Reviewed: Nov. 14, 2009

I have made this recipe at least six times. My husband even requests this salad. I did take the advice offered by many people who said to halve the amount of blue cheese while keeping everything else the same. It is a fantastic salad.

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Kim P.

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Reviewed: Sep. 21, 2009

The dressing was awesome. It would be good with wings or chicken nuggets too. I felt the salad was lacking something for it to work with the very strong blue cheese dressing. I think it does need, as some other reviewers suggested....dried cranberries/diced apple and candied walnuts/pecan and or bacon to help balance the dressing?

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tizzylizz

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Reviewed: Sep. 17, 2009

I also happen to love the wedge salad from my favorite steak house and this dressing is about as close as you can get to the taste of that dressing. I did change one thing since I did not have any buttermilk and just used regular milk. Buttermilk is slightly tangy so rather than use 100% blue cheese, I used half blue and half feta. The feta cheese gave it a slight tang which would have been present had I used buttermilk. Delicious and oh so easy to prepare. I cannot wait to serve it at my next dinner party...they will never believe I made it myself.

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kathymac

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Reviewed: Aug. 29, 2009

Awesome dressing recipe. Like everyone else has said, you can cut the blue cheese in the dressing and salad in half.

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Mike D

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Reviewed: Jun. 30, 2009

I really love this recipe, but I cut the blue cheese down to two 5 oz. packages, one for the dressing, and one to sprinkle on top. None of my four children liked it, but they are picky eaters and I think blue cheese is an acquired taste. As for myself and my husband, we really enjoyed it, and it would be easy to make the dressing up ahead of time and prepare the toppings to throw together at the last minute. I will definitely be serving this again, but probably to a dinner party the next time, where they will appreciate it more than my kids!

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Debbie T.

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Reviewed: Jun. 17, 2009

Fantasic & so easy. Made the salad dressing with low fat mayo and sour cream, added a little extra garlic and some worceshire. Sprinkled some very crispy homemade bacon bits when I served. YUM!! I also like to sprinkle toasted walnuts or pecans with my blue cheese salads. Will try that next time.

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SweetBasil

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Reviewed: Mar. 15, 2009

This is a great, simple salad. I love blue cheese so I didn't change the blue cheese quantity as the other reviewers. However, it is great to be able to adjust that based on your personal tastes. I added chopped pecans and dried cranberries with the other toppings. The combination of the sweet (cranberries) and bite (blue cheese) is a great combination. Add this one to the recipe box.

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Beth K.

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Reviewed: Jan. 12, 2009

I love these salads at steak houses because it's such simple flavour. You can 'cheat' a little with a good bottled bleu cheese dressing, fresh ground pepper, and the crumbled bleu cheese on top. I like mine with a large serving spoonful of fresh diced tomatos atop--the sweetness of the tomato goes well with the pungentness of the blue cheese.

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GestaltCasey

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Reviewed: Sep. 30, 2008

This is a great salad! In a hurry and don't have time to make dressing? Simply docter up bottled blue cheese dressing. I add just a bit of red wine vinegar, milk, sugar and black pepper and it tastes pretty much the same as starting from scratch. Also,as others suggested, real bacon bits really add to it. My kids love this recipe.

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maddiematters

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Reviewed: Aug. 10, 2008

This was VERY good...they serve this at one of my favorite restaraunts and I was so glad to find the recipe...only thing I did different was to also add some crumbled bacon on top of it!

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Shoppingbaby

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Reviewed: Jun. 26, 2008

The dressing was wonderful--except for my very spicy garlic (but that was my fault). I added glazed walnuts and that mixed well with the blue cheese. Will do again but will probably half the recipe (makes a little too much for my family to use up).

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JENNWHEELER

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Reviewed: May 4, 2008

I love this dressing. But like the other reviewer, that is alot of blue cheese. I just added about 1/4 cup(eyeballed it), put it all in a blender for a few pulses, and I have to say, it is the best I've tasted. Even my kids love it, and ask for it all the time. Now I keep blue cheese in stock. It is just ever so slightly sweet when you first taste it, then you get the nice tang following that, with the nice strong flavor of the cheese. I have never cared for bottled dressing of any kind, I have always liked making my own because I like to be able to control the salt and sugar and it just is always nice and fresh. I wonder if the recipe might have been a typo or something. Maybe it meant to be a half a cup instead. This is the only reason as to why I had to give it a 4 star. I also like adding to it chopped candied walnuts, chopped bacon, and chopped granny smith apples. It just doesn't get any better.

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Reviewed: Nov. 28, 2007

This dressing was wonderful with half of the blue cheese--both in the dressing and on top of the salads (I think it would have been way too over-powering with all of the cheese in and on top of the salad!). I substituted whole milk b/c I didn't have any buttermilk and the dressing was definitely elegant and delicious!

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