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Blue Cheese Dressing
Serves 4
WHAT YOU WILL NEED
1
cup crumbled Gorgonzola, Roquefort or Stilton blue cheese,
room temperature
Rouses salt and pepper
¾
cup Rouses mayonnaise
½
cup buttermilk
½
teaspoon sugar
¼
teaspoon Rouses garlic powder
¼
teaspoon Rouses black pepper
⅛
teaspoon Rouses onion pepper
⅛
teaspoon Rouses salt
HOW TO PREP
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together ½ cup blue cheese,
mayonnaise, buttermilk, sugar and seasonings. Using a rubber
spatula, gently fold in the rest of the blue cheese.
Bluesiana Martini
Serves 4
WHAT YOU WILL NEED
12 Dellalo Blue Cheese stuffed olives
12 ounces vodka
Olive juice to taste
HOW TO PREP
Fill martini glasses with ice water; set aside.
Skewer Dellalo blue cheese stuffed olives on cocktail picks (3 per
glass). Fill a martini shaker halfway with ice, add vodka and olive
juice and shake to chill.
Pour ice water out of glasses. Strain martini into chilled glasses
and garnish with blue cheese olives.
Summertime Blues
From our Test Kitchen
Red, Bite & Blue Salad
Serves 2
WHAT YOU WILL NEED
1
pound Texas Star skirt steak, ¾ to 1-inch thick,
trimmed and halved crosswise
3
tablespoons Rouses olive oil
Rouses salt and pepper
½
head Butter lettuce, rinsed and dried
6
cherry tomatoes, sliced in half
10 -12 fresh snap beans, blanched
Blue cheese dressing
HOW TO PREP
Preheat grill to highest temperature.
Pat steak dry and season both sides with salt and pepper.
When grill is hot, brush rack with olive oil, and place steak in center. Cover and grill
steak for 3 minutes. Flip steak and continue cooking to medium rare (126 degrees),
about 3 minutes.Transfer steak to a cutting board and let rest for 5 minutes.
Thinly slice steak on the diagonal, across the grain.Arrange lettuce and steak
on a platter.Top with blue cheese dressing, cherry tomatoes and snap beans.
This salad is also great with grilled romaine lettuce. Cut heads of
romaine in half, drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
Grill cut side down until edges begin to char.
At Jesse’s Restaurant in Magnolia Springs, Alabama,
the Whiskey Steak is a 16-ounce rib-eye marinated for
24-hours in a mixture of Jack Daniel’s, Cajun seasonings,
ginger and soy. Start with an appetizer of Mississippi
sweet tea-brined quail then go for the Whiskey Steak
and a side of the Blue Cheese Gratin at this family
owned restaurant 45 minutes from Mobile.
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