To give away or not to give away

I don’t know about you, but have you ever seen something in your kitchen cupboard, or in fact in any other place in your house that is tucked away and you just push it from one side of the closet (or in my case – cupboard) and then you move it to the other side the next day? Only to get it out of your way so you can actually find the thing that you’re really looking for?

Well I have. And I have done this more than I want to claim. So when I came across something that I bought at a fund raiser this past weekend and realized that I bought it about 1 1/2 years ago – well that’s a lot of pushing back in forth in the cupboard don’t you think? I mean it still had the paper inside with how to wash the thing!

So I made a bold decision. I took it and gave it a good stare down (not sure why? it just seemed appropriate at the time) and then down to the basement we went. I thought it’s time to leave the comfort of my cupboard and go to someone else’s. Yup, I put my ‘I’m getting rid of clutter’ hat on and into my Good Will box it went.

But as the day went on, I just couldn’t help to think about this little mixer that was destined for someone else’s house. I mean – did I really give it a chance? It kind of cost me more money that I wanted to spend and there must be something good about it.

Now down to the basement I go and grab it out of the box and up to the kitchen I went. I take the paper out of it and think to myself that maybe this could come in handy. Yup, I’m going to give it a try. What it was is a small mixer for salad dressings with recipes on the side of the container. 

OK, I’m going to try the French Dressing one. Now most of the recipe had what I considered normal stuff in it with the exception of White Wine Vinegar. I had no clue what that was or where I could even find it. Luckily I was headed to a larger town on Saturday morning and was able to find some with the rest of the vinegar selection in the grocery store. Who would have known? Back home I go and it didn’t take long for me to mix the concoction together. Here is the recipe: 

French Dressing

1 tsp. Worcester sauce
2 Tbsp. sugar
1 garlic clove pressed
¼ cup white wine vinegar
¼ cup ketchup
¾ cup vegetable oil

Mix together and I think it tastes better the next day after it sits overnight.

Holy Smokes it is good! I never realized how much syrup the store bought kind actually has in it until I made this one. Now I don’t know if I was especially hungry the other day – but after I ate the salad with the dressing on it, I started to dip some crackers in the leftover dressing.  OK, maybe I was just hungry. But next time you’ve got some white wine vinegar in the house you should give this recipe a try.

Good thing I didn’t give away my handy dandy mixer the other day!