Condiment Recipes

Making your own cranberry sauce is surprisingly easy and somehow satisfying. This orange ginger version is tart, sweet and bright. Make this traditional dish for your holidays and beyond.

This classic Tex-Mex pickled vegetable recipe is perfect as an appetizer or a topping to all of your favorite foods. Enjoy escabeche by itself or enhance your favorite foods like sandwiches, eggs, tacos, rice or make a quick salsa out of it. This easy recipe keeps in the fridge for weeks and is perfect when you want to level-up your everyday favorite foods.

Roasting tomatillos and peppers develops a smokey depth to this fresh and creamy salsa. Choose your heat level by your chile pepper choice. Perfect for tacos, mulitas and corn chips.

A 2 minute easy spicy mayo sauce perfect for fish cakes, sandwiches, crudite and canapés. This spicy mayo sauce is flavored with dijon mustard, capers, ginger, relish and hot sauce.

A home cooks guide to chili powders, the background, history and characteristics. Included is a list of substitutions for chili powders and a recipe for the chili powder blend Americans use most.

Buck Rarebit or Golden Buck is a hearty variation of Welsh Rarebit. Where Welsh rarebit is toast with cheese sauce, Buck Rarebit adds an egg on it. It cooks up easily and quickly. If you can stir a pot and fry an egg, you can make Buck Rarebit.

Tahini, a nutty and creamy paste that is easy to make in a blender. Just make what you need. Buy sesame seeds in bulk and never worry about spoilage. Make creamy sauces, hummus or drizzle on veggies.

A bold, traditional Lebanese garlic sauce used in shawarma and other Lebanese BBQ recipes.  Easy to make in the food processor, whip up a large batch and enjoy Toum all month long. “I highly recommend the shawarma at Phoenicia Bakery” – Vince With those words uttered in our tiny hospital office, my path to Middle …

A bold, robust roasted red pepper dip from the Middle East served with pita bread or pita chips. An easy vegetarian recipe made in the food processor in just 5 minutes. Put down the hummus and make some Muhammara. Muhammara is a roasted red pepper dip that originated from Aleppo, Syria but has spread to …

A simple and traditional roux recipe to use for gravy, sauces and to thicken soups and stews. This authentic and easy roux recipe will be your go-to thickener for cooking. What is roux? The definition of roux according to the Merriam Webster Dictionary is: ‘ a cooked mixture of flour and fat used as a …