Writing about food since 2004.
Category
Sauces/Dressings
-
Leftover Tomato Vinaigrette
Dorie Greenspan is the master of thrifty vinaigrettes. I’m a big believer in her Mustard Bottle Vinaigrette (where you pour vinegar and oil into an almost empty mustard jar and shake it up), and now I can’t wait to try her Leftover Tomato Vinaigrette (where you take leftover tomato salad and whir it up to…
-
Bacon Bolognese
Italians, please look away. Everyone else, here’s something that I made up last week that was so good, I think you should make it too. I used leftover ingredients from the Haddock chowder I’d made the day before and, in using them, I did what Tom Colicchio’s always talking about on “Top Chef”–I developed lots…
-
Hand Blender Salad Dressing
Ever since I made that 60 second aioli, I’ve been thinking a lot about hand blenders. Ferran Adria, one of the world’s great chefs, uses a hand blender; that was his aioli recipe, after all. If a chef of his stature uses a hand blender, surely there must be something to it. Off the top…
-
Sriracha Citrus Mayo
The first time that I heard the word Sriracha, it was on an episode of “Top Chef” where the chefs tried to make Sriracha ice cream. Even though I’d been eating Thai food since college (at Doc Chey’s Noodle House in Atlanta) and I’d seen the red bottle on the table with the rooster logo,…
-
Presto, Pesto
When Liza Minnelli married David Gest-o She said, “Dear David, I get so depressed-o when I feel a hunger in my chest-o.” Dear David scratched his head. “Well I have pine nuts, walnuts, garlic too and a yarmulke cause I’m a Jew I’ll process them ’til they’re chopped through,” he answered her, in bed. “But…
