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Sauce Week

  • Lemon-Caper Beurre Blanc Sauce (Or: Don’t Tell Your Doctor)

    Lemon-Caper Beurre Blanc Sauce (Or: Don’t Tell Your Doctor)

    [Sometimes I think that Craig’s dad, Steve Johnson, writes more popular posts than I do when he’s at the helm of my site. Here he is, joining the Sauce Week fray, with a Lemon-Caper Beurre Blanc that I hope he makes for me the next time I visit Bellingham. Take it away, Steve!] Several years…

  • Espagnole Sauce: My Culinary Everest

    Espagnole Sauce: My Culinary Everest

    [My friend Diana Fithian–playwright and home cook extraordinaire–kicks off Day 2 of Sauce Week with this epic post about one of the world’s most difficult and important sauces. Take it away, Diana!] When Adam asked if Iʼd like to contribute to Sauce Week, and sent a list of sauces to choose from, there was one…

  • Rib-Eye Steak with Sauce Béarnaise

    Rib-Eye Steak with Sauce Béarnaise

    A few months ago, when I first conceived of Sauce Week, I set out to make a dinner for myself that promised to be so outrageously decadent, I’d have to close my blinds before eating the first forkful. The premise was pretty basic–steak and potatoes–with one key difference. I was going to drench the whole…

  • Welcome To Sauce Week

    Welcome To Sauce Week

    A few months ago, I had an idea. “What if I devoted a whole week on my blog to sauces? Just posts about all different kinds of sauces and I enlisted my friends to make some sauces and I also made some sauces and, you know, it was just a whole week of sauces.” So…