Ranch Dressing

1/2 cup dried parsley
2 tsp dried dill weed (or more to taste)
8 tsp onion powder
8 tsp salt (optional) I don't use the salt at all!
4 tsp garlic powder (I add more)
2 tsp ground pepper (white or black pepper works well)
8 tsp dried onion flakes

Mix one-two Tablespoon(s) of dried mix with 1 cup sour(8oz.) cream for dip or 1 cup mayo and enough milk to make it smooth (regular or buttermilk will work). You can also use some of the sour cream dip with some milk to make dressing too...Also half sour cream (4-8 oz) and half Mayo makes a good dip! Then if you need a dressing add milk to make it the consistancy yo want!

When using fresh herbs you may need to crush them and use less than above, but a blend of the two types would work well.

I also like to use freeze dried herbs and I like the Litehouse Salad blend that I have found at Farm Fresh! I've thrown it into this mixture to make it go further, and it just brings the whole mixture to a whole different flavor level..I .Like it as is without the salt to me is good, but add the freeze dried herbs and wow As little as a Tablespoon of the freeze dried herbs to the rest of the mixture. Strange as it may seem!

The dried and freeze dried together keeps really well in a sealed container on the counter I've never done fresh, but of course your mixing it all and puting it in the frig so it's going to keep! I do know that you will need three times the amount of fresh stuff than the dried because the dried is more powerful or concentrated!

1 tablespoon of fresh oregano, you need only 1 teaspoon of dried, since 3 teaspoons equal 1 tablespoon

So if you want to do a mix of fresh and dried I bet for dill and parsley that would taste amazing! Tinker with it and let me know what ya think!

Let me put it this way! I've had a really difficult time eating anything out of a bottle with maybe the exception of Ken's Steakhouse, but even my husband doesn't want Ranch from anywhere but home!

And he's asking me to try making other dressing too...So we shall see...as I keep testing stuff!