Ever since I moved from California to Switzerland in 1991, people
occasionally ask, “Is there anything you miss?” Well,
there is the salad dressing! One of my favourite
culinary concoctions in California was Marie's® Blue Cheese salad
dressing. It is now available throughout the U.S., but not in Europe,
and I have found no vaguely comparable product on the market here.
So, it's time to roll up our sleeves and engage in a little high-fat,
high-calorie, thick and creamy reverse engineering! This document
starts with the list of ingredients in the original and iteratively
develops a simple to prepare substitute which I find perfectly
satisfactory. Readers with well-calibrated palates and access to the
commercial goop for comparison taste-testing are invited to further
tweak this Open Sauce recipe and share their discoveries.
New September 2007 update presents results from comparison
tasting with the Real Thing and provides two new recipes which attempt
to converge upon the flavour of the original.