It’s another giveaway today! I am in a great mood because it’s Thursday, it’s beautiful and breezy, I got about four and a half hours of work done last night after 5:00, and we are going on a mini vacation to the Quebec countryside this weekend. What’s not to love?!
Let’s rewind a week, shall week? Last week I received a beautiful, heavy box in the mail from the folks at Girard’s Salad Dressings. I was excited to find a bunch of fun items inside, including four of Girard’s salad dressings: Greek Feta, White Balsamic, Light Champagne, and Old Venice Italian.
I am on a feta kick, so we went straight in for the Greek Feta to make a simple grill pan dinner on a hot night. I should also mention we have barely been grocery shopping so we were pretty excited to have new food items in the house .
We generally don’t eat dressing on salads, I usually just got for a splash of balsamic, so we started by using the dressings as a marinade for zucchini spears and shrimp.
Then I remembered why I love having ready-made dressing on hand. It makes for such a quick and simple dinner! The feta dressing was salty, tangy, and really added a pop to the shrimp and veggies. Dinner was done in 10 minutes, and cleanup was a cinch.
We’ve started using the Greek Feta on salads which we really haven’t eaten much this summer. I have been eating huge bowls of arugula, spinach, roasted red peppers, beets, and tuna in oil, topped with a little bit of the dressing, and it actually makes me excited to eat raw veggies again. Sure, it’s a little more fat than my typical balsamic, but eating salad with a little dressing is better than no salad at all, in my book. I have lunches I look forward to, and I am feeling better. Maybe Girard’s provided that little push I needed.
They also provided some recipes for the dressings, and once I am home long enough, can’t wait to try them!
Girard’s is generously giving one of my readers the same four pack of dressing I received. I would love to know your favorite recipe idea using one of the dressings, so to enter please leave it in the comments below.
I’ll choose a winner on Monday. Good luck, and thank you Girard’s!
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The Greek and Italian sound really good as marinades for steak tips that I’d make on the grill pan and serve on top of a big salad. I don’t usually use dressings for salad unless it’s something I make myself, but I do like using them for marinades.
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Greek Feta sounds tasty! I think I’d like to try using that same dressing to marinate a pork tenderloin to grill, carve it up to serve like a gyro with some additional dressing, feta, tomatoes, lettuce, onions and maybe a bit of homemade tzatziki in warmed up (on the grill as well!) pita bread!
I think marinating some ground lamb for burgers in that same dressing would be pretty tasty!
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The Greek Feta would be great as a marinade
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Those look amazing, I think this would be a great addition to beans and veggies in a meatless meal, or maybe in a pasta salad
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I’d use the Greek dressing in a pasta salad, or as a dip for kabobs!
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These dressings look soo stinking good!!! I’d like to try all and any of them!
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