{"id":1013,"date":"2025-03-14T19:55:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T11:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/the-2-ingredient-dressing-that-would-make-a-cardboard-box-taste-good\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T19:55:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T11:55:46","slug":"the-2-ingredient-dressing-that-would-make-a-cardboard-box-taste-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/the-2-ingredient-dressing-that-would-make-a-cardboard-box-taste-good\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2-Ingredient Dressing That Would \u201cMake a Cardboard Box Taste Good&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplyrecipes.com\/thmb\/kEQqkEjMoyY5olDE1q0AvlhHorQ=\/3143x2095\/Simply-Recipes-2-Ingredient-Dressing-LEAD-4-83d670b8dd974f85b24f5c0dc97ceab0.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-page_1-0\" data-sc-sticky-offset=\"135\" data-sc-ad-label-height=\"11\" data-sc-ad-track-spacing=\"100\" data-sc-min-track-height=\"250\" data-sc-max-track-height=\"600\" data-sc-breakpoint=\"50em\" data-sc-load-immediate=\"5\" data-sc-content-positions=\"[1, 1, 1, 1250, 1, 1, 1, 1]\" data-bind-scroll-on-start=\"true\">\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block lifestyle-sc-block-callout mntl-sc-block-callout mntl-block theme-tip text-passage\" data-tracking-id=\"mntl-sc-block-callout\" data-tracking-container=\"true\">\n<h3 id=\"mntl-sc-block-callout-heading_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block-callout-heading mntl-text-block\">Key Takeaways<\/h3>\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block-callout-body_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block-callout-body mntl-text-block text-passage\">\n<ul>\n<li>This dressing uses just two main ingredients: sour cream and jarred pepperoncini (plus a little splash of brine!).<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s creamy, rich, tangy, and zesty all at once.<\/li>\n<li>Use it not only for salads, but for roasted vegetables, sandwiches, grilled chicken, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Every personality test I&#8217;ve taken pinpoints that I&#8217;m an orderly and rule-abiding person who&#8217;s a consummate organizer and prefers predictability and structure. &#8220;Just have fun!&#8221; and &#8220;Just go with it!&#8221; are the two most paralyzing things anyone can say to me.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> That&#8217;s why I was highly skeptical when I saw Emma Laperruque&#8217;s Zingy Sour Cream recipe in her latest cookbook, <em>Little Big Recipes<\/em>. It&#8217;s a two-ingredient creamy dressing that breaks all the salad dressing rules.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> &#8220;Salad dressing doesn&#8217;t need more than two ingredients. And I&#8217;m not talking about oil and vinegar,&#8221; she says. To that I replied, <em>impossible!<\/em> You don&#8217;t need to go to culinary school to know that the basic building blocks of any dressing include oil and vinegar. But I was so wrong.\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"mntl-sc-block_8-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block lifestyle-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme no-theme figure-landscape figure-high-res\"><figcaption id=\"mntl-figure-caption_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 figure-article-caption\"> <span class=\"figure-article-caption-owner\"><\/p>\n<p>Simply Recipes \/ Myo Quinn<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_9-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block lifestyle-sc-block-callout mntl-sc-block-callout mntl-block theme-tip text-passage\" data-tracking-id=\"mntl-sc-block-callout\" data-tracking-container=\"true\">\n<h3 id=\"mntl-sc-block-callout-heading_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block-callout-heading mntl-text-block\">Emma&#8217;s 2-Ingredient Sour Cream Dressing<\/h3>\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block-callout-body_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block-callout-body mntl-text-block text-passage\">\n<p>Measure <strong>1\/4 cup sour cream<\/strong> into a small bowl and stir in<strong> a tablespoon of finely minced pepperoncini<\/strong> and a <strong>splash of its brine<\/strong>. Stir until combined, taste, and add salt or black pepper if needed.<\/p>\n<p><em>Adapted from Big Little Recipes by Emma Laperruque<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_10-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Emma&#8217;s faff-less dressing calls for a 1\/4 cup of sour cream combined with a tablespoon of finely minced jarred pepperoncini, a healthy splash of its brine, and salt to taste. (I&#8217;m a black pepper fiend, so I always add a few grinds.) These are astute ingredients that are in essence the two key components of a dressing: there&#8217;s vinegar in the brine and plenty of fat (or oil) in the sour cream.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_12-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> The only way to describe this dressing is <em>whoaaa!<\/em> Emma aptly describes it as so delicious that it &#8220;could make a cardboard box taste good.&#8221; It&#8217;s creamy and bright, as all salad dressings should be, and with pops of flavor from both the peppers and the pickling liquid.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_14-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> And since both ingredients are stable, you can make a giant batch and keep it in the fridge all week, using it on any salad, any crudit\u00e9-like snack such as carrot, celery, or bell pepper sticks, on roasted vegetables, sandwiches, chicken (my go-to, as you can see in the image above), and as Emma recommends in the cookbook, pizza.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_16-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> <strong>BUY THE COOKBOOK<\/strong>: <em>Big Little Recipes<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"mntl-sc-block_18-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block lifestyle-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme no-theme figure-landscape figure-high-res\"><figcaption id=\"mntl-figure-caption_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 figure-article-caption\"> <span class=\"figure-article-caption-owner\"><\/p>\n<p>Simply Recipes \/ Myo Quinn<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>#2Ingredient #Dressing #Cardboard #Box #Taste #Good<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Takeaways This dressing uses just two main ingredients: sour cream and jarred pepperoncini (plus a little splash of brine!). It&#8217;s creamy, rich, tangy, and zesty all at once. Use it not only for salads, but for roasted vegetables, sandwiches, grilled chicken, and more. Every personality test I&#8217;ve taken pinpoints that I&#8217;m an orderly and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[413,821,820,79,313,398],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinner","tag-2ingredient","tag-box","tag-cardboard","tag-dressing","tag-good","tag-taste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}