'Dips, sauces and salsa' archive

Sour cream and garlic dipping sauce

The trick to a tasty sour cream and garlic dip is to grate the garlic instead of chopping it. Grate it, and grate an onion too, and add all the juices too. That way, the dip is smooth, no bits of garlic nor onion on your tongue and the juices mixed in will give the dip a deep and wonderful flavor that you’ll never get from commercial dips that come ready made in tubs…

Grilled fish with two dipping sauces

You can serve your grilled fish with the usual soy sauce, kalamansi juice and chili peppers, or you can try a mixture of lemon juice, olive oil, salt, finely minced garlic and onion leaves. Try to get a few pieces of onion leaves with every bite of fish, they make all the difference.

The perfect barbecue sauce/marinade

The photo below is the braised pork spare ribs we had for dinner on Sunday evening. To braise means to cook in very little liquid. It is my ideal alternative to marinating and grilling or roasting. When I don’t have to time to marinate meat overnight in the fridge, I prefer to simmer it in [...]

Easy hors d’œuvre: garlicky mayo-vinaigrette dip

I originally planned on posting this as the last entry in the four-part series on easy hors d’Å“uvre featuring tilapia fillets. You know, post the fish recipes first and the dip, last. But I figured you might already decide to cook the first hors d’œuvre and it wouldn’t be fair if I held on to [...]

Caesar’s salad dressing

My kids used to enjoy only Thousand Island and Ranch salad dressings with their vegetables. Then, I saw an episode of Bob Blumer’s The Surreal Gourmet on the Discovery Travel & Living Channel where he did his version of Caesar’s salad dressing and I decided to try it myself. I wasn’t sure how my kids [...]

Mango syrup for pancakes

When my husband came home yesterday with a jar of mango jam, I immediately imagined crepes with mango syrup. See, this jam is thick, not the kind that drips off a spoon. It has the consistency of ube halaya (if you’re not a Filipino, that would be similar to the consistency of peanut butter). It [...]

Easy gravy

The secret of a good gravy is in the drippings of fried or grilled meat. But did you know that you can make a good gravy without the fatty drippings? I know. It sounds like a sacrilege to the world’s most loved accompaniment for fried chicken. But when we consider that the base of the [...]

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