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cafe rio salad with creamy tomatillo-cilantro salad dressing

let's just get this straight.  cafe rio is not my all-time favorite restaurant.  in fact, when i visit utah, i never go to cafe rio.  ok, now that i've got that off my chest, i can continue... a long while back, when we moved to new orleans, layton (my handsome husband) and i were craving a cafe rio salad.  i think we all can agree that an occasional cafe rio salad tastes great.  so being the clever little self that i am, i started searching for a recipe to make my own salad dressing in the comfort of our cozy little apartment in downtown new orleans.  i found it!  i'd love to give credit to the source where i found it, but that was 7 years ago.  it is a true winner, though!  i made it for a few years and then stopped.  do you ever do that with a recipe?  i realized just last week that i hadn't made it in years!  i ate this salad every day last week until the dressing was gone.  so for all you cafe-rio lov...