I’m a fan of little sauces and side dishes. Browsing through Vegetables Every Day for a cauliflower recipe, I found one that called for steaming the cauliflower and then mixing it with an Italian salsa verde, which I’d never made before. Anything with capers catches my eye and since my parsley is still growing madly…
Sauces, Dressing, etc.
Garlic Yogurt Dressing with Beets
I’ve been on a yogurt kick lately. Not sure why. The kids have always loved smoothies. And periodically they’ll go through a flavoured yogurt period, then it will end. But I almost always have plain yogurt around for cooking. I use it in place of sour cream or buttermilk for baking. I recently bought a…
Basic Cheese Sauce
This post on recipe copyrights had me thinking about the simple “recipes” that have perhaps endless variations, but are all basically the same. Cheese sauce is perhaps not quite as easy as boiling water–but nearly so! Here’s the basics for a medium thick sauce, about what you’d expect from a can of “cream of” soup…
YABS: Yet Another Barbecue Sauce
I do like making my own barbecue sauces. The bottled ones are a) expensive and b) expensive. My prejudice is showing I suppose. I do buy the bottled ones now and then when they’re on sale at rock-bottom prices. I then keep them in the pantry “for emergencies” but I rarely have an emergency that…
Quick and Dirty Meat Sauce
Sometimes I make meatballs. Sometimes I buy those frozen meatballs. They periodically go on sale for a price that rivals the cost per pound for ground beef. But sometimes I also just make a meat sauce with loose browned ground beef. I vary the canned tomato products depending on what I have around. There’s almost…