Kitchen Idea: Celery Seed Salad Dressing

This recipe is the reason I choose to eat salads.  It is especially good on spinach salads or maybe I just like spinach better than lettuce because it is better for me and if I'm going to have a salad, I might as well go for the healthy stuff. 

This is from my mom's kitchen with a few minor variations that I have added.

Celery Seed Dressing

1 cup vegetable oil

2/3 cup white sugar

¼ cup white vinegar

¼ cup cider vinegar

3 tablespoons chopped onion

1 tablespoon paprika

1 tablespoon celery seed

1 ½ teaspoon garlic salt

1 ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes

½ teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon dry mustard

Mix all ingredients in a bowl. Store in jar and refrigerate.

I believe the instructions originally called for the ingredients to be blended using a food processor, since I don't have one of those I go the old fashion route of stirring by hand (my arm still is sore from when I hand churned the muffin batter last year).  I also have come to double the recipe because I find that I eat more salads when the dressing is already made, one less excuse.  Also, the red pepper flakes are just my alteration to give it a tiny bit of spice, I've also used fresh ground black pepper but didn't like it as much.