A sauce is a delicious way to bring together the different components of of a meal. The next time you eat out, inspect your plate. More likely than not, you'll find a sauce there - it's part of the reason restaurant food tastes better than home-cooked fare. When you're looking for sauce recipes, consider what you want your sauce to do. A rich, buttery Hollandaise gives your eggs Benedict a luxurious note, while a sweet, tangy gastrique (a pared-down sweet-and-sour sauce) drizzled over your roasted chicken lends sophistication. Nowhere is this more evident than the world of pasta. Spaghetti without sauce? No way. Fetticcini alfredo without the sauce? Useless! The best part is, many of them are easy to make once you know some basic techniques: Creating a rich pan sauce after sautéing meat is simply a matter of adding some wine and butter - and it takes less than 10 minutes.
... tomato sauce a few different ways: from fresh tomatoes (because I can) and from huge cans of diced... into sauce can be as easy or as hard as you want -- well, like most things, it turns out. A very simple sauce... browned onions. Other things you can do to your sauce include: adding a cup of red wine or port... read more...
...I love my job, but some weeks I just don't get it. This was one of those weeks. Barbecue sauce...? What kind of dumb assignment is that? Why would anyone make barbecue sauce? Did I suggest this? Does my... what I needed for the recipe? Why would I bother with this? Barbecue sauce! There are 900 kinds... read more...
...Can a pasta sauce be "angry?" Sure, but in more of a firey, spicy way. That's the thinking behind... the arrabbiata (or "angry" in Italian) sauce, a classic tomato sauce chock-full of garlic and hot peppers..., into the arrabbiata. But this recipe, for Arrabbiata Sauce with Chicken and Mushrooms, goes a little more gently... read more...
back, I wrote a post called "Super Sauces" that included a recipe for Spinach BasilSince then, I've made a few other sauces that deserve to be included in this category of Super Sauces -- Basil Garlic Scape Pesto , Swiss Chard read more...
lab of some mad scientist than an actual family refrigerator. There are lots of labeless bottles and jars sporting homemade sauces, pickles, preserved lemons and liquids of almost every color.I recently added a new specimen bottle to the collection read more...
juice. Freezes quite well. I'be been using in teas, broths, citrus juice (grapefruit-ginger is my favorite), dipping sauces, etc. Grapefruit: 1 large = 1 cup juice. I could live on this during the winter. Pomegranate: I'm not sure I'd recommend read more...