Pineapple Salad Dressing for One

This salad dressing is a little sweet, so when you’d really rather have dessert than a salad, you’ll find that you’ve straddled the line without breaking any rules!

¼ cup fresh pineapple chunks

3 sections of mandarin orange (clementines/tangerines)

½ TBLSP chopped fresh parsley or ½ teaspoon dried

½ TBLSP fresh lemon or lime juice

½ TBLSP agave nectar

¾ teaspoon vegetable oil (canola or something light)

Pinch salt

Pinch freshly ground black pepper 

1. Whirl the ingredients together in a blender or food processor until they’re completely pureed.

If you don’t need all of it, it saves nicely in the fridge for a day or two.

It’s especially good over spinach salad, but it would be good over fried tofu, rice, or a lone halved avocado. The salad shown here is mixed lettuces, carrots, onions, orange slices, teriyaki tofu, avocado, diced dried apricots, and pistachios. Seen below is Savory Corn Fritters, coming soon! 

Japanese Carrot and Ginger Salad Dressing for One

I’ve never been much of a fan of iceberg lettuce unless you put it underneath that fabulous Japanese salad dressing. So when a neighbor gave me a big sack of already chopped salad that was mostly iceberg, I had to play with my food.

¼ large carrot, peeled and chopped

¼ cup vegan mayonnaise

½ TBLSP ground ginger

½ TBLSP soy sauce

½ TBLSP granulated sugar

1. In a food processor or blender, combine carrot, mayonnaise, ginger, soy sauce, and sugar.
2. Blend until it’s fairly smooth. I like a few chunks, but you do it how you like it.

Serve on a mostly iceberg lettuce salad with cabbage, carrot, and green onion for a restaurant-style salad.

This recipe could easily double or triple if you're not dining alone. 

I like this elegant dressing and salad with a roll of avocado sushi and some miso soup, but it would certainly be nice on a more elaborate salad and served as a main course. Like this:

Variations:

• Use ½ inch or so of freshly grated ginger instead of ground.
• Sprinkle in a few grains (and I mean just a few grains) of wasabi powder. It will mix with the sugar and be SUPER hot, so really: Go easy.