croutons

I've discovered how to make croutons. I had never really thought about making them myself because I figured it was too hard and buying them in a bag is easy. But a caesar salad is so much better with homemade croutons, especially when the croutons end up a tiny bit on the soft side so they soak up the dressing.

All you do is cut a french baguette into cubes, melt a few tablespoons of butter in a pan to which you mix in one tsp each of garlic powder, paprika and pepper, and add the cubes of bread to butter/seasoning mixture, stirring until they get brown and to the right amount of crispiness (or anti-crispiness as I like it). Set them aside to cool and add them to your salad.

I've also discovered a recipe for making caesar dressing, and it's so good. You can't buy a dressing that tastes as good as this recipe in a store. Find the recipe here: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/caesar-salad-dressing-recipe/index.html

Needless to say we've been having a lot of caesar salad lately and I still haven't gotten tired of it.