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Store-bought salad dressing is a convenience, for sure, but is it really living up to its full potential? If your salad is on the ho-hum side of the scale, that means your dressing should be spectacular, marvelous, divine — and it can be, with just a little zhuzh from a condiment you likely already have in your fridge. Rather than adding actual pickles — which are — to the dressing (though they do add an extra punch of taste to the salad itself), you're going to add the juice the pickles are floating in. If you have a jar of these brined treats hanging out in your kitchen (after all, ), you can apply this .

Not only is the acidity — as well as the sweetness, if you're using bread and butter pickle juice, or the spiciness if you're using hot pickles — going to perk up whatever dressing you're using, the brine adds a bit of salty, savory flavor. You don't have to use the mass-produced jarred pickles from the grocery store, either; if you bought some locally made from a farmer's market or were gifted a pickle of the month subscription, those artisanal juices will really take your dressing up a notch. Other one-ingredient salad dressing upgrades There are many different individual ingredients that you can add to store-bought dressing to give a lift of flavor where you most need it.



A few that you might already have on hand includes honey, which can give savory dressing a most delectable hint of sweetness, or even pepper that has been freshly ground. Fresh pepper is so a.

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