salad dressing

Fruit? Check. Vegetables? Check. A fat-rich dressing? Check! Fact: The healthy fat in salad dressing helps your body get the good stuff out of all those veggies, says a new study in the journal Molecular Nutrition & Food Research.

Avoid extra calories and unwanted preservatives with a fresh homemade dressing.

I’m a fairly recent beet fan; however, I can’t say I’ve made much time to cook with them. Beets always seem like such a pain in the butt to prepare and cook, don’t they? The peeling, the red stains, the roots, the dirt – I used to pass them by for easier-to-prepare vegetables, even though I have grown to love the taste of cooked beets.

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10-minute gourmet: Three variations of this basic dressing that goes great with greens – and four more ways to use it!