- Hey dudes, I'm Hilah, and today on Hilah Cooking
we are making a classic wedge salad with homemade
blue cheese dressing, bacon crumbles,
I'm gonna add some avocado on mine.
This is a great salad, it's like a really manly salad,
but at the same time, it's like refreshing,
like a lady's hair smells.
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Okie dokie, so, wedge salad, uses everyone's
favorite lettuce, iceberg.
It's not really everyone's favorite,
it's every child's favorite, probably.
And I think this probably was invented in like,
steakhouses or something, I don't know,
so anyway, we're gonna take this head of lettuce,
and we're gonna cut it into wedges.
It rhymes, so that's how you can remember what to do.
I'm actually just gonna make two for now, so,
got that, and you wanna keep the core intact,
so that it stays in a nice little wedge shape.
And now I'm just gonna very gently rinse these
under some running water.
(water trickling)
So I just wanna shake these dry a little bit,
and then I'm gonna put each little wedge on a salad plate,
like so, and put it cut side down,
so more water can drain out.
And then I'm just gonna put these in the fridge
so they can get really nice and crispy
and they'll continue to drain and dry,
so they won't be all soggy.
That's kind of the key, cause you want your iceberg lettuce
to be like biting into an iceberg,
to just be cold and crunchy and refreshing.
So I'm gonna stick these in the fridge, be right back,
we'll make some homemade blue cheese dressing.
Okay, so, my dressing, I'm gonna start with some milk,
and sometimes wedge salads come with ranch,
but to me, blue cheese dressing is more traditional.
I don't know.
And, I've got some sour cream and some mayonnaise,
and some blue cheese, I need a tiny spatula, hang on.
Okay, so, put the sour cream in here first,
and this also, you can totally use this blue cheese dressing
recipe to make blue cheese dip, just reduce the amount
of milk that you use and it makes it thicker.
You want to whisk this together.
(gentle clinking)
Gonna add a little lemon juice,
to add a little bit of acidity,
you could use some white vinegar too.
There we go, kind of cool when you add the lemon
it thickens up immediately.
Add salt and pepper.
(loud grinding)
Probably should've used white pepper, but oh well.
And then, I'm using some blue cheese,
the one I'm using is pretty mild, but you can use Roquefort,
Gorgonzola, anything like that, just depending on how
much you like blue cheese flavor.
(gentle clinking)
Okay, so, this is ready, this will keep in the fridge
if you cover it, it'll keep a week, maybe 10 days even,
but I'm gonna go ahead and eat it now.
So I'm gonna grab my lettuce
and we'll assemble some wedge salads.
Okay, so here's my lettuce, my lechuga,
so if there's any water on the plate just dump that off
in the sink, don't need to be too crazy,
and then you set it upright like that,
and then you just want to spoon over
as much dressing as you want,
lots of chunks,
chunky blue cheese, there we go.
And I've got some bacon here that I cooked in the oven,
I made a video about that,
so I'll post a link so you can see how to cook
bacon in the oven, it's a really easy way to do it.
Lots of bacon, some cherry tomatoes, I like cherry tomatoes
cause they're a little sweeter than regular tomatoes
and it nicely offsets the foot smellingness
of the blue cheese.
Okay, then, my little addition,
since I live in California
now and they're cheap as shit,
I'm gonna add some avocado slices.
Right there, okay, and then I'm gonna add a lot more
black pepper, cause I like it.
Oh my god, I'm so excited, this is like one of my favorite
salads, it's so good, and I love that you need a fork
and a knife to eat this salad.
Of course you need a fork, you need a knife,
it's like, goes great with steak,
because you already have a knife in your hand, so.
Okay, here I go biting again.
Okay.
Mmm, mmm, mmm.
Oh I love this salad, I love this combination of flavors,
I hope that you try this, so good,
it inspired me to write this song.
♫ You take a head of lettuce and you cut it into wedges
♫ That's how you make a wedge salad
♫ That doesn't really help you
♫ If you don't know what a wedge is
♫ How do you make a wedge salad
♫ A wedge is a part of a circle
♫ It's kind of like a pyramid
♫ If you've ever seen a slice of pie
♫ You have seen a wedge and I hope you can remember it ♫
Alright, thanks for watching, don't forget to subscribe
and I'll see you next Thursday with a new cooking video.
Peace, salad lovers.
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