Рецепт BLT Pasta Salad with Ranch Dressing

by Christine Lamb

Where do salad dressing get their names? Manufacturers come up

with new flavors all the time, some consumers like

to stick to their longtime favorites in salad dressings. Such as, French,

Italian, ranch and Thousand Island.

Ranch dressing actually originated on a ranch, the Hidden

Valley Guest Ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif. According to the Hidden Valley

Web site, the owners made a dressing with herbs, spices and buttermilk in the

1950s, and the dressing was a hit with their guests. The dressing was sold as a

dry mix that you combined with buttermilk and mayonnaise or sour cream. Now,

the Hidden Valley brand appears on several varieties of bottled ranch dressing

in supermarkets. It's also a popular dip for vegetables or chips. The

"ranch" flavor that is added to chips refers to the buttermilk taste

that is associated with ranch dressing.

Italian dressing

gets its name from the seasonings found in it, basil, garlic and oregano mixed

with olive oil and wine vinegar.

French

dressing, is apparently an American invention. There are several

different recipes for French dressing.

Most of them use ketchup, oil, vinegar and paprika. A similar dressing is

called Russian, which often

has chili sauce as an ingredient.

Thousand Island

dressing was named for the Thousand Island region of upstate New York, where

the dressing originated. The region, along the St. Lawrence Seaway and Lake

Ontario, is a popular spot for fishermen and hunters and for other tourists.

The key ingredients in the dressing are mayonnaise and chili sauce, which is

made of peppers and tomatoes. The tiny chunks in the dressing are finely

chopped pickles, onions, olives and hard cooked egg.

Your family

will love this easy flavorful pasta salad.

BLT Pasta

Salad with Ranch Dressing

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2014, Christine’s Pantry. All rights reserved.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup
• uncooked elbow macaroni
• salt and
• pepper, to taste
• 1 cup iceberg
• lettuce, chopped
• 3 roma
• tomatoes, seeded and chopped
• 1/4 cup
• buttermilk ranch dressing
• 6 slices
• bacon cooked to crisp, chopped

Directions:

Cook pasta

according to package directions. Drain and run under cold water.

In a salad

bowl, add cooked pasta, salt, pepper, lettuce, tomatoes and ranch dressing, and

toss. Top with cooked bacon. Serve and enjoy!