Yellow Mustard With A Kick

This recipe, Yellow Mustard With A Kick, elevates many preparations with its spicy-hot blend of prepared yellow mustard, mustard powder, vinegar, and seasonings.

This recipe, Yellow Mustard With A Kick, makes the most of simple ingredients, prepared yellow mustard, mustard powder, and vinegar to create a creamy addition to mayonnaise, or other dressings.
Photo: Cynthia Dalton

Yellow Mustard With A Kick doesn’t mess around. It is pungent and assertive, not the type of condiment you’d want to eat by the spoonful straight from the jar (and if you do, you’re superhuman and not a little scary).

That said, this turns mayonnaise into a fantastic bread spread for a steak sandwich — just enough heat to bring out beefy goodness without overpowering it.

Its uses are many — marinades, salad dressings (both creamy and vinaigrette-style), soups, stews, sauces, pan sauces, and gravies — just to name a few. In fact, it would make a great extra addition to a Ranch Salad Dressing recipe. And, let’s not forget macaroni or potato salad.

For more about mustard, here’s a fun article from mentalfloss.com by Roma Panganiban, 13 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Mustard.

For example, the article points out:

Egyptian pharaohs stocked their tombs with mustard seeds to accompany them into the afterlife, but the Romans were the first to grind the spicy seeds into a spreadable paste and mix them with a flavorful liquid—usually, wine or vinegar.

And, interestingly enough:

As members of Brassica or Sinapis genera, mustard plants are close relatives to a surprising variety of common vegetables, including broccoli, cauliflower, turnips, and cabbage.

Makes sense come to think about it, those veggies do have a ‘mustardy’ component to their flavor profiles, especially in their raw state, and I remember my Mom often added mustard seeds to her cabbage dishes.

While this recipe isn’t excessive in its spiciness, if you like your flavors bold and with ‘personality’, I think you’ll take nicely to Yellow Mustard With A Kick!

Please let me know what you think in the Comments section below — I’d love to hear how you use mustard in your culinary creations.

 

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Yellow Mustard With A Kick
Simple ingredients make for a mustard with a real bite — this is a versatile condiment that adds real character to a variety of sauces, dressings, and dishes. © The Working Lunch Project
This recipe, Yellow Mustard With A Kick, makes the most of simple ingredients, prepared yellow mustard, mustard powder, and vinegar to create a creamy addition to mayonnaise, or other dressings.
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Course Multi-Use
Cuisine American
Prep Time 5 minutes
Passive Time 3 hours
Servings
1 (teaspoon) servings
Ingredients
Course Multi-Use
Cuisine American
Prep Time 5 minutes
Passive Time 3 hours
Servings
1 (teaspoon) servings
Ingredients
This recipe, Yellow Mustard With A Kick, makes the most of simple ingredients, prepared yellow mustard, mustard powder, and vinegar to create a creamy addition to mayonnaise, or other dressings.
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Instructions
  1. In a small bowl, thoroughly combine all ingredients.
  2. Cover, refrigerate, and allow flavors to develop several hours.
  3. Check the mustard for consistency — if mixture is too thick, add small drops of water until the desired texture is achieved.
  4. Transfer to a small, screw top jar and store in refrigerator. Keeps several weeks or more, as long as nothing errant makes its way into the jar.
Recipe Notes

Nutritional facts per serving:

10 calories

0.6g fat

29mg sodium

0.5g carbs

0.1g fiber

0.5g protein

 

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Ranch Salad Dressing

A Cabbage Side Course For Lunch
Photo: Cynthia Dalton

As a kid, I remember watching an episode of I Love Lucy in which Lucy gets so many compliments for a salad dressing she’s prepared, that she and Ethel Mertz decide to go into business together as salad dressing moguls.

They bottle a creamy white concoction, and of course, as they say, ‘hilarity ensues.’ 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.

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.

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

It seemed to me that the recipe had been altered from the original. Maybe it hadn’t. It may be that it just no longer matched my memory of a Lucy fantasy fulfilled.

So, I set out to reinvent my original, real or imagined, experience with the stuff.

Capturing my original enchantment with Ranch Salad Dressing, this dressing is like a soft, white, cotton sundress on a warm summer day.

 

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Ranch Salad Dressing
This dressing pairs well with crudités as a dip, and makes a wonderful coleslaw which I like to prepare by combining purple and green cabbage, shredded carrot, slivered radish, sliced ripe olives, chopped tomatoes, and sliced green onion. It does call for a couple of my favorite ingredients, Spike Vegit Magic Gourmet Natural Seasoning and Vege-Sal Spike Natural Seasoning, but you could replace the Vegit with a salt-free Italian herb blend and onion powder to taste and replace the Vege-Sal with celery salt to taste. The result will be different, but not bad. Vegit gives the dressing a nice toasted onion flavor which may be an acquired taste for some — you may wish to start with half the amount called for in the recipe. © The Working Lunch Project
A Cabbage Side Course For Lunch
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Course Lunch
Prep Time 10 minutes
Passive Time 3 hours
Servings
1/4 cup servings
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Course Lunch
Prep Time 10 minutes
Passive Time 3 hours
Servings
1/4 cup servings
Ingredients
A Cabbage Side Course For Lunch
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Instructions
  1. In a medium bowl, whisk together all ingredients.
  2. Transfer dressing to a container with a lid and chill in refrigerator several hours to allow flavors to meld. Use within 1 week.
Recipe Notes

Nutritional facts per serving:

238 calories

23g fat

1158mg sodium

6g carbs

0.1g fiber

4g protein

 

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