How to Make and Preserve Strawberry Jam
Strawberry season is barely a month long. One day the plants are covered in delicate, white flowers, and the next you’re drowning in ripe,…
Category: Sauces & Condiments
Shrimp Hush Puppies with Spicy Remoulade
My best friend just had a baby. She took her time in considering this event, longer even than I did. Was she okay enough?…
Zucchini Fritters with Mint Yogurt Dip
I had a mini panic attack in my garden yesterday. Let me back up. We’re having a fabulous year. Everything that we planted is…
Spicy Yogurt-Marinated Chicken Pita Sandwiches
It didn’t take long for Patrick, the grey beponytailed owner of Rockland’s long-shuttered “Second Read Books & Coffee,” to notice that I didn’t seem…
Spicy Cranberry Pepper Chutney
My favorite Thanksgiving movie is Pieces of April. It is ugly and unresolvable, and not necessarily a great film, but one I like a lot…
How to Make American Cheese
As our regular readers know, I’ll go to my grave defending processed, pasteurized American cheese. I understand your objections to this position. I’ve heard…
How to Make Chimichurri
When we first moved to Merida, Mexico, it was still a sleepy sort of town. We were living, with all our worldly possessions, in…
How to Make Ketchup
It’s much, much easier to buy ketchup off-the-shelf, than it is to make it from scratch. Preparation weighs in at about two hours, and…
How to Make Mustard
Making this super-simple mustard couldn’t be easier, but plan ahead. It won’t be ready for at least two weeks, and likely three. It takes…
How to Make Queso Blanco
I know three things about Mexican cheese: When they say Manchego, it’s not what you think. This is processed, white melting cheese like a…
Homemade Sriracha
Why in heavens would you make your own Sriracha, when the bottled version is cheap, readily available, and already pretty perfect? It’s actually quicker…
Caribbean Habanero Hot Sauce
We believe that there is a hot sauce for everything: Cholula gets drizzled over hummus, El Yucateco “Green Monster” gets added to Mexican and…