Sauces

Eggplant and Green Pepper in Miso

November 20, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

This is from Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat: Secrets of My Mother’s Tokyo Kitchen which I’ve been enjoying.  I just used one small Japanese eggplant and half a green pepper because I was only feeding two people, and I cut back a bit on the sauce ingredients as well. It came out quite [...]

Chicken Sate on a George Foreman Grill

November 6, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

Last year a client gave me some Penzey spices for a holiday gift and I’m just getting around to opening some of them. Last night we tried the Sate seasoning, which has salt, brown sugar, garlic, onion, coriander, shallots, ginger, tumeric, sweet paprika, Ancho pepper, galangal, cayenne red pepper and lemon grass in it! Whew!  [...]

Basil Pesto

October 1, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I am going to freeze some of this pesto, so I left out the cheese in the main batch, following my former mother-in-law’s rule as well as Mark Bittman’s advice in How To Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food, one of my favorite go-to cookbooks. I’ve added some as I went using this on [...]

Pico del Gallo Recipe

September 9, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I eat this on everything from grilled chicken to scrambled eggs, plus with tortilla chips of course. Spoon on some black bean soup or add to burritos or quesadillas. Add to some soup to spice it up. Tonight we used it on some steak burritos with black beans, and sliced avocados. 2 large beefsteak tomatoes, [...]

Salsa Verde Recipe / Tomatillo Salsa

July 6, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I got the basis of this recipe from my niece’s boyfriend but I kicked it up a notch after tasting. Maybe he toned it down a notch, knowing I’m a gringo. Anyway, thanks to Daniel for the basis and encouragement! Lots of tomatillo recipes I saw online called for starting with the raw tomatillos but [...]

Sunday Gravy aka Meat Sauce

February 23, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I somehow ended up with a great dinner (and then breakfast) based on two cookbooks based on fictional families, The Sopranos Family Cookbook: As Compiled by Artie Bucco and Food To Die For: Secrets From Kay Scarpetta’s Kitchen. First, was the Sunday Gravy from The Soprano’s cookbook, modified only slightly to make smooth sauce rather [...]

Another good pizza sauce recipe

January 28, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I hadn’t made pizza in a while and decided to try a new sauce last week. I started with this one, dubbed the  Ultimate Pizza Sauce.  It seemed like it would be way too thick as written but I was especially intrigued by the fennel seed. Unfortunately, after I started making the sauce I realized [...]

YABS: Yet Another Barbecue Sauce

May 29, 2006 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

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

April 27, 2006 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

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 [...]

Steaks with Bearrnaise Sauce

March 27, 2006 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

Date night last night. My normal mode of shopping is to plan for the entire week so the idea of shopping for one meal that you’re going to cook in a few hours is a novelty. But I had company. The girls were gone so we could have fun cooking grownup food and sharing the [...]

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