Creamy buttermilky delicious dressing

As promised, here is the creamy buttermilk dressing recipe I had over the salad I served with my tomato pie recipe from the other day. The recipe is another one from smittenkitchen’s delicious collection and I’m telling you, you will not be disappointed. I am obsessed with this blog. Soon all of my daily meals are going to come directly from Deb’s inspired kitchen. It will be like Julie and Julia except very Web 2.0 as I blog about cooking through another woman’s blog.

I digress. This dressing is amazing. I didn’t serve it on the napa cabbage as smittenkitchen suggested, but went with some red mesclun lettuce, local tomatoes, avocado and red onion, since that what was in the kitchen. It was delicious. In addition to my favorite poppy seed dressing, this would be an awesome dressing to make in big batches and have on hand in the fridge.

Creamy Buttermilk Dressing (adapted directly from smittenkitchen)

1/2 cup buttermilk
2 tbs. mayonnaise
2 tbs. cider vinegar
2 tbs. minced shallot
1 tbs. sugar
3 tbs. finely chopped chives
salt and pepper

Whisk together buttermilk, mayonnaise, vinegar, shallot, sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper in a large bowl until sugar has dissolved, then whisk in chives. Serve over salad of your choice.