Yummy dressing and a few useful cupboard items

White almond paste, white sesame paste (tahini), and peanut butter are my favorite items to make a salad dressing or to be used on a slice of bread.

I've made this potato and red bell pepper salad with pine nuts before, see link here, but I prepared it again with a dressing for which you need white almond paste. Almond paste makes for a slightly and naturally sweet dressing without use of something sweet such as vinegar.

Here's the recipe for sauce amandine from Taty Lauwers' book Cuisine nature à toute vapeur which I recommend (old ISBN number 2-9520338-1-1).

Yummy dressing: Sauce amandine

2 tablespoons almond paste
3-4 tablespoons tepid water
1/2 pressed clove of garlic
1 tablespoon parsley
juice of 1/2 lemon
1 shallot
some salt or soy sauce or tamari

Chop the shallot very finely, stir the water into the almond paste, then further combine all ingredients, stir well.