So last week I was making a quiche for dinner and decided to serve my
aunt helen's spinach-strawberry salad with sesame-poppyseed dressing
alongside. I was scurrying around pilaf-ing the rice, sauteeing
veggies, shredding cheese, whisking eggs, washing produce, etc. My
charming boyfriend was in the kitchen and asked if there was anything
he could do to help.

I figured - salad dressing. Measure out ingredients into the blender
jar and turn it on long enough to mix. So easy my 10 year old can do
it with no help.

Or not. He started by measuring the sugar and sesame seeds into the
bottom of the jar, right where the blade is, followed by all the
seasonings. He added the oil and vinegar last, and turned the blender
on.

The sesame seeds and sugar ground together to form a gritty tahini.
The oil and vinegar gradually worked their way into the mix and we
ended up with a thick (you could stand a spoon up in it!) cannister
full of tahini sauce. No matter how much liquid I tried to whisk in,
it was in no way a nice vinaigrette with seeds floating in it.

I don't really think twice about making something like salad
dressing........but I guess it's harder than it looks!

The dressing ended up in the trash and I made a nice container of
sesame-poppy dressing. I used a whisk =)

In article .com>,
"Jude" > wrote:

> So last week I was making a quiche for dinner and decided to serve my
> aunt helen's spinach-strawberry salad with sesame-poppyseed dressing
> alongside. I was scurrying around pilaf-ing the rice, sauteeing
> veggies, shredding cheese, whisking eggs, washing produce, etc. My
> charming boyfriend was in the kitchen and asked if there was anything
> he could do to help.
>
> I figured - salad dressing. Measure out ingredients into the blender
> jar and turn it on long enough to mix. So easy my 10 year old can do
> it with no help.
>
> Or not. He started by measuring the sugar and sesame seeds into the
> bottom of the jar, right where the blade is, followed by all the
> seasonings. He added the oil and vinegar last, and turned the blender
> on.
>
> The sesame seeds and sugar ground together to form a gritty tahini.
> The oil and vinegar gradually worked their way into the mix and we
> ended up with a thick (you could stand a spoon up in it!) cannister
> full of tahini sauce. No matter how much liquid I tried to whisk in,
> it was in no way a nice vinaigrette with seeds floating in it.
>
> I don't really think twice about making something like salad
> dressing........but I guess it's harder than it looks!
>
> The dressing ended up in the trash and I made a nice container of
> sesame-poppy dressing. I used a whisk =)

Everything is harder than it looks the first time you do it.

Stan Horwitz wrote:
> In article .com>,
> "Jude" > wrote:
>
>> My
>> charming boyfriend was in the kitchen and asked if there was anything
>> he could do to help.

>>
>> The dressing ended up in the trash and I made a nice container of
>> sesame-poppy dressing. I used a whisk =)
>
> Everything is harder than it looks the first time you do it.


Especially if when you screw it up royally, you may never be asked to
help again....

gloria p
(Hey, it's originally Barb's theory, not mine!)