2-Minute Blender Hollandaise Sauce
Hollandaise Sauce can be tricky, but Julia Child gave us a method that is almost foolproof. If you have ever made hollandaise sauce from…
27 Quick Pickle Recipes for Your Garden Bounty
Quick pickles are delicious, small-batch friendly, and super easy to make. Plus, they require no special equipment and are usually ready to eat…
Authentic Thousand Island Dressing
Thousand Island dressing is indeed a very special sauce, but the real stuff isn't at all what you may think it is! Mr B and I have many…
California Quinoa Salad {with Piña Colada Dressing}
California Quinoa Salad is bright, light, amazingly healthy combo served with a delicious tropical piña colada dressing. (Inspired by Chef Marcel…
Cilantro-Lime Dressing
This yummy Cilantro-Lime Dressing {Trader Joe's Copycat} goes great on so many things - salad, rice, tacos, tortilla chips, nachos... (hungry…
Dairy-free, Gluten-Free Creamy Vegan Sauces
Two Variations on Vegan Sour Cream {including one Dairy-free, Gluten-free, Soy-free option}, plus a delicious Chipotle Pepper Sauce that will knock…
Easy Butternut Samosas {Recipe}
Mollie Katzen's Moosewood Cookbook was my first vegetarian cookbook. (If you are a vegetarian-leaning sort of person of a “certain age,”…
Fresh Berry Compote {Recipe}
Fresh Berry Compote, a whole-fruit marriage of syrup and jam, is a quick, easy, and exceptionally versatile condiment. Sometimes it's best to keep…
Homemade Ginger Syrup
Spice up your beverages and desserts with Homemade Ginger Syrup! Mr. B and I love ginger. When we discovered how easy it is to make homemade ginger…
Orange-Spiced Cranberry Sauce {with Grand Marnier}
Homemade cranberry sauce is unbelievably easy to make and can be ready in 30 minutes, stove to table. The title of this post could easily be…
Original Taco House Fiesta Dressing {CopyCat Recipe}
You can't buy the legendary Original Taco House Fiesta Dressing at the restaurant or in the store anymore, but now you can make it at…
Pacific Northwest Dungeness Crab Cakes {with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce}
Perfect Dungeness Crab Cakes are not much more than a big pile of crab and a few cracker crumbs, with a kicky little sauce on the side. With…
Peanut Butter Fruit Dip
In high school, I was one of those girls some girls love to hate – I could eat as much as I wanted whenever I wanted and never gain an ounce. My…
Poppy Seed Salad Dressing
[Rant Warning!] I almost bought some poppy seed salad dressing this week. I love it, and I was already at the store and feeling lazy, so I…
Pretty Green Feta-Dill Sauce
I love making sauces, and this one of one of my favorites. A close cousin to Greek Tzatziki, this super easy-to-make sauce goes great with many…
Pumpkin Butter – with Real Pumpkins!
This time of year farm stands and grocery stores alike practically give away winter squashes, and years ago I started making pumpkin butter when I…
Red Pepper Walnut Dip with Pomegranate Molasses {Muhammara}
Roasted Red Pepper & Walnut Dip with Pomegranate Molasses (Muhammara) is a versatile, savory-sweet dip that is delicious spread on pita, as…
Strawberry Freezer Jam {Tutorial}
Strawberry Season is here! It's time to make Strawberry Freezer Jam! IMPORTANT UPDATE: MCP Premium Fruit Pectin has changed its formula, and so…
Sweet & Spicy Buffalo Chicken Wings
Notes from the Man Cave Today is National Chicken Wing Day! (I would never have known that if Renée hadn't told me, but she says it is, so it…
The BEST Slow Cooker Enchilada Sauce
This smoky Slow Cooker Enchilada Sauce is so full of flavor (and such a snap to make!!) that you may never buy canned sauce again. My recipe…
Vegetarian Gravy
Sauces are made and broken (I made a little cooking joke there!) by the base with which they are made, and canned vegetable stock just doesn't make…
