{"id":7167,"date":"2011-12-05T21:20:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T03:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/?p=7167"},"modified":"2011-12-05T21:20:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T03:20:37","slug":"greek-salad-dressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/greek-salad-dressing\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek Salad Dressing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/03\/going-primal\/\">Salad has become my go-to lunch these days<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ve been trying lots of different salads, but my default salad on a busy day is a Greek Salad. \u00c2\u00a0I LOVE Greek Salad! \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s the feta, the olives, and the dressing that I love the most.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I put on my Greek salads: red and green romaine, spinach, red bell peppers, carrots, mushrooms, kalamata olives, feta cheese, grilled chicken (using the marinade from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/10\/chicken-poppy-seed-salad\/\">this recipe<\/a>), and pine nuts. \u00c2\u00a0Occasionally I add cherry tomatoes. \u00c2\u00a0Tomatoes are one of those things I&#8217;m learning to enjoy more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Greek-Salad-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7170\" title=\"Greek Salad 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Greek-Salad-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Greek-Salad-1.jpg 557w, https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Greek-Salad-1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A long time ago, my mom showed me how easy it is to make your own Greek Salad Dressing instead of purchasing a bottle of it. \u00c2\u00a0I used to just throw my dressing together with no measuring, but recently I tried the recipe below. \u00c2\u00a0It contains all the ingredients I was already using, but these measurements get the flavor just right.<\/p>\n<h4>Greek Salad Dressing<\/h4>\n<p>recipe from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1936608863\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thepicapp-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1936608863\">Make It Paleo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ingredients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Juice of 1 lemon<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil<\/li>\n<li>1 clove garlic, minced<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon dried oregano<\/li>\n<li>salt and pepper to taste<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Squeeze the juice of one lemon into a small mixing bowl. \u00c2\u00a0Whisk in olive oil, minced garlic, and oregano. \u00c2\u00a0Add salt and pepper to taste.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/greek-salad-dressing\/\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salad has become my go-to lunch these days. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ve been trying lots of different salads, but my default salad on a busy day is a Greek Salad. \u00c2\u00a0I LOVE Greek Salad! \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s the feta, the olives, and the dressing that I love the most. Here&#8217;s what I put on my Greek salads: red and green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,80,48,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicken","category-main-dish","category-primal","category-recipes","category-salad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7167"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7174,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167\/revisions\/7174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}