COOK'S NOTE: Recipe may be halved for smaller families.
Week of March 18, 2012
More low fat salad dressing recipes! If you like a little sweetness in your dressing, you will love this. This is so good with grilled chicken salad.
Balsamic Honey Mustard Dressing
Serves 2
1 tablespoon honey
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard or 1 tablespoon stone ground mustard
3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar or more if desired
Couple of turns of your pepper mill
Blend honey and mustard in a small bowl with a fork until emulsified. Add black pepper.
Drizzle in the balsamic vinegar until dressing is just thin enough to pour over salad.
After taking a look at these markups, you might want to invest in a good set of knives. You will come out with more money in your pocket.
Presliced or Chopped Ready to Use Produce
Produce that has been presliced, prechopped, or diced for consumers will cost on average 35% more than buying the whole vegetable or fruit. Often it is even more if artfully packaged with other precut veggies that are packaged to go with a whole dish like stew or kebabs. Shoppers pay for a convenience that takes no more than five minutes to do. Worth it? Only you can answer that.
Cubed, Presliced Meat or Poultry
The markup is 30% to 60% more for precut or precubed meats.
Beef steak is usually marked up 40% to 50%; some cheaper cuts, such as round and chuck meat, are marked up as much as 60%. Lesser cuts of meat, those typically cut into pieces for stir-fries or stews are marked up as much as 300% !!!
COOK'S TIP: It is much easier to slice thin slices of meat or poultry if you place in the freezer and until it just begins to become firm but not frozen through.
Nice plus for dieters: It is easier to remove the fat from the whole piece of meat than those small pieces.
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