I remember back in the seventies going to a fine restaurant and the waiter would prepare the Caesar Salad at the table. The waiter would bring out a big wooden salad bowl and run some olive oil over the wood and then rub freshly garlic into the wooden bowl. Then came the rest of the ingredients,including a raw egg.
Well, times have changed and most of us are not too keen on consuming raw eggs in our salads. That is what is wonderful about this recipe. It contains all the basic ingredients that went into that salad of years gone by, but uses a commercial mayonnaise instead of the raw egg. The result is fabulous!
Caesar Salad
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup Miracle Whip or other kind of mayonnaise
- 1 - 2 anchovy fillets
- 3 Tbsp freshly grated Parmesan
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- 1 Tbsp water
- 2 Tsp red wine vinegar
- 1/2 to 1 Small garlic clove (grated or finely chopped)
- 1/8 Tsp Tabasco or other hot sauce
- 1/4 Tsp Worcestershire sauce
- freshly ground pepper
- 1 head Romaine lettuce (thick vein in leaves, pared down, torn into bite-sized pieces, thoroughly washed, spun dry and wicked in a clean tea towel and crisped in the fridge for at least 10 minutes.)