Captain John's

Captain John's My parents ran a Texas restaurant for 40 years. When it closed, the recipes went with it — until I spent 4 years tracking them down. 25 salads. All recovered.

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29/08/2026

Real question —

When's the last time you made a salad you actually looked forward to eating?

Not a side dish. Not "I should eat healthier." An actual salad you were excited about.

My parents built a restaurant around food people craved. Packed for lunch. Packed for dinner. The regulars weren't there out of obligation. They came back because the food was worth coming back for.

That excitement starts with the right recipe and the right dressing.

Tell me in the comments: what do you make when you want to eat well but don't want to think too hard about it?

Stop Eating Sad Salads!Twenty-five salads. Twenty-five dressings.Some are five ingredients. Some take more. All of them ...
28/08/2026

Stop Eating Sad Salads!

Twenty-five salads. Twenty-five dressings.

Some are five ingredients. Some take more. All of them are worth making.

This is the book I wish existed when I started cooking seriously. Everything in one place, written the way I'd tell a friend — no nonsense, no shortcuts on flavor.

It's yours when you're ready.
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Here's to Great Eating. Enjoy them all!

27/08/2026

The salad that started conversations.

My mother made her dressings fresh every single morning before the lunch crowd hit. My father had the restaurant dialed in — the flow, the regulars, the operation that ran for four decades. Together they built something people drove across town for.

This recipe is one of the 25 I tracked down after she passed. It's in the cookbook. The assistant knows it by name.

What's stopping you from eating an amazing salad tonight?

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24/08/2026

My mother never wrote her dressing recipes down. Not once in 40 years.

She'd been making them so long her hands just knew. While my father ran the floor and kept every part of the restaurant humming, she was back there creating the thing that made people come back — those dressings.

The lunch crowd wasn't just loyal. They were regulars. People who worked in the surrounding area showed up every week because they knew what was waiting for them.

When she passed, none of those recipes existed on paper.

So I went back. Old menus. Handwritten vendor receipts. Ingredient lists at the bottom of boxes we'd moved across the ocean to Sweden.

They're all in the cookbook now. Every single one.

Rio Blanco. Texas Salad Dressing. All of them. All hers.

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22/08/2026

Open your fridge. Look at what you've got.

Now tell Captain John's Salad Assistant.

It'll find you one of 25 real recipes, recommend the right dressing, and build your shopping list if you need anything else.

Free. No email. No account. No login.

My parents built a Texas restaurant that packed the dining room at lunch and dinner for 40 years. This is that same food, available to anyone with a phone.

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19/08/2026

The salad that started conversations.

My mother made her dressings fresh every single morning before the lunch crowd hit. My father had the restaurant dialed in — the flow, the regulars, the operation that ran for four decades. Together they built something people drove across town for.

This recipe is one of the 25 I tracked down after she passed. It's in the cookbook. The assistant knows it by name.

What's stopping you from eating an amazing salad tonight?

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17/08/2026

ANNOUNCEMENT
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The Captain John's Salad Assistant has had a major overhaul.

It can be viewed, interacted with, and ordered from in English🇺🇲🇬🇧🇨🇦 and Swedish.🇸🇪 Other languages to follow.

Thank you and continue to enjoy the unique recipes!
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Tack och fortsätt att njuta av de unika recepten!

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17/08/2026

In 1941, my parents opened a restaurant in Texas that ran for 40 years.

My father kept the place running — the floor, the relationships, the lunch regulars who came back every week. My mother kept people coming back for the food — and her secret was the dressings.

She made them fresh. Every day. And she never wrote a single one down.

When she passed, and we moved to Sweden, those recipes nearly vanished with her. Except they didn't — because I went back. Old menus. Handwritten vendor receipts. Ingredient lists folded into boxes we'd hauled across the Atlantic.

Four years later: 25 recipes. All of them hers. All of them back.

That's what's in this cookbook. And if you want to find the right one for what's in your fridge right now, the free salad assistant does it in seconds.

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16/08/2026

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