Salad - Dressings and Cheese Spread Similar to Northwoods

This is in response to a request for Salad/Dressing and Cheese Spread recipes similar to Northwoods Inn.
Gary/Louisville


A Favorite Salad and Dressing ---The house salad from Northwoods Inn of California of shredded cabbage and creamy blue cheese dressing. Blue Cheese Buttermilk Creamy Dressing Recipe
From Peggy Trowbridge,Your Guide to Home Cooking.
This recipe is similar to one used at California's North Woods Inn restaurant chain. Try this quick and easy recipe and you'll never go back to bottled bleu cheese dressing.
· 1 cup buttermilk
· 1 cup sour cream or nonfat sour cream
· 3 cloves garlic
· 1/8 tsp sugar
· 1 tablespoon Hungarian sweet paprika
· 1 teaspoon salt
· 3 tablespoons blue cheese
PREPARATION:
In a food processor or heavy-duty blender, combine buttermilk, sour cream, garlic, sugar, paprika, and salt. Blend until smooth. Add blue cheese, and pulse quickly once or twice. Do not blend. You want small chunks of blue cheese.

Refrigerate 4 hours or more before serving to let flavors blend.

Yield: About 1-1/3 cups

"THIS WAS THE BEST CHEESEBREAD THAT I HAVE EVER TASTED"
Title: Clearman'S Northwoods Inn - Cheese Spread
Ingredients

1/2 ts dry mustard
1/2 ts celery salt
2 ts garlic salt
3 tb plus 2 teaspoons fresh lemon
- juice
2 ts tabasco
1 ts paprika
1 lb margarine or butter
3/4 lb cheddar cheese - grated fine
3 oz romano cheese

Instructions

Mix with electric mixer until well blended. Refrigerate

If anyone's interested in Northwoods Inn Red Cabbage Salad, this is a knock-off recipe the LA Times printed years ago. Like the butter in the cheese spread, this has A LOT of salt. I cut back some when I make it. I have to admit it's pretty darn good.

Could Be The Northwoods Inn Red Cabbage Salad

1/2 cup plus 2 T. red wine vinegar
3 T. sugar
3 tsp. kosher salt
2 tsp. seasoned salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1/4 tsp. onion powder
1/2 cup vegetable oil

1 head red cabbage, coarsely shredded

Whisk together vinegar, sugar, salt, pepper, and onion powder until sugar and salt are completely dissolved. Whisk in oil. Dressing can be made ahead and stored in fridge. Bring to room temp before using. Pour over cabbage, toss well and let sit 10-15 minutes. Toss again and serve.

Do you have the recipe for the red cabbage slaw or salad from the Northwoods Inn? I hope so! — Pat Foss, Hesperia

A. Here’s a recipe given to me by a friend many years back. I don’t know if it’s the original, but I think it’s close!

Northwoods Style Cabbage Salad

2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

3 tablespoons granulated sugar

1 tablespoon crushed beef boullion powder

Salt and pepper to taste

1?2 cup wine vinegar

1?2 cup cider vinegar

1 cup oil

2 teaspoons pureed garlic

1?4 cup grated sweet red bell pepper

1 small onion, finely diced

1?2 head red cabbage, shredded

• In a bowl, mix together lemon juice, sugar, bouillon, salt, pepper, vinegars and oil. Stir in pureed garlic, red pepper and diced onion. Pour mixture over the shredded cabbage and stir well.

• Let stand in the refrigerator overnight to blend flavors. Yield: Serves 8