The Ospidillo Cafe Italian Salad Dressing

This is delicious! I did sub one ingredient and that was the white wine vinegar for apple cider vinegar. I don't think that it changed the recipe and it is yummy! I could see using this for a basting sauce while grilling chicken. This makes alot and that is fine with me. I will make this again and again and again. Thank you pat for this tastey salad dressing. 1/1/10: edit to add made this again with my new immersion blender and added blue cheese oh yummy! Shirl

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I tweaked the recipe just a bit based on other reviews; uping the vinegar just a tad and lowering the oil just a tad. I used Delallo's Rosemary & Garlic Dipping spices instead of preparing the mixture described, and used Splenda in place of the sugar. I blended, instead of mixed and did not run it for the entire 20 minutes. I made a salad of romaine, red peppers, shredded fontinella, shredded mozzarella, crumbled bacon and croutons and topped with this dressing. Quite fabulous and easy to throw together. I am interested to see how it tastes tomorrow after all the flavors have blended. Thanks for a nice, home-made dressing.

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Despite being a dietary nightmare with the huge amount of oil (nearly a 4:1 ratio of oils to vinegar!), along with mayonnaise, sugar, and honey, this is a dressing I had wanted to try for awhile. Like another reviewer, when I made it as directed, I found it to be lacking in flavor, incredibly oily, and a bit too much on the sweet side. It did emulsify pretty well. After tweaking it a fair bit, adding more spices, more salt, and a few extra splashes of vinegar, it was alright, especially on a spinach salad. Giving it time in the fridge is definitely a must.

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I'm sorry. I tweaked and tweaked this dressing and still couldn't get the flavor where I wanted it to be. It was just alright, not enough flavor, too oily. Made as recipe states, then started adding ingredients.

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Really a good dressing. Went perfectly with dinner tonight. Thanks for sharing.

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This dressing is great. Exactly what I was looking for. I didn't change a thing and won't!

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Great salad dressing...I made this for our sunday dinner..I served this on Mam Rose's Pepperoni Pizza Salad #204704...I was wonderful

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This dressing was very good. Like CheeyBear, I substituted white balsamic vinegar, and Equal with excellent results. I think the dressing actually improves with time in the fridge, so making ahead is not just an option, but is to be recommended. I also used the Italian Spice Blend that Bone Man suggested, and the bonus is that I have two new recipes that will go into my "best of the best" file. Thank you Bone Man. Kathy

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A very nice salad dressing. Didn't have any yellow mustard, so subbed brown mustard.

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Sorry, but we did not care for this recipe. I followed the directions as stated, however, it was much too sweet for our taste.

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This dressing is soooo awesome! The only thing I did differently was to substitute balsamic vinegar for the white wine vinegar and splenda for the sugar. Perfect!

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The only problems I've experienced with this dressing is that is is absolutely addictive!!!

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We liked the taste of this dressing. It was a little thinner than we like our dressing but I probably didn't mix it long enough. Thanks Bone Man. Bullwinkle.

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Great reviews from my family on this! Fairly easy to make. Thanks!

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I reduced the dressing size to 1 cup. This was wonderful, even without chilling. I served over romaine lettuce, sliced spinach, grated carrots, crumble bacon and chopped cucumber. I enjoyed it immensely. It reminded me of the Olive Garden recipe. Roxygirl

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Wow this is great homemade Italian dressing! as a matter of fact one of the best homemade I have tryed so far, and I have tryed many! This is a definate keeper for me, I'm so glad I tryed this, it's much better than any bottled dressing...I used fresh minced garlic in place the powder, thanks so much for posting this great recipe Boneman!...Kitten:)

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Excellent salad dressing, Bone Man! A very good balance of flavors. One thing I wanted to point out...definately refrigerate AT LEAST 30 minutes as is directed. I was a bit pressed for time when I made this, so when we first tasted it, it wasn't as good as when it had been refrigerated longer. Thanks so much for posting!

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Bone Man, what a great dressing!!! I halved the recipe with no problem. My kids are salad eaters and they ruled big thumbs up! We pretty much only use homemade dressing so this will definitely be one that is made often.

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I made this dressing today for tonight's salad and it was wonderful! I will never go back to bottled or Good Seasons italian. I split the finsihed recipe and added chopped green olives to one, it was very good too!

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Excellent creamy Italian salad dressing, Bone Man. I made a quarter recipe and next time I'll make half. A quarter recipe just wasn't enough-it was too popular.

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