Cooking Techniques: James Holloway Shares His Recipes For Eight Great Salad Dressings

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I’m a great advocate for making salad dressings at home. Buy quality ingredients and learn a few simple techniques, and soon your homemade dressings will be far better than any you could buy, and at half the cost.  Really.  My co-chef for the Monday night vegetarian dinners in Palo Alto, James Holloway, is the king (well, at the very least, the prince) of salad dressings. He’s ever coming up with creative ways to dress the various green, vegetable and grain salads we serve throughout the year. Here, James shares with us eight of his dressing recipes, from a simple red wine vinaigrette to a rich blue cheese caesar aioli. See his recipes after the jump…

(Photo: balsamic vinegar, red wine vinegar, white wine vinegar/ via Wikipedia)

Welcome to blog contributor, James Holloway

JAMES SHARES TWO OF HIS COOKIE RECIPES…

Chef James Holloway begins his contributions to this blog with two of this much-requested cookie recipes (after the jump).  James has a rich and long history in the natural foods movement. He’s managed and owned a health food store in Hood River, Oregon, cooked in four-star hotels, worked as a private chef and for a decade has been at times both chef and sous chef for our Gourmet Vegetarian Dinners in Palo Alto.  He is father to  three children. His eldest, Melissa, is vice president of publicity for Fox Searchlight in Los Angeles, and his younger two, Alexis and Chris, are in middle school.