Sauce Making #1: Blu Cheese

So, as some of you know, I am a rather accomplished cook in my own right, one of the things i love to make is sauces, now i do have a barbecue sauce that some of my readers have tried and swear to be the best they've ever had, but even more, each of them thats tried it, has loved my blu cheese dressing, which is something that truly came from the food gods.

So I figured, just for fun, I would show you how i make it, not giving away all of my secrets of it though, cuz, you know, trade secrets, and in part 2, i would show you have i create the hottest salsa ever...

Anyway on with this....

 

 This is everything you will need for making my blu cheese dressing, though you can add to it ifyou like, sometimes i add real chopped up bacon or chives, or something both for that extra kick over the goalpost.

Mix the ranch dressing and the sour cream and the powdered ranch together in a big metal bowl, cuz, thats just how the professionals role yo.

Add in the hand chopped four wedges of blu cheese, yes, it has to be four wedges, and yes, it has to be as finely hand chopped as you can get it, otherwise it won't come out right, because when you do it in a food chopper or processor, it doesn't work the same and just becomes lumps of blu cheese like gunk, so, hand chopped is important, it should take you about 15 or so minutes to get it right, you want as much as you can.

It should look like this when you're done mixing everything together, make sure you take a good five to 10 minutes to mix it, so its properly combined and everything you could probably do it for less, and maybe use a hand mixer, but, I rather the old fashioned way, there is something magical about doing things by hand when you can.

Now onto the fun part....

When filling the jars, its important to do so on a level surface, and its important to use a filler funnel like you see in the picture, just like when you put home made jams and jellies and preserves in a jar, you need as much open space as possible, I tend to make enough to fill 5 to 6 full jars of blu cheese dressing and atleast one half jar, be very careful when doing this, because, it can become very messy,

and in the end, you should have of bottles that look something like this, yummy yummy in your tummy blu cheese dressing, that is good on just about everything. 

So thats how you make that, i'll be back in a minute with something else!!!

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Chris