Posts Tagged With: green goddess

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INGREDIENTS

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4 anchovies*

2 tablespoons lemon juice

¾ cup mayonnaise

½ cup sour cream

2 tablespoons diced fresh chives

½ tablespoon fresh dill

2 garlic cloves

⅔ cup fresh parsley

¼ teaspoon pepper

¼ teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon fresh tarragon

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* = 2 teaspoons anchovy paste or ½ the anchovy bits in a 2-ounce can.

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SPECIAL UTENSIL

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food processor or blender

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PREPARATION

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Add all ingredients to food processor. Blend until smooth. Use now. Transfer unused portion to Mason jar. Store in refrigerator. Keeps for 1 week.

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TIDBITS

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1) Nearly all dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago (66 mya) when a bloody minded comet slammed into the Earth. The Dinosaur Greeting Card company died out as well. Both are mourned. Only a small percentage of dinosaurs survived this mass extinction. Those that did evolved into birds. But they never lost their dinosaurial–if that is indeed a word–traits. So a condor is a bird. An eagle is a bird. The pigeon that craps on your car is a dinosaur.

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2) The two-ounce hummingbird is a dinosaur. As of press time, the largest dinosaur, amphicoelias fragillimus weighed 100 to 150 tons. That’s quite a weight variance. Perhaps Amphi Fragilli alternated between dieting and binge eating.

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3) Anyway, gigantic mobile plants such as: estranikon (tarragon), anitho (dill) and maintanos (parsley) walked the land after the comet crash. Alas, for this vibrant, burgeoning genus, kinita votana, dinosaur birds and mammals stalked the active plants as an abundant source of vitamin-rich food.

 Noting that their mobility garnered the attention of their predators, mobile plants evolved into stationary and much smaller plants, like the ones we grow or buy at the store. This dish, Green Goddess Dressing honors the survival of these herbs.