Hi! Im Robert Nassar from Dinner Done in Centerville, Virginia. What were talking about today is how to make a basic vinaigrette. When youre making a vinaigrette your basic ingredients start out with some form of acid, whether it be a red wine vinegar, straight vinegar, apple cider vinegar, lime or lemon, oil, garlic, salt and pepper and Dijon mustard. Now, you may have seen in the supermarket aisles that youve got a grained Dijon mustard or a smooth Dijon mustard, you can use any which one you want. Today, were going to go ahead and use the smooth variety to begin with. Our first step is to go ahead and make an emulsion with the acids and the oils. So, were going to take about quarter cup of oil, olive oil, use a good olive oil for this. You dont want to use anything but say an extra virgin olive oil and once weve got that in our mixing bowl, youre going to take half the amount of the acid whether its vinegar, or lime, or lemon. Half of a quarter cup is 2 tablespoons and thats about which you get from a half of a lemon this size. So, Im going to go ahead and use my lemon press, put the lemon juice right in there with the oil. Once Ive got that Im going to add little bit of pepper, pinch of salt, you can correct the salt later once youre done and now Im going to make the emulsion. Using a whisk in a bowl, whisk your vinaigrette until the oil and the vinegar or lemon or the acid part join up together and make one smooth liquid, thats called an emulsion. Next, were going to add for this amount a teaspoon good Dijon mustard and 2 cloves of garlic. I like to use this garlic press. Its a lot easier than using a cutting board, trust me. Once weve got all the garlic in there, combine all the ingredients well and youve got a basic vinaigrette. From this point forward like I said at the beginning you could get fancy and add champagne to make a champagne vinaigrette, you could add raspberry in puree form, blueberries, anything under the sun that you will like to use as part of your vinaigrette for your salad dressing. Thats how you make a basic vinaigrette.