It’s Vidalia onion season! This homemade Vidalia Onion Dressing also makes a great spread for sandwiches and wraps–and it’s only four ingredients. It’s perfect for salad dressing or as a dipping sauce for everything from crudité to chicken fingers.
This issue also shares
- The Best Life Living Tip: Honey-do this!
- The Self-Care Technique: Homemade vs Store-Bought Salad Dressing
- Ideas and Inspiration: Legacy Voice of Integrity
Read on for more — including your new favorite all-purpose condiment!
Best Life Living Tip
Some Vidalia Onion Dressing recipes contain a cup of sugar! Yikes!
Honey is an all-natural sweetener. My best life living tip is to use honey over processed sugar when possible. This Eating Well piece dives deep into sugar vs honey. They are similar in calories, yet honey is slightly lower on the glycemic index.
Honey is higher in fructose than glucose. Fructose is sweeter than glucose, so with certain recipes, you may be able to use a smaller amount of honey than sugar without sacrificing sweetness.
Honey bees visit millions of flower blossoms in their lifetimes, pollinating plants and collecting nectar to bring back to the hive. They then make honey from the nectar and store it in the hive for nourishment. Bees make more honey than their colony needs, and beekeepers remove the excess honey and store it.
Raw honey, meaning unpasteurized, contains a wide variety of nutrients. Pasteurization is a process that destroys the yeast and some antioxidants found in honey by applying high heat. Seek out raw, organic honey for better nutritional benefits.
Self-Care Technique
What you dress your salad with should be as healthy as the salad itself. Buying salad dressing off the shelf at the grocery store may seem like a time-saver, but making it at home doesn’t require much time or effort.
This homemade version contains about 52 calories a tablespoon vs nearly double that for some of the store-bought ones! Why ruin a good-and-good-for-you salad with a store-bought dressing that contains refined sugars, inferior oils, and fake flavors when you can make a healthier version at home?
Salad dressings like this Homemade Vidalia Onion Dressing can easily be tossed together in a matter of minutes! A lot of store-bought Vidalia onion dressings are packed with sugar and hard-to-pronounce chemical preservatives. (Need another Good and Good for You™ dressing? Check out my recipe for The World’s Best Salad Dressing.)
Ideas and Inspiration
As former co-host of NBC’s TODAY for 15 years @KatieCouric is a familiar face for many of us. She’s also an award-winning journalist, New York Times best-selling author, and has continued to be a voice of integrity through @KatieCouricMedia.
KCM includes a daily newsletter, a podcast, a digital video series, and has produced several documentaries. The company works with purpose-driven brands to create premium content that addresses important social issues like gender equality, environmental sustainability, and mental health.
Very recently, Katie has been a strong voice and has shown great leadership in reporting potentially dangerous decisions to eliminate FDA testing as well as on the resignation of longtime CBS 60 Minutes producer, Bill Owens.
We need these voices of reason. KC — and KCM continue to educate and inspire. Check them out!
Good and Good for You™Living Spotlight
Sometimes it seems like there’s a lot of meanness and negativity in the world. We have to fight the negativity, and we must remember, positivity is contagious.
The Good and Good for You™ Living Shop celebrates the power of positive behavior. From organic cotton tote bags to eco-friendly all-natural candles to gratitude journals made in the USA, you can choose from a selection of cheerful, uplifting items that celebrate whole body health and wellness.
At the top of my laptop keyboard, I have a P-touch strip with this phrase reminding me to be kind. Kindness is a core value. Check it out!
Make it Count
Thanks so much for reading. If you want more info about Vidalia Onions, check out this post.
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As long as you’re doing what’s Good and Good for You™ more often than not, you’re on the right track. 🙌🏻 You can do it!
Bon Appétit Y’all!
Virginia Willis
Vidalia Onion Dressing
Ingredients
- 1 Vidalia onion, peeled and quartered
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 3/4 cup light olive oil
- Coarse kosher salt and freshly ground white pepper
Instructions
Place the onion, honey, and mustard in the bowl of a food processor fitted with the metal blade. Pulse until smooth. With the motor running, add the oil in a slow, steady stream until thick and emulsified. Taste and adjust for seasoning with salt and pepper. Store in a sealable container for up to 1 week.
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