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A few months ago we posted about Jamie Oliver’s terrific new book, Jamie’s Food Revolution. We just became aware that Jamie is now following through with the theme of the book – helping people learn to cook/promoting healthy food for children, by creating a petition that he will present to the White House. You can help spread this mission by signing the petition : and please pass it along to your friends.

Keeping with Jamie’s initiative to help people create easy, fresh meals at home, we have included some of his basic “Jam Jar” salad dressings which will help make eating more salads and veggies a pleasure. It is surprising to learn just how easy it is to make salad dressing. There is no need to ever buy processed salad dressing again. Remember not only will you save money by making your own, the bottled dressings are filled with sugars, and all types of additives.

“Jam Jar Dressings”

French dressing
Peel and finely chop ¼ of a clove of garlic • Put the garlic, 1 teaspoon of Dijon mustard, 2 tablespoons of white or red wine vinegar, and 6 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil into a jam jar with a pinch of sea salt and freshly ground black pepper • Put the lid on the jar and shake well

Yogurt dressing
Put 1/3 cup of natural yogurt, 2 tablespoons of white or red wine vinegar, and 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil into a jam jar with a pinch of sea salt and freshly ground black pepper • Put the lid on the jar and shake well

Balsamic dressing
Put 6 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil and 2 tablespoons of balsamic vinegar into a jam jar with a pinch of sea salt and freshly ground black pepper • Put the lid on the jar and shake well

Recipes from JAMIE’S FOOD REVOLUTION (Hyperion; October 2009)