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DIY Recipe: Creamy Vinaigrette

A rich, creamy vinaigrette can take a simple salad and turn it into an elegant dish worthy of center stage. Whipping up a cup or two at home is even easier than going to the store, and once you have ...

Low-Fat Pesto: Can It Be As Good As the Real Thing?

You know that we love basil, so of course we love pesto too, especially during the summer. But pesto is a little high in fat to be eating every day. So we've been challenging ourselves lately to make...

Recipe: Homemade Agave Nectar Ketchup

One of our favorite finds at the Global Food & Style Expo in Chicago last month was agave nectar ketchup. We have a weakness for the sweet and tart classic sauce, but it's typically loaded with high f...

Recipe: Basic Tomato Sauce (with Optional Zing!)

For the sauce-hungry crowd, here is a basic tomato sauce, with some lemony and spicy elements for adding an optional zing. It's easy, quick, and isn't a boring old sauce. Basic sauces were one of th...

Recipe: Vegetable and Mint Summer Rolls with Spicy Peanut Sauce

We told you we were eager to use mint in some fresh, healthy summer rolls, and it didn't take us long. Here they are! This was our first experience with rice paper wrappers, and they were surprisingl...

Recipe: DIY Crème Fraîche

With its signature tangy bite and milky richness, crème fraîche brightens many of our favorite dishes. It has a custard consistency that exists somewhere between heavy cream and sour crea...

Recipe: Velvety Broccoli and Feta Pasta

Like our recent recipe for Rich No-Cream Wild Mushroom Pasta Sauce, this pasta sauce is velvety-rich and creamy, plus nubby with flecks of feta cheese. And yet it has very little fat and dairy, aside ...

March Madness Recipe: Healthier Hot Wings

OK, everybody... Please note that the title says healthIER. We're not promising low-fat, cholesterol-free chicken wings here. But some of us are big basketball fans (of the Tar Heels, specifically) an...

Recipe: How to Make Hollandaise Sauce

During the week, I'm often too busy to cook breakfast, but as the weekend approaches, I start making mental menus for Saturday and Sunday morning. Freshly brewed coffee, fruit salad, toast with jam, ...

Two For One: Poached Pears and Red Wine Syrup

On the weekends we like to do projects that will give us meal building blocks for freezing and later use. Sometimes these take a little extra time, so the weekend is the perfect time to invest in la...

How To: Make Chocolate Ganache

What's chocolate ganache? You've probably seen scads of references to it in recipes and food writing. It's the basic tool of the chocolate baker and confectioner: cream and chocolate. Here are just ...

Recipe: Plum and Earl Grey Preserves

Plums are in season, and we have been busy thinking up more ways to use them. We were inspired by Heidi Swanson's Rosewater Plum Compote a couple weeks ago, and we set out to make our own plum sauce...

Recipe: D.I.Y. Baba Ghanoush

We get stuck on certain foods, every so often, and it's hard to tear ourselves away. Baba ghanoush, the Middle Eastern spread of roasted eggplant, is one of these things. We first made it a few week...

Recipe: Fennel, Lemon and Garlic Confit

Confit is an old French word for a classic method of food preservation. It simply means food that has been slowly cooked in salt and oil for long-term preservation. Duck confit is a famous example, bu...

Recipe: Garlic Salsa Verde

Salsa month continues with what is probably our personal favorite salsa. This is simple, easy, and punchy - cilantro, garlic, and lime. It's hot and spicy and sour all at once. We like it straight u...

Recipe: Mango Kiwi Salsa

Sweet, fruity salsa was not on our list of favorite foods until we started making it ourselves. Fruit salsas need to have a serious kick to keep them from being just a fruit salad with a little onio...

Recipe: D.I.Y. Pico de Gallo

It's all salsa all month as our DIY project hunts down new ways to avoid the storebought and pre-packaged. We've been inspired by the tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers exploding off the shelves at our...

Recipe: D.I.Y. Sage Pesto

Sage makes a powerful pesto oozing with garlicky, oily summer flavor. We recently went hiking in the Santa Monica mountains, where the hot sun brings out all the scent of wild California sage, so w...

Recipe: Chunky Peach Pancake Topping

We made pancakes last weekend, a hearty Saturday brunch for a crowd. We are great fans of maple syrup, but we also love the chunky fruit toppings found in diners and family restaurants like Bob Evans....

Recipe: D.I.Y. Hot Fudge Sauce

Hot fudge sauce is something I just can't get enough of. When I was little and my grandparents would take me to McDonald's I would ask for a hot fudge sundae with fudge layered under the ice cream as...

Brown Bag Thursday: Hellmann's vs. Homemade Mayonnaise

Mayonnaise is a main part of many lunches: tuna salad, salad dressings, turkey sandwiches and more. British food writer Elizabeth David called mayonnaise "the beautiful shining golden ointment." Whil...

Technique: Preserving Hot Chiles

These chile peppers from the Alemany Farmers’ Market win my personal Fall Colors Contest. I’m not sure what kind they are since I neglected to ask, but they look like Thai chiles and were abundant at...

Recipe: Ridiculously Quick Pasta al Pomodoro

I need you to play along with me, in accepting what follows as a legitimate recipe. It is so basic - nothing new, nothing spectacular, nothing the first tomato farmer couldn't have come up with. Can i...

D.I.Y. Recipe: Pizza Sauce

Good sauce is essential to great pizza, and homemade pizza sauce is almost as easy as opening a jar. Here are recipes for both red and white sauce, since some toppings do better on a mild, creamy base...

Recipe: Mango Salsa

A friend left this recipe on my refrigerator while I was out. They must have known that mangoes are one of the two non-local items I cannot live without (avocados are the other.) Mango Salsa serves ...

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