Archives of SAUCES AND SPREADS

Cranberry Sauce

We’re getting ready to take time off and visit our family for the holidays.  We’re going to have a traditional roast for Christmas lunch. I’ve packed my bags with cranberry sauce, kugelhopf dough, chocolate chip cookie dough, chestnuts, chocolate, Comté, and my knife kit. I made the cranberry sauce a day before and bottled it. […]
10 years ago

Chocolate, Olive Oil and Sea Salt Toast

This morning while I was emailing Arjun some shops to go to in Barcelona to bring back olive oil and chorizo, I got distracted by blogs filled with photos of padrón peppers and patatas bravas. But what really stuck in my head was something I hadn’t tried in Barcelona before: chocolate with salt and olive […]
12 years ago

The Best Caramel Sauce Recipe

A few days ago, when we were checking-out at the super market, I noticed that my husband (it still feels a bit weird calling him that) slipped in a bottle of caramel sauce, which actually was nothing more than an overdose of corn syrup with artificial vanilla and half a dozen chemicals. If that weren’t […]
14 years ago

Homemade Nutella with Nibs

Whats better than Nutella? Homemade Nutella. What’s better than Homemade Nutella? Nutella make with additions of dark chocolate, Valrhona cocoa powder and roasted cacao nibs. Oh, yes. I remember eating Nutella from the jar in college when I needed to study late into the night, hoping that the sugar will work its magic. While I […]
15 years ago

Why is your pesto bitter?

  Everyone around here loves pesto. Much like the marinated peppers, pesto sauce has become a staple in our home. I make a batch every time my pots of basil are green and luxuriant again, and right now they’re growing wild. While I stick to my favourite pesto sauce recipe for it (from Ina Garten’s […]
15 years ago

Homemade Pesto Sauces

One of my favourite local pizza restaurants serves a bread basket with three dips: sundried tomato, tahini and pesto. While my sister and orangefoodie make sure to try every dip on the platter, I choose to fill myself up with the pita bread slices and pesto sauce. Sometimes I get so carried away nibbling on […]
15 years ago

Garlicky Hummus with Olive Oil Crackers

Over the weekend I had this sudden craving for hummus. With a bottle of tahini paste on my kitchen shelf, and a box of beans soaked and reserved for chole masala, I got down to fulfill the sudden craving. I just love times like these when every thing that I need is within arm’s reach and/or […]
15 years ago
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