Tag: sauces
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Cilantro Pesto Recipe (Can It Pesto? Series)
I had other intentions for the fourth edition of Can It Pesto?, but then two things happened—and this cilantro pesto recipe was born. First, I spent six worthwhile hours making the quesabirria tacos from the ArnieTex cookbook. Second, I had a full-on forest of cilantro growing in the top spot of my Gardyn (my indoor…
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Turkey Tetrazzini with Poultry Herb Pesto
Turkey Tetrazzini with Poultry Herb Pesto is a total leftover-dump recipe — and I mean that in the best possible way. My husband makes the best smoked turkey on his enormous, 500-lb, wood-guzzling smoker, and because he loves the process so much, he tends to make… a lot of it. I can only make so…
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The Five Best Things I Made in January
January was a bit of a strange month this year. There was crazy cold weather all across the country (even in Florida and Texas), my husband was out of town for work for most of the month, and I did some traveling of my own as well. For all of these reasons, I cooked a…
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Poultry Herb Pesto Recipe (Can it Pesto? Series)
This is the second installment in my Can It Pesto? series, where I take ingredients that are very much not basil and see whether they can, in fact, pesto. This time, I’m working with a classic poultry herb blend — the kind you usually associate with roast chicken, stuffing, or Thanksgiving — and turning it…
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Cookbook Roulette: Making Croque Madame from Matty Matheson’s Cookbook
I collect cookbooks, and in an effort to actually use them more, I decided to let a spinning wheel choose what I make for dinner. First, I added eight of my cookbooks to an online randomizer and hit “spin.” Then, I used a second wheel to randomly select a page number. The result? Page 205…
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Arugula Pesto Recipe (Can It Pesto? Series)
Pesto doesn’t always have to be about basil — in fact, with the right combination of ingredients, you can turn almost anything green (and maybe even a few things that aren’t) into a version of pesto. In this series, I’ll be testing all kinds of ingredients in pesto form to see: can it pesto? Or…
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Homemade Tabasco Sauce
Making homemade Tabasco sauce is easier than you might think. This simple homemade hot sauce recipe uses just a few ingredients and minimal effort, yet adds bold flavor to eggs, seafood, and Bloody Marys right at home. The hardest part is gathering enough tiny Tabasco peppers to make the sauce—one cup equals about 80–100 peppers,…
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Habanero Hot Sauce Recipe
This habanero hot sauce recipe made me famous at the office! It all started because my garden decided to go absolutely wild with habaneros. I’m not kidding—I had so many peppers coming in that I hosted an entire habanero-themed dinner party just to keep up. (Think habanero margaritas, habanero-seasoned fajitas… you get the idea.) Four…