Back in the day, my favorite commercially bottled salad dressing was Catalina. But they reformulated it to be sweeter (and full of HFCS, but it was the extra sweetness that turned me off) in the 1990s or maybe it was the late 1980s. Right now, it is Annie's Balsamic Vinaigrette. Tart, creamy, not too sweet. No ingredient crud. I intensely dislike sweet salad dressings. When I want sugar, I'll have a dessert. If I want my salad with some level of sweetness, I'll add actual fruit into the salad itself. For a regular vinaigrette, home-made: Juice of 1/2 lemon Add rice vinegar to make 50 mL / 1.7 fluid ounces total volume atop the lemon juice (I used one of those Ball half-pint canning jars, and just added everything directly to that. The metric side of the scale on the jar was more convenient to me.) 1.5 teaspoon Dijon mustard 75 mL / 2.5 fluid ounces of oil. I recommend a 1:1 mixture (approximately 37.5 L/1.25 ounces of each) extra virgin olive oil to avocado oil. See below, and no, I don’t expect this to be measured out Exactly! Two teaspoons Penzy’s Herbes de Provence dried herbal concoction. 1/8 teaspoon salt, or to taste 1/4 teaspoon cracked pepper (approximate) I put it in that Ball canning jar, cap, and shake the devil out of it.

Linda, you can use Sriracha for the chili sauce, but you will not need very much of it, probably no more than half a teaspoon. To make up for the chili flavor, you can add chili powder (if it is a good brand and pure chili powder). If you have Ancho chili powder, that would be good to use, and you could just mix it with a bit of water. If you use chipotles in adobo sauce, you will be making an adobo dressing, which is a bit intense for a crab salad. I do recommend that you buy a canned chili or enchilada sauce - La Victoria is a good brand and is the correct mildness for this recipe. Sharon, it is fine to use a tomato based chili sauce in this recipe, but I give it a different name when it has tomatoes in it, although I can't remember what that is. I do make it both ways, but I think it is good to start with the pure chili sauce to be able to appreciate the subtle flavor of the mild chilies. Lars

This one seems to 'wow' everyone. How I trapped DH!!! LITE ITALIAN DRESSING 1/4 C red wine vinegar 1/2 C water 3 T olive oil 1 pkg. REGULAR Good Seasons Italian dressing 1 clove garlic Then, I discovered this by accident - When dressing the salad with the above dressing, splash in a goodly amount of WishBone Balsamic Italian vinaigrette (to taste). DH is still eating salad!

If I use a bottle, then usually Kraft Golden Italian. I like their french too. We used to love the Creamy Cucumber but they changed it somehow and now it makes me gag. Same with Ranch. I don't know what ingredient does it, maybe the fake buttermilk powder or something? Same flavour is in sour cream and onion chips. BLARG! I like to mix balsamic vinegar, and olive oil then add some dijon mustard. It doesn't look pretty, but tastes wonderful. Expecially on salads with strong greens (like frizee, endive, etc.). Don't forget the salt and pepper! Dances.