{"id":26793,"date":"2015-07-17T12:30:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T16:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=26793"},"modified":"2015-07-16T22:48:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T02:48:06","slug":"cobb-salad-with-homemade-bleu-cheese-dressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/17\/cobb-salad-with-homemade-bleu-cheese-dressing\/","title":{"rendered":"Cobb Salad with Homemade Bleu Cheese Dressing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Cobb-Salad-with-Homemade-Bleu-Cheese-Dressing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26795\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Cobb-Salad-with-Homemade-Bleu-Cheese-Dressing-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cobb Salad with Homemade Bleu Cheese Dressing\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Cobb-Salad-with-Homemade-Bleu-Cheese-Dressing-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Cobb-Salad-with-Homemade-Bleu-Cheese-Dressing-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Cobb-Salad-with-Homemade-Bleu-Cheese-Dressing-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think you guys know how much I love a big salad for dinner. \u00a0One of my favorites is this <strong>Cobb Salad with Homemade Bleu Cheese Dressing<\/strong>, because it&#8217;s got so many different components. \u00a0So satisfying!<\/p>\n<p>Of course you can use store-bought dressing, but I decided to make my own. \u00a0You can really control how salty, how creamy, how peppery it is when you make it yourself &#8211; plus there are no binders, stabilizers, thickeners, et cetera like there are in bottled dressing. \u00a0(How else do you think they make that stuff shelf-stable?) \u00a0This is a basic recipe; feel free to jazz it up with a little lemon juice, hot sauce, or Worcestershire sauce to take it to the next level. \u00a0You can also add more veggies to the salad or change up the protein. \u00a0Have at it!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Cobb Salad with Homemade Bleu Cheese Dressing<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ingredients (for 2 servings):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1\/2 cup crumbled bleu cheese or gorgonzola<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup mayonnaise<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup plain yogurt<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup whole milk<\/li>\n<li>lots of ground pepper<\/li>\n<li>washed salad greens, any kind<\/li>\n<li>2 hardboiled eggs, sliced<\/li>\n<li>1 avocado, diced<\/li>\n<li>1 large chicken breast (or use two chicken thighs), cooked and diced<\/li>\n<li>2 (or more!) slices bacon, cooked crisp<\/li>\n<li>sliced or cherry tomatoes (would be great, but I don&#8217;t like raw tomatoes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Directions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In a mixing bowl, stir together the bleu cheese, mayo, yogurt, and milk. \u00a0Grind in lots of black pepper. \u00a0Let chill in the fridge until you are ready to eat. \u00a0(Do it a day before and get an even better-tasting dressing!)<\/li>\n<li>In two large salad bowls, divide the washed salad greens. \u00a0Into each bowl, add a sliced egg, half of the avocado, the diced chicken, and some bacon crumbles. \u00a0Drizzle with dressing and serve.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Explore, experiment, enjoy!<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Dana<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To view even more of Dana\u2019s unique recipe, you can visit her at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/frugalgirlmet.blogspot.com\/\">Frugal Girlmet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think you guys know how much I love a big salad for dinner. \u00a0One of my favorites is this Cobb Salad with Homemade Bleu Cheese Dressing, because it&#8217;s got so many different components. \u00a0So satisfying! Of course you can use store-bought dressing, but I decided to make my own. \u00a0You can really control how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":26795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[3038,9166,2969,279,2485,398,1287,425,9165,926],"class_list":["post-26793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at-home-with-gch","tag-at-home-w-gch","tag-bleu-cheese","tag-cheese-recipes","tag-dana-kim","tag-dinner-recipes","tag-frugal-girlmet","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-salad-dressing","tag-salad-recipes","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Cobb-Salad-with-Homemade-Bleu-Cheese-Dressing.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-6Y9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26793"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26798,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26793\/revisions\/26798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}