.

This week, my sweetheart and I were feeling less than stellar so we decided to whip up a greek salad. It just sounded SO GOOD!

I often forget about the beauty of a greek salad in its simplicity.  A good dressing (homemade with fresh herbs), sweet and sour beets (for fun), good feta, pepperoncini, sliced onion, fresh cherry tomatoes, and of course, kalamata olives.

Sure, it has more than three ingredients but there’s hardly any prep-tear up some good quality lettuce (we did red leaf and green), slice up a bit of onion and blend a little dressing. The rest is open up the container and toss what you like on!

I’ll be honest, if I hadn’t been so excited to make the salad, I would have been more mindful of how I was making the dressing because it was AWESOME!

All the recipes for greek dressing that I came across in a quick search were all based on dried herbs. Well, I have a well stocked fridge and planter of fresh herbs so I decided to wing it and make my own with what I had on hand. Absolutely amazing and totally worth the three seconds it took to toss it all in the processor.

If you’re feeling brave, you can craft your own fresh greek salad dressing too.

Here’s how I did it:

• olive oil // 3tbls to start
• apple cider vinegar // to taste
• fresh garlic cloves // 3, I like it on the spicy side
• pub mustard // to taste-1 tsp to start
• Few springs of oregano
• 6 leaves of basil
• salt + pepper // to taste

Now-the real question is: how much olive oil and vinegar?  My best guess is to start with 3 tablespoons of olive oil and 1 of apple cider vinegar and then add more vinegar to taste.  I wasn’t measuring so it was all to taste. I’d blend for a few seconds and then taste, adding a dash of whatever seemed to be missing for me.

Someday I’ll do this properly and give you a real greek dressing recipe featuring fresh herbs!

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I’d love to hear what your favorite kind of salad is too!

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