Winstead Wandering

Prone to Wander

homemade buttermilk ranch dressing

by

You don’t have to settle for the gloopy bottled stuff. Homemade buttermilk ranch dressing is fresher and lighter, and it’s the perfect condiment for just about anything.

You don't have to settle for the gloopy bottled stuff. Homemade buttermilk ranch dressing is fresher and lighter, and it's the perfect condiment for just about anything.

A lot of my from-scratch recipes come about because, whenever possible, I prefer to know what goes into the food I feed my family.

This is not one of those recipes. I set out to make homemade ranch dressing because I was tired of how gross the bottled version is. I love the ranch dressing available at restaurants, but the store-bought kind just doesn’t measure up. I wanted access to restaurant style ranch at home.

I eat this ranch on everything. Clearly, it’s awesome on salads. It’s also amazing on chicken tacos, as a dip for veggies and chips, and served with chicken nuggets or French fries.

You don't have to settle for the gloopy bottled stuff. Homemade buttermilk ranch dressing is fresher and lighter, and it's the perfect condiment for just about anything.

[Read more…]

mississippi comeback sauce

by

Mississippi comeback sauce is the fun cousin of fry sauce: it’s creamy, has a surprising depth of flavor, and is perfect for fries, burgers, dogs, and more.

Mississippi comeback sauce is the fun cousin of fry sauce: it's creamy, has a surprising depth of flavor, and is perfect for fries, burgers, dogs, and more.

As a Mississippian, I feel it’s my duty to share this recipe with the world. Or, you know, with my 72 readers.

Either way, I’m putting this out there because everyone, in every state, deserves to know the beauty that is Mississippi Comeback Sauce.

This sauce is more than a sauce, really. It’s a staple, a tradition, an institution. It’s the first cousin of fry sauce, but the witty, down-to-earth cousin that everyone wants to hang out with. Sure, you might have been settling for fry sauce your whole life, thinking it was as good as you could get. I know, that used to be me.

Until I discovered comeback sauce. When that happened, there was no going back. Why would you settle for Chris Kirkpatrick when you could be hanging out with Justin Timberlake? You wouldn’t. So don’t settle for less in the condiment department, either. Make this Mississippi Comeback Sauce.

Mississippi comeback sauce is the fun cousin of fry sauce: it's creamy, has a surprising depth of flavor, and is perfect for fries, burgers, dogs, and more.

[Read more…]