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Mazza's Salad Recipe

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Ingredients:  
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1 head of lettuce, washed and torn
1 Tbsp Vegetable oil
2 Tbsp Vinegar
Garlic salt
1/2 cup Gorgonzola or Blue Cheese
Directions:
Directions:
This is a taste and wait recipe for me. It will get stronger as it sets and it will wilt as it sets.

I just wet the lettuce with oil and vinegar. I add garlic salt until I get the garlic strength I want. I don't rush it. I apply the salt then wait 15 minutes and taste. Then add and wait and taste until I get the taste I want.

Then I put in the crumbled Gorgonzola or Blue Cheese. I prefer Blue Cheese.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
I grew up knowing Mazza's salad as a salad served at the local Italian restaurant in Mount Vernon, Ohio.

The story begins with the oldest son of Italian immigrants Salvatore and Rosa Mazza, Joe. In 1939, Joe found his restaurant, Mazza's in Mount Vernon, Ohio.

Mazza’s hosted several celebrity guests through the decades, including Ronald Reagan, Woody Hayes, Hank Williams Sr., Paul Newman, John Glenn, Jerry Springer, Joanne Woodward, Alan Alda and Carole King.

Joe passed in 2003 and the business was taken over by his sons.

The family-owned restaurant which originally opened in 1939 and closed in 2008.

Jeff Boucher, a local icon and entrepreneur had grown up with Mike Mazza Senior. He purchased the rights to the secrete salad recipe.

In 2018 the boys decided to re-open the restaurant in a new location in Mount Vernon. Jeff now being retired, the famous salad returned to the original owners.

One day when Jeff was in my dental office I shared with him my version of the recipe. His comment was that I was close but missing one ingredient that made it incorrect.

 

 

 

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