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    Easy Condiments & Sauce Recipes

    Homemade sauces, dressings, and condiments can elevate any dish and make any meal crave-able. We've got everything from a basic pizza sauce and strawberry butter to ramen tares, spicy salsas, crispy chili oil, pesto, Ceasar salad dressing, and fruit sauces for pancakes and dessert!

    • A repurposed maple syrup jar with homemade strawberry coulis in it made with fresh for a professional touch to homemade desserts.
      30-Minute Strawberry Coulis (Professional Strawberry Sauce)
    • Homemade strawberry blood orange sauce in a glass Weck tulip jar, a bright red fruit sauce for topping pancakes, cheesecake, and ice cream.
      15-Minute Strawberry-Blood Orange Sauce Recipe
    • Top down view into a mason canning jar filled with homemade pizza sauce and garnished with 3 fresh oregano leaves.
      Easy Homemade Pizza Sauce Recipe (With Video)
    • deep red glistening prosciutto sugo pasta sauce in a navy blue Silit Brand braising pan looking so scrumptious you just want to take a big bite of it!
      Italian Prosciutto Sugo (4-Ingredient Pork Tomato Sauce)
    • a glass bowl filled with homemade french onion dip with green herbs throughout and a silver spoon in the bowl
      All-Natural French Onion Dip Recipe (Hiland Dairy Copycat)
    • A small shallow ramekin dish with a dollop of chili oil cream cheese dip with a pool of extra chili oil drizzled in the middle well and a large homemade fried wonton chip tucked into the side.
      Chili Crisp Cream Cheese Dip (w/Homemade Wonton Chips)
    • Homemade Asian sesame dressing in a small Weck Canning jar with toasted sesame seeds and fresh chives floating on top, showcasing its rich amber color and smooth texture.
      Asian Sesame Dressing (Easy 5-Minute Homemade Recipe + Video)
    • The silkiest creamy béchamel sauce layered into a traditional lasagna bolognese on top of meat ragu.
      15-Minute Silky Béchamel Sauce (Easy White Sauce Recipe w/Video)
    • A spoon full of traditional strawberry jam being taken out of the widemouth mason Ball jar showing it's perfect gel point.
      Easy 30-Minute Strawberry Jam Without Pectin (w/VIDEO)
    • a ladle full of deep red tomato pasta sauce
      Classic Italian Tomato Sauce for Pasta
    • An All-Clad sauté pan filled with homemade red enchilada sauce with a whisk resting in the pan.
      Red Enchilada Sauce Recipe (Authentic Tex-Mex w/Video)
    • Homemade peach jam smeared on small wheat toast slices with fresh slices of Italian peaches next to it and a blue with black speckled spoon with a scoop of peach jam on it.
      Easy Peach Jam Recipe Without Pectin (30-Minute Homemade)
    • Top down view of a widemouth Ball jar filled with creamy homemade almond pulp hummus next to a prep bowl of raw almonds.
      10-Minute Creamy Almond Pulp Hummus (Zero Waste Hack)
    • Mozzarella Parmesan Butter (Spreadable Italian Cheese Butter)
    • A dessert plate with a small Italian biscottate (toasted bread slice) smeared with strawberry-apricot-nectarine jam with the hand-labled jar of jam in the background.
      30-Minute Strawberry-Apricot-Nectarine Jam (Without Pectin)
    • Homemade Lemon-tomato vinaigrette with herbs in a glass Weck canning jar on top of a decorative vintage tray with pink, white and green flowers.
      Lemon-Tomato Vinaigrette (Easy Summer Vinaigrette Recipe)
    • chicken ceasar salad on a large round platter
      Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad (Homemade Dressing & Parmesan Croutons)
    • Easy strawberry sugar using double the amount of strawberries to get the dark pink flavored sugar.
      Easy Strawberry Sugar Recipe (All-Natural w/Video)
    • Strawberry butter in a bowl (looking like a scoop of ice cream) with a freeze dried strawberry garnish.
      Best Strawberry Butter (w/Strawberry Honey Butter Option + Video)
    • Top down view of chili oil in a glass Mason jar with a spoon in it and toasted sesame seeds floating on the top.
      Chef Liu’s Sichuan Chili Oil Recipe (Xiangla Hongyou 香辣红油)
    • homemade chipotle in adobo sauce just mixed in a glass bowl sitting on top of a brightly painted terra cotta Mexican artwork plate
      How to Make Easy 2-Minute Chipotle in Adobo Sauce
    • a heart-shaped white ceramic dish with black chickpea hummus covered in olive oil and surrounded by sautéed borretane onions, carrots, asparagus, olives, pickles, and sun-dried cherry tomatoes
      Easy Black Chickpea Hummus (using Canned Black Chickpeas)
    • Homemade pumpkin puree in glass mason jar for pumpkin pancakes, pumpkin bread, pumpkin waffles, pumpkin pasta, pumpkin, etc. (image showing fresh pumpkin puree for making pumpkin pancakes from scratch instead of canned pumpkin).
      20-Minute Pumpkin Purée (100% Homemade)
    • black-eyed pea hummus in the middle of white platter with a pool of extra virgin olive oil in the middle with two halves of a hardboiled egg on one side of the outer rim of hummus and another two halves opposite and on one other side a handful of green olives with pits from Puglia, Italy and on the other side a handful of mini cornichons ready to be eaten
      How to Make Super Smooth Black-Eyed Pea Hummus
    • Strawberry Jam Sauce in a spoon
      How to Make The Best 15-Minute Homemade Strawberry Jam Sauce
    • a vintage aluminum 1 teaspoon measuring spoon holding a scoop of lemon sugar above a bowl of freshly chopped deep red strawberries
      Homemade Sicilian Lemon Sugar
    • shallow oval ramekin dish with hot golden brown bubbly spinach artichoke dip with a single artichoke heart in the middle.
      Best Spinach Artichoke Dip (The Ultimate Hot & Creamy Party Dip)
    • Classic italian tomato sauce.
      Simple and Velvety Italian Tomato Passata Sauce
    • small Weck Jar with beautifully dark berry sauce in it
      10-Minute Homemade Berry (Licious) Sauce
    • a ladle in filled with asparagus bechamel in a white casserole dish with asparagus next to it on a cutting board
      Italian Asparagus Béchamel Sauce (The Real Green Goddess)
    • A tray holding a microplane with blood orange zest filling it up sitting in front of fresh blood oranges, empty blood orange halves, freshly squeezed blood orange juice, and a jar of homemade orange sugar.
      Easy Orange Sugar Recipe (Using Sicilian Blood Oranges)
    • a tall wide mouth Ball Mason Jar with silver lid and band full of dark vanilla beans covered in vodka and looking dark and beautiful like an extract on top of a wooden dining table with the white marble fireplace lined with a row of cooking books from end to end in my old brownstone in Brooklyn
      How to Make Homemade Vanilla Extract

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    Hi, I'm Kelly! A private chef helping busy families cook and enjoy tastier, healthier meals at home. Born and raised in Arkansas, I've lived and worked in NYC, Sichuan China, and now Northeast Italy. Each of these places impacts the diverse way we cook, live, and celebrate life. You'll find a bit of everything here whether you're new to cooking, or you've made it all. If you love to eat, you're in the right place!

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    Cozy Winter Recipes

    • Anti-inflammatory turmeric ginger mushroom chicken bone broth in ceramic mug showing healing sippable golden broth with health benefits for wellness.
      Anti-Inflammatory Chicken Bone Broth w/Turmeric, Ginger, Mushrooms
    • A piping hot bowl of cicerchie and spicy ventricina soup garnished with grated parmesan cheese and chopped chives with 2 pieces of toasted Italian bread tucked into the bowl.
      Italian Cicerchie Bean & Ventricina Soup (Zuppa di Fagioli Cicerchie)
    • A bowl of completely made from scratch tonkotsu ramen, ramen toppings, and ramen tare with chopsticks.
      Tonkotsu Ramen Recipe (Easy Authentic Ramen)
    • A bowl full of tender homemade spinach gnocchi covered in a meaty authentic bolognese sauce and sprinkled with grated parmigiano-reggiano cheese.
      Easy Gnocchi Bolognese (100% Made From Scratch)

    30-Minute Meals (or Less!)

    • Creamy pumpkin pasta with sausage and kale in a cast iron skillet featuring trottole pasta coated in pumpkin cream sauce, an easy pumpkin pasta sauce recipe.
      Creamy Pumpkin Pasta Sauce with Sausage and Kale
    • A pasta bowl filled with black squid ink tagliatelle with crab meat sugo and chunks of crab with a hot pepper garnish on top.
      Quick and Easy Crab Linguine (Linguine Nero di Seppia al Granchio Blu)
    • a sauté pan full of just tossed creamy sausage and wine sauce with rigatoni
      Creamy Sausage Pasta With Wine Sauce (Almost Pasta alla Norcina w/Video)
    • A large pile of light and crispy beer-battered chicken tenders (chicken fingers copycat recipe of Chili's Chicken Crispers with twice fried french fries on top of the sunday comics newspaper section.
      Crispy Beer Battered Chicken Tenders (Chili's Copycat)

    Authentic Italian Lasagne Recipes

    • A slice of prosciutto cotto and mozzarella lasagna with cheese and tomato sauce oozing out.
      Italian Ham & Mozzarella Lasagna (Lasagna di Prosciutto Cotto e Mozzarella)
    • Traditional homemade lasagna bolognese with eight layers, showcasing rich meat sauce and handmade spinach egg pasta noodles in classic Italian culinary style.
      Authentic Lasagna Bolognese (Lasagne alla Bolognese +Video)
    • eggplant and zucchine parmigiana with text overlay stating the recipe was a pinterest and Food52 Grand Prize Recipe winner
      Mama A's Eggplant & Zucchini Parmigiana (Pinterest & Food52 Golden Recipe Grand Prize Winner)
    • Speck and Asparagus lasagna just out of the oven
      Italian Speck & Asparagus Lasagna (w/Asparagus Béchamel & Zucchini Crema)
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