sauce

Beurre Monté (Emulsified Butter Sauce)

June 16, 2025

Minimal ingredients, maximum elegance: cold butter whisked into steaming water until silky, first tried over local asparagus and never abandoned since.

roasted tomato sauce

August 29, 2023

Roasted tomato sauce can be made ahead and frozen.  Roasting brings out the sugars naturally present in tomatoes.

italian tonnato sauce

January 16, 2020

Creamy Italian tuna sauce, made in minutes from pantry staples. Spoon it over cold veal, toss it with pasta or serve it as a dip with fresh vegetables.

salsa verde (a classic Italian green sauce)

October 17, 2017

Green sauce, you make my heart sing!  It has to be one of THE easiest…

Parmesan Grilling Sauce

April 30, 2014

The cool cold Spring has me pining away for warmer days. Warmer days sees us…

Chimichurri Sauce

February 19, 2014

What an amazing and versatile condiment! Chimichurri sauce hails from Argentina – a country on…

Homemade Pesto

August 1, 2013

Almost every cuisine on our planet has found an important role for garlic and is…

My Husband’s Bolognese Sauce

June 6, 2013

Where to begin?  When John and I were dating, the first meal he ever cooked…

Grilled Broccolini with Garlic Anchoy Sauce

June 5, 2013

The tail end of Spring is drawing to a close and thankfully the warmer weather…