Tag Archives: Sauce
Beer and Ginger Barbecue Sauce Recipe

Beer and Ginger Barbecue Sauce Recipe

Sick of bottled barbecue sauce? Try this spicy BBQ sauce made with dark beer and ginger.

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Healthy Tartar Sauce Recipe

Healthy Tartar Sauce Recipe

I generally don’t like tartar sauce because it is so sweet, but this healthy tartar sauce recipe is tangy without being cloying.

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Lemon Sauce Recipe

Lemon Sauce Recipe

This lemon sauce is a simple addition to cooked fish or roast vegetables.

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Green Enchilada Sauce (or Roasted Tomatillo Salsa) recipe

Green Enchilada Sauce (or Roasted Tomatillo Salsa) recipe

A recipe for salsa verde made with fresh tomatillos, a perfect enchilada topping.

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Seared Scallops with Ginger Cilantro Cream Sauce Recipe

Seared Scallops with Ginger Cilantro Cream Sauce Recipe

There is a reason I am not a doctor, or a firefighter or an air traffic controller, because in a high stress situation I have been known to panic. Take my teeny weeny grease fire the other night. I put olive oil into a pan that was a little too hot and it promptly burst [...]

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Prawns with Jalapenos and White Wine Recipe

Prawns with Jalapenos and White Wine Recipe

I am back from vacation, and what a great week it was. I really got the chance to appreciate some of the fabulous food items that come out of British Columbia. It is with this inspiration that I post tonight’s recipe featuring BC spot prawns, wild and fresh from the waters off of the BC [...]

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Barbecued Chicken Recipe

Barbecued Chicken Recipe

Only I could so quickly screw up something on a first attempt. The attempt? Barbecuing. Finally we bought a bbq this past weekend and I was so excited about trying it out. J had already made burgers and steaks and so it was my turn. I decided to make barbecued chicken from Ina Garten’s The [...]

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Tomato Sauce with Butter and Onion Recipe

Tomato Sauce with Butter and Onion Recipe

I am not the first person to have fallen in love with this recipe and I won’t be the last. In fact I am back in a Marcella Hazan phase all because of it. I actually do not have the book this one came from, I have 3 of her books but this recipe comes [...]

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Chicken Gravy Recipe

Chicken Gravy Recipe

I made a beautiful roast chicken last night and even had success with my gravy,  I think is the best it has ever been! My gravy abilities are not stellar though… so I am sure anyone out there with good gravy skills could give me some pointers. However we ate it so fast there were [...]

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Rosemary Ragu Recipe

Rosemary Ragu Recipe

Yesterday, J was having a bad day. We met for lunch and he seemed really down so I offered to make dinner and asked what he was craving. Something meaty, he said. Well, his favorite has always been my bolognese. However, since it was a weeknight I couldn’t make a real bolognese sauce, I didn’t [...]

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Cucumber Raita Recipe

Cucumber Raita Recipe

This is a raita recipe to go with any spicy curry. Make it a bit ahead so the flavours can gel!

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Salmon with Herby Yogourt Sauce

Salmon with Herby Yogourt Sauce

I have missed three editions of weekend herb blogging so it is time to get back on track! My windowbox is growing wildly and so this caught my attention because it uses mint. The sauce is really simple and was inspired from a recipe I saw in an Australian Woman’s Weekly book. Of course I [...]

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Flank Steak with Red Wine Shallot Sauce Recipe

Flank Steak with Red Wine Shallot Sauce Recipe

It has been rather a long while since my last post! I spent a wonderful week in beautiful Tofino hiking and kayaking and generally having a very relaxing out-of-doors time. It is amazing how different the lifestyle of a place like Tofino and a place like Vancouver are. As much as I love Vancouver and [...]

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