Green Peppercorn Pan Sauce
A rich brown sauce for a roast, made piquant by the addition of brined green peppercorns.
Stocks, Sauces & Dressings
Hollandaise Sauce
Famously good with poached eggs, this butter sauce is equally delicious with steamed asparagus or other green vegetables. It’s also wonderful with almost any seafood.
Hot Mustard
The real, sinus-clearing deal served with egg rolls in Chinese-American restaurants.
Lemon Coriander Dill Vinaigrette
This is good on fish dishes, and great to serve with a platter of smoked salmon on a brunch buffet. You can use standard lemons, but Meyer lemons have a unique aroma that’s really lovely the the dill.
Mint Chili Chutney
This is bright, tart, spicy, and delicious with any grilled meat. It’s also a bright modern alternative mint jelly as an accompaniment to roast lamb or lamb chops.
No-Cook Pizza Sauce
This pizza sauce comes together in a minute, so if you’ve got pizza dough on hand you can make a homemade pizza almost as quickly as you could make a sandwich.
Ravigote Sauce
This piquant cold sauce is delicious with London broil or skirt steak.
Red Wine Cherry Reduction Sauce
This is sublime with roast duck.
Sesame Ginger Dressing
This bold dressing from Restaurant Biga in San Antonio also makes a great marinade for fish or chicken that is to be grilled. Which is great, because it makes a lot for salad dressing.
Sherry Walnut Dressing
Perfect on a winter salad, with the mellow sweetness of sherry vinegar playing against the faint bitterness of walnuts.