Ranch Dressing
- 1 cup mayo
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/4 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/2 teaspoon parsley dried (1/2 tablespoon fresh)
- 1/2 teaspoon chives dried (1/2 tablespoon fresh)
- 1/2 teaspoon dill dried (1/2 tablespoon fresh)
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- add buttermilk to thin
Mix everything together and let it marry in the fridge for at least several hours.
Ranch dressing has always been my favorite. The rest of my bunch prefers balsamic vinegar or something similar. The girls both make a vinegar dressing that is right tasty, but I prefer ranch.
The common dressing is popular with many kids in our area. I’ve noticed for years at church functions children will ask for a squirt of ranch if the bottle is on the counter even if they don’t use it on salad. They dip pizza, fries, chips, or whatever else they are eating in ranch dressing before eating.
I’m about as bad as the kids. I like to dip my french fries (both sweet and arsh) in ranch as much as I like dipping them in ketchup.
Tipper
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A couple of our local restaurants make homemade ranch dressing and it’s always so good. I’ve been wanting to make homemade myself but hadn’t looked for a recipe yet. Now I know which one I’ll use ☺️
The cornbread salad looks amazing but I’m
Not a fan of ranch dressing. Guess I’m in the minority!
Oooohh that sounds good! I usually just buy hidden valley in a bottle but I think I’ll whip up a big batch of this instead next time I need it. Thanks Tipper. Hope everyone is well in the holler!
Hi Tipper and Acorns. I’m a Thousand Island Fan for my salads and I mix in some Ken’s Raspberry Vinegarette just before I toss the salad. We use Ranch for dipping chicken tenders and potato wedges. I love homemade Comeback Sauce on burgers, onion rings, hotdogs and fries. For fish I like a mix of tartar sauce and thousand island dressing. I’ll be trying your Ranch recipe soon. I like the idea of mixing up just what I will use for a meal. Happy eating. I love y’all.
All of my grandchildren love ranch dressing. They all like Hidden Valley Ranch brand the best. One of them loves sour cream mixed with ranch powder. This homemade recipe sounds way more healthy, and I am going to try it out on all of them. I have to keep ranch for their pizza, fries, raw veggies and salads. My favorite is hot bbq chicken wings dipped in it! And Allie, I loved the poem…it sounds like my growing up years.
Looking forward to trying this recipe! Store bought Ranch has MSG and too many other chemicals in it.
Thanks for sharing your recipe with us.
Tipper, I can’t wait to try this Ranch dressing recipe! I am thinking about some delicious Arsh potato wedges a little later this week with this dressing to dip. I grew up and have heard Arsh potatoes all my life. Meg, please take it easy, and keep us posted on how you and baby are doing. Keeping the two of you in prayers!
Ranch on a baked potato is so, so good too! Thank you for the recipe!
I like Ranch Dressing too but I only use about a tablespoon on a big bowl of salad. Your recipe would last me about three months if it would last that long. I’ve tried the mix packets from the store but they taste like eating salt straight from the box. I bought a three pack of it, tasted it and threw it all in the trash.
I have an ideal though. What if I mix the dry ingredients in your recipe and add it a teaspoon at a time to the fresh ones? I drink buttermilk and keep it all the time. I keep mayonnaise too although it usually goes bad before I can use it all up. If I buy mayonnaise and sour cream in a squeeze bottle, squeeze out just enough and add a little buttermilk when I plan to eat a salad, dip out a teaspoon of the mix stir it all together and have a fresher, healthier dressing.
I think I will buy some dried parsley, dill and sour cream next time I go to the store and give it a try like that. I’ll try to keep you informed if you are interested.
My mother always warned me against playing with my food but here I am, almost 76 years old, and still doing it.
Yes please tell us how it works out!
Tipper, my husband turned me on to crumbling leftover cornbread into our eggs before scrambling, like his mom did. DELICIOUS! I’m anxious to try your cornbread salad!
Papaw, that sounds like a great idea! Sometimes cooking for just myself I don’t spend the time or want to waste, so I skip it. Your idea would allow for fresh dressing every time!
Kim in WC,IL
Thank you for the recipe Tipper ! And thank you for the poem / good memories Allie ! Love & prayers for all !
Yum! Ranch Dressing! My favorite! In all my years of eating Ranch Dressing I never thought once to make my own!! Thank you for sharing the recipe, Tipper. It goes with pretty much anything one dips things into. 🙂 I loved the poem too, from Allie. Life certainly has changed. They call it ‘progress’ but I am not fully convinced.
I’d say having the fresh ingredients in homemade will always be more flavorful than bottled. Allie’s post about 2 TV channels reminds me again of Channels 6 and 10 out of Knoxville. That’s all anyone could get on antennas in southeastern KY. Folks didn’t know what was happening in Lexington, Louisville or Frankfort but knew about Knoxville and Knox County. Simpler times indeed.
I got really frustrated while watching a comedian who was making jokes about overweight Kentuckians who love ranch dressing and buffet-style restaurants. It seems ranch dressing is more popular in Kentucky, even among fit and thin residents, than in some other states I have visited. My favorite dressing is Ken’s Chunky Blue Cheese, which is loaded with fat and calories- easily burned off while working outside. That could be all new material for the comedian’s next show.
We like ranch here too! My olderst daughter is the only one who doesn’t like it. Often my little kids eat the ranch by itself and then the veggies I thought they would dip in it. I use your recipe, but mine has sour cream instead of buttermilk. It is pretty thick. Rita mentioned homemade mayo, which I make myself, but I don’t love how mine tastes. Would anybody want to share their recipe for homemade mayo. I would like mine to taste like store bought, but I haven’t been able to acheive that yet.
Thank you all for the prayers! Praying for everyone too, Meg
I like ranch with chicken strips, and bleu cheese with Buffalo wings. But you could swap them, and I wouldn’t be too unhappy!
The meme was all over the place during the FIFA World Cup back in June that the European tourists were going to buy up all the ranch dressing and bring it back home since they either can’t get it or else the ersatz version they have is no good. There were all sorts of Americans suggesting that those tourists, once back home, could reverse-engineer ranch dressing to find out just how “ranchy” (NOT “raunchy”!) they like it by following a recipe like yours. My suspicion is that the Americans were trying to keep the Europeans from ordering all the ranch dressing over Amazon… 😉
Thank you for the recipe, Tipper! I always like to use healthier/homemade hacks like this when possible! I will definitely try this as we haven’t bought ranch from the store for a long time. I have a sister who loves it!
This is unrelated to ranch dressing (and long!), but I read this today and thought some Acorns may enjoy it. I think we’ve all read things along these lines, but I thought I would share.
HEY, WASN’T THIS US?
A little house with three bedrooms,
one bathroom and one car on the street.
A mower that you had to push
to make the grass look neat.
In the kitchen on the wall
we only had one phone,
And no need for recording things,
someone was always home.
We only had a living room
where we would congregate,
unless it was at mealtime
in the kitchen where we ate.
We had no need for family rooms
or extra rooms to dine.
When meeting as a family
those two rooms would work out fine.
We only had one TV set
and channels maybe two,
But always there was one of them
with something worth the view.
For snacks we had potato chips
that tasted like a chip.
And if you wanted flavor
there was Lipton’s onion dip.
Store-bought snacks were rare because my mother liked to cook
and nothing can compare to snacks in Betty Crocker’s book.
Weekends were for family trips
or staying home to play.
We all did things together —
even go to church to pray.
When we did our weekend trips
depending on the weather,
no one stayed at home because
we liked to be together.
Sometimes we would separate
to do things on our own,
but we knew where the others were without our own cell phone.
Then there were the movies
with your favorite movie star,
and nothing can compare
to watching movies in your car.
Then there were the picnics
at the peak of summer season,
pack a lunch and find some trees
and never need a reason.
Get a baseball game together
with all the friends you know,
have real action playing ball —
and no game video.
Remember when the doctor
used to be the family friend,
and didn’t need insurance
or a lawyer to defend?
The way that he took care of you
or what he had to do,
because he took an oath and strived to do the best for you.
Remember going to the store
and shopping casually,
and when you went to pay for it
you used your own money?
Nothing that you had to swipe
or punch in some amount,
and remember when the cashier person had to really count?
The milkman used to go
from door to door,
And it was just a few cents more
than going to the store.
There was a time when mailed letters came right to your door,
without a lot of junk mail ads
sent out by every store.
The mailman knew each house by name and knew where it was sent;
there were not loads of mail addressed to “present occupant.”
There was a time when just one glance was all that it would take,
and you would know the kind of car, the model and the make.
They didn’t look like turtles
trying to squeeze out every mile;
they were streamlined, white walls, fins and really had some style.
One time the music that you played whenever you would jive,
was from a vinyl, big-holed record
called a forty-five.
The record player had a post
to keep them all in line and then the records would drop down and play one at a time.
Oh sure, we had our problems then, just like we do today
and always we were striving,
trying for a better way.
Oh, the simple life we lived
still seems like so much fun,
how can you explain a game,
just kick the can and run?
And why would boys put baseball cards between bicycle spokes
and for a nickel, red machines
had little bottled Cokes?
This life seemed so much easier
and slower in some ways.
I love the new technology
but I sure do miss those days.
So time moves on and so do we
and nothing stays the same,
but I sure love to reminisce
and walk down memory lane.
This was so enjoyable. Thank you for sharing it!
Allie, that poem hits the nail on the head for many of us. The 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom makes me think of my father in law- 5 girls, wife and one bathroom. He died in 2013 and we laugh and joke about this and say the bushes around the edge of his backyard have just about recovered from him not being able to use his house bathroom. The single phone on the wall was on a 6, maybe 8 part line, each person had a coded ring, but the others on the line could pick up their phone and listen in on your phone call. I sure do miss the simpler times of the past, I will add this doors would be left unlocked and windows raised without any worry of someone breaking in and stealing anything.
We had one bedroom with two beds and a bed and crib in the living room. Eight people.
We had no car.
We staked the cow in the yard to keep the grass down.
We had no TV, no phone, no chips or snacks from a store.
We had no milkman. Ours came straight from a cow. We kept our milk in a cement box below the spring. We made naturally cultured butter and buttermilk and nobody died.
We took no trips unless we walked. We didn’t go to movies, it was too far to walk and they wanted money.
Letters came to a mailbox ½ mile away, next to where we caught the school bus.
We got no bicycles, no records, no cokes.
We had no electricity. No indoor bathroom facilities.
Those were my formative years. Was I deprived, I think not. I have experienced life from another further era and have been able to compare it to today. A vast majority of people today can only imagine it. I have millions of answers to questions nobody cares to ask. They get their answers from TV, the Internet and AI and are satisfied.
TY for the poem Allie.
Good morning Tipper! Thank you for the ranch dressing recipe, I’ll have to give it a try as I have all the ingredients on hand. I do love ranch dressing but rarely buy it, I usually buy poppyseed dressing for my salads. We definitely like ketchup on our fries. It’s getting cold here, the forecast is for 2-3 degrees Celsius this week. I had my husband pick all the tomatoes yesterday, so I’m hoping my squash and shelling beans will be fine. It’s terrible when you baby the plants in the garden all summer only to loose them to an early frost! I guess what will be will be. Have a great day everyone!
Thank you for the Ranch Dressing recipe! I like being able to make it without the MSG that comes in the packaged mixes, or the bottled dressing. Home made mayo can be used in order to make it more wholesome. Am I that dedicated a cook? Not always. LOL I do like Ranch!
Oh, Tipper! You just gave me the best giggle and now, on to the ranch dressing! My middle grandchild, oldest girl, (23) momma of my dearest sweet great granddaughter, Hazeleigh (14 mo) is a die hard ranch connoisseur! Swear she would have been happy if you’d filled her bottle or sippy cup with it. To this day, when we go out to eat, she’ll request extra ranch for dipping her chicken tenders in, plus some extra to go for her leftovers She’s not encouraging Hazeleigh to follow in her footsteps because she’s come to realize it’s not the healthiest of choices. I try my best to practice moderation (think Matt trying to cut back on his Little Debbie’s lol) and urge the same when others voice their struggle with certain things. Moderation is key♡ Have a wonderful day you all!!
Exactly how I feel Tipper! I especially love sweet tater fries dipped in ranch! The sweet savory combo yummy! Have a blessed day!
My family like Ranch dressing too. They like to add it to just about everything they eat, French fries, pizza, sandwiches, etc. I have added it to pasta salad occasionally. I make broccoli salad and use Balsamic vinegar in Mayo which everyone agrees is the best dressing for it. Otherwise the Ranch dressing is used.
Thanks for sharing! I love ranch too, on a lot of things.
Y’all are gonna think I’m crazy, but I use to love ranch and Cheerios. We don’t hardly eat box cereal anymore because of the ingredients, but that was a favorite snack of mine. About the only time we eat cereal now is at the holidays when we make Chex mix. I try hard to find things without the bioengineered ingredients, but it’s getting really, really hard. I can’t in good conscience buy it and feed it to my grandbabies.
Our 15 year old twin granddaughters make almost everything from scratch and share their recipes with me when it’s a hit. They made cheezits from scratch for their baby brother and they were delicious.
Y’all have a wonderful day and God bless! Praying for all y’all and praying for a healthy baby and safe delivery!
Tipper,
Have you looked up the definition of “arsh”. I understand you are atttempting to follow the phonetic term some use for “Irish” potatoes but you may be going in a direction you don’t intend.
Roger 🙂 I was taught to say arsh by my parents. It’s a common usage to describe white potatoes in the mountains of Appalachia. Documented by many linguists. You can learn more here: https://blindpigandtheacorn.com/irish-potatoes/ Thank you!
My family used the word “Arsh” all the time for the white potatoes we used. We are of English/Irish origin.
I remember my grandmother saying ‘arsh’ taters! I loved how she spoke. I would pick up the dialect when staying with her but dropped it upon returning home:)
I grew up using the word “arsh”. I still do except in the company of folks who demand an explanation, bless their hearts. We knew the connection to Ireland and the Irish but chose to pronounce the word as our ancestors for many generations had. My ancestors were all Scots-Irish who visited Ireland for a century or so before moving on to the Colonies. This was before potatoes were common in Ireland.
To call potatoes Arse or Irish is a bit of a misnomer. Potatoes were original found in the Americas and only in the Americas.
According to my Ancestry and 32 and me DNA results I have exactly 0 Irish blood. The tests didn’t rule out the fact that I am 50% potato.
Oh, and they are “taters” not potatoes in my vernacular.
You are right I heard the arsh taters all my life or spuds. And I live across the mountain from you guys. We never had a bathroom in the house while I was at home. My daddy finally put one in after I was in the army. We always had an outhouse about a 100’ from the house. Used corn cobs and old catalogs. Used a mule for our garden and field work. We had a spring down the hill from the house so we had to carry our water.
I love to read the posts you put up. Keep it going
Tipper, I am like you I prefer ranch. I am not a ketchup fan. I eat it yes, but not near as much as other people do. I don’t want it on hot dogs or hamburgers. I think I should try your recipe.
I like ranch dressing on a few things, but my favorite on a salad is thousand island and I only want ketchup on my arsh tater fries and tater tots. My local Walmart deli has ranch dressing wings that I love , but now between it being so hard for me to get around and self checkout, I no longer go to Walmart like I once did. Now with free shipping on more than $35, I am ordering more and more things but not food or groceries on line from Walmart, Amazon and eBay.