Smoked tomato and onion dressing

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Not a whole lot of Qview for this one but had to share because of how good it tasted.
So a while back I was watching that show Diners, Drive ins and other places that blonde haired guy goes.
He went to some BBQ joint and they smoked up onions and tomatoes to make a house dressing.
Unable to find a recipe or find that particular episode I just decided to wing it and see what happened.

First I smoked an onion and a tomato for 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Peeled the skin off of the tomato and most of the first layer of onion.
I would have left the skin on the onion and removed that afterward so I wouldn't lose a whole layer of onion but there was dirt under the first layer so I had to clean it off before smoking.


Tossed in a blender and added 1/2C mayo, a few Tablespoons olive oil, 1/2t sweet paprika, 1/4t garlic powder (would have used smoked garlic cloves but I forgot to make some), a dash of cayenne, and a sprinkle of chipotle rub.



It came out kind of runny due to the juices from the tomato and the olive oil so I added a little more mayo to thicken it up. After blended it was time to enjoy.


My new favorite salad dressing. Made Dutch's beef enchiladas the other day and put some dressing on top of one I reheated and it was even good on that.
My brother suggested we should make it with Baconnaise instead of regular mayo, didn't have any baconnaise though.
 
Had ta check out this thread cause the title just sounded good!
Gonna give it a try....thanks for sharin Fire!
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Baconnaise? Pureed breakfast? DO TELL you make it your self or da ya buy it made already? The more bacon products the better! Same channel had a show " My favorite thing to eat with BACON" it kinda ROCKED!


Good lookin dressing... will try to smoke more vegitables.. the girl is getting anxious about "all the meat" I've been eating..

CHEER EARS!!
 
Sounds really good fire. I'm definatly have to try this one
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Nice work.

That same episode made me try something similar a while back.
http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/for...ad.php?t=71235

You will have to click on pics, it was before I started using photobucket.
Saw the same episode, went looking and found this post.  

Then I went to Wutang's post and we're incredibly intrigued (wife and daughter are BIG ranch dressing lovers).

Smoking tomorrow, will let you know what we come up with.
 
Had a smoke that we were going to do for smoked meat loaf and smoked Mac N Cheese.  Also, since two of the recipes called for bacon, did some egg and bacon sammies on the grill.  You can see those threads by clicking the links.

Took a couple of your ideas and merged them for the recipe.

First, we cut some slits in the foil pan.


Next, we added four vine ripened tomatoes and one Vidalia onion.


Put them in our DG smoker with the meat loaf at about 240 and a mixture of briquettes and cherry wood chunks.


Let them go for about an hour and 45 minutes then pulled them.  Had a great texture and just a little bit of smoky aroma.


When they were still pretty warm, we peeled a layer off.


Put them in a blender (OK, it's a smoothie maker.  Don't judge) and pureed them.


Then poured it into a mixing bowl.  

Added about ½ cup sour cream


Added about a ½ cup Mayo


Stirred that all together


Added whole packet of dry ranch dip mix


Then back to the blender as a storage container and into the fridge till tonight's dinner.


This yielded about 32 ounces of dressing.  Will post later tonight and let you know the results.
 
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That looks interesting...

Seems you sacrifice some smoke you gained from peeling the layers. I think I will do this like do for tomato sauce and sundried/smoked tomatoes- Blanch 30 seconds in boiling water then plunge into an ice bath to peel the skin. Cut in half crossways, then gently squeeze out most of the seeds and excess water. Cut into quarters if desired. Then put into pan, or why put into a pan at all?
 
Was going on two things.  1) the episode on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (or something like that), the restaurant that did this peeled the layers.  2)  the Mrs. said "not too smoky".
 
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