Creamy Horseradish Sauce is an easy to make sauce that packs a punch. It’s the perfect condiment to go with Prime Rib Roast, steaks or even on a roast beef sandwich. Have you ever tried to grate a fresh horseradish? Do yourself a favor and DON’T! It is so potent and powerful, some people have even…
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Homemade Tartar Sauce Recipe
Everyone needs an easy and delicious homemade Tartar Sauce recipe, and this one won’t disappoint! It’s so much tastier than store bought Tartar Sauce and can be made in minutes. It’s important to get a great tasting mayo for this recipe. I suggest Hellmans Real Mayo, Best Foods or Heinz Mayo for the tastiest result….
Creamy Sweet Chili Sauce
I love this Creamy Sweet Chili Sauce and Dressing recipe, so easy to make and a tasty way to spice up your meals. It’s a perfect dip for Salt and Pepper Shrimp , a fry sauce for Potato Wedges or even as a creamy dip for Chicken Nuggets. I think it’s even tastier than Tartare Sauce the next time you…
Grilled Chicken Mango Salsa
Grilled Chicken Mango Salsa is a perfect summertime meal, quick and easy to make on your backyard barbecue. Summer in Australia brings an abundance of fruits and vegetables, including mangoes, which are called King of Fruits. Once you eat a ripe mango from a tree, you’ll understand why it has that name! And you’ll need…
Sriracha Mayo
This Sriracha Mayo recipe is fantastic dipping sauce for potato wedges, chicken nuggets or strips, salt and pepper shrimp, sushi, and even goes fantastic on a burger or sandwich. If you haven’t heard of Sriracha sauce, maybe you’ve been living under a rock! It’s also called Rooster Sauce or Cock Sauce, and is of Thai…
Easy Juniper Berry Gravy
Easy Gravy Without Drippings flavored with Juniper Berries, isn’t just some fancy gravy that you find at Whole Foods. It’s an easy gravy recipe that I make on Thanksgiving or Christmas. Especially when I make a Deep Fried Turkey, I don’t have fat drippings, so this recipe works perfectly. Some people don’t like the fat…
Pesto using a Pestle and Mortar
Making Homemade Pesto using a Mortar and Pestle, is incredibly…easy! Basil season is in full swing in my garden, and it’s time to overload my online recipe book with basil recipes. I love using my mortar and pestle, in fact, I have 2 that live on my counter top. I find they are quick and…
Russian Pickled Tomatoes
There are so many different ways to make Russian Pickled Tomatoes (солёные помидоры), which in Russian, translates to ‘salted tomatoes’. It’s a perfect recipe for when you have lots of tomatoes in your garden, and need to use them up quickly. Russian Pickled Tomatoes are great for storing for the winter. There are multiple recipes in…
Thai Sweet Chili Sauce
I love sauces, especially this Thai Sweet Chili Sauce. I’ve been told I drown my food in sauces, but I can’t help it, I really love tasty sauces. I remember the first time I had Thai Sweet Chilli Sauce (or Sweet Thai Chili Sauce), it was here in Australia. We were invited to a bbq,…
Mango Chili Sauce
Mango season is in full swing, and I can’t seem to resist buying a case of mangoes. This usually means we have about a dozen mangoes in the house, and ultimately means mango sauce time. I seem to buy a mango called R2E2 Mango, which can weigh up to 1 kilo (2 pounds each)! R2E2 simply…
Fermented Tomatoes
Russian Fermented Tomatoes literally translate to ‘Salted Tomatoes’ in Russian, as they are make in a salt brine. The Russian way of pickling doesn’t traditionally involve vinegar, but some recipes add vinegar too now, especially if you are going to be canning them for the winter. My tomato recipe is called Fermented Tomatoes (Квашеные помидоры), but…
Summer Pickled Squash
Quick Pickled Summer Squash is a great way to preserve summer vegetables. Perhaps you’ve seen Summer Squash in the grocery store when it’s in season, and cheap, and wondered what you could do different with it? Maybe I should start by explaining what is Summer Squash. The most common one is Zucchini, followed by Pattypan Squash,…
Spicy Sauerkraut
Fermented Spicy Sauerkraut is so incredibly healthy to eat, and not a new trendy idea. Many cultures around the world have a way of preserving and fermenting cabbage, historically to get the food through the winter. Eastern Europe and Germany have Sauerkraut, Korea has Kimchi, and Central America has Curtido. Sauerkraut is made by a…
Chimichurri Recipe
Chimichurri sauce is a green sauce eaten as a condiment with grilled bbq’d meat that originated in Argentina and is popular in Uruguay, and now around the world. It’s also used as a marinade for your meat. Usually I eat Hren with my steak, which is a Russian condiment of beets and horseradish, but Chimichurri…
Hren Recipe (Хрен)
Hren Horseradish and Beets (Хрен со свеклой) is a tasty Russian condiment. ‘Hren’ is also how you say horseradish in Russian. Kind of confusing but I suppose nobody would eat just the horseradish root on its own. As a condiment, its mixed with grated beets, and eaten with a variety of meats. Horseradish is a…
How to Make Honey Mustard Sauce
Ever wonder how to make Honey Mustard Sauce? What goes better with chicken than a homemade Honey Mustard Sauce with my secret ingredient to make it super creamy! It’s the perfect condiment and dipping sauce with chicken nuggets or chicken strips, along with Sriracha Mayo. The honey mustard type sauces here in Australia somehow aren’t…
Easy Lemon Curd
Lemon season continues at my house, which means it’s time to make easy Lemon Curd! I figure we have over 100 lemons of various shapes and sizes. Home grown lemons don’t all look exactly the same as they do in the store. Some of my lemons were small and others have grown to the size…
Korean Kimchi Recipe
It’s really easy to follow this Fermented Korean Kimchi Recipe, and your health will thank you. When I was young I felt invincible, eating whatever I liked, usually. As I grew older and maybe wiser and couldn’t keep up with the twenty-somethings anymore, my interest in health miraculously came alive. So how can I combine my love of cooking…
