{"id":65,"date":"2017-01-27T05:47:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T05:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theworkinglunchproject.com\/cms\/?post_type=recipe&p=65"},"modified":"2017-08-18T22:53:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T22:53:02","slug":"ranch-salad-dressing","status":"publish","type":"recipe","link":"http:\/\/www.theworkinglunchproject.com\/?recipe=ranch-salad-dressing","title":{"rendered":"Ranch Salad Dressing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: Cynthia Dalton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As a kid, I remember watching an episode of I Love Lucy<\/em> in which Lucy gets so many compliments for a salad dressing she\u2019s prepared, that she and Ethel Mertz decide to go into business together as salad dressing moguls.<\/p>\n

They bottle a creamy white concoction, and of course, as they say, \u2018hilarity ensues.\u2019 Shades of things to come, I was less interested in the comedy and more interested in fantasizing about how that savory milkiness might taste, sluicing just about anything one might bring in from the garden.<\/p>\n

My fantasy became reality a few years later when a Ranch Salad Dressing hit the market in the form of seasonings in a pouch requiring only the addition of mayonnaise and milk.<\/p>\n

Later, it was even easier to buy the dressing in a bottle. But, as time went on, I became disenchanted with the stuff \u2014 it seemed to have changed over time \u2014 more cloying than seasoned herbaceous-ness.<\/p>\n

It seemed to me that the recipe had been altered from the original. Maybe it hadn\u2019t. It may be that it just no longer matched my memory of a Lucy<\/em> fantasy fulfilled.<\/p>\n

So, I set out to reinvent my original, real or imagined, experience with the stuff.<\/p>\n

Capturing my original enchantment with Ranch Salad Dressing, this dressing is like a soft, white, cotton sundress on a warm summer day.<\/p>\n

 
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