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Explore the taste of the South with this easy White BBQ Sauce recipe. With just a handful of ingredients, including… …

We’re teaming up with Primal Kitchen® to bring cozy-fresh flavor to your fall cooking routine. It all starts with their lineup of delicious sauces, dressings, condiments, and more (including dairy-free options), made using thoughtful, high-quality ingredients. When it comes to weeknight dinners, I’m very much in the work-smarter-not-harder camp. Sure, I love taking on a big cooking project every now and then, but after a long day I don’t want to have to think too hard about what I’m making. Topping my checklist Monday through Friday are dishes that are quick, easy, and satisfying. Read More >> …

For most weeknight dinners, my goal is to reduce the amount of time between entering my apartment and eating pasta. The ultimate victory, of course, would be to walk through the door while eating pasta (or—if angels have descended—to arrive home to a table already set with mac and cheese). Instead, I usually settle for marinara sauce made from scratch in 30-ish minutes: Bring water to a boil while changing clothes; cook noodles while sautéing greens with fresh garlic; add pasta to said greens with a splash of cooking liquid and copious amounts of pecorino, olive oil, and fresh herbs; face-plant into plate. My parents, on the other hand, reduced the door-to-pasta period by handily employing the microwave and a glass jar of store-bought marinara sauce we always had in the fridge. Boil pasta, microwave sauce (or heat it up in a saucepan on the stove if you’re really feeling extra), mix the two together, and…

Sometimes a meal simply isn’t ready to eat without a dash (or five) of your favorite hot sauce. And there are so many varieties out there! Personally, I’ve been cultivating a giant hot sauce collection in the form of gifts for my dad. Every birthday or holiday he gets a funky, fruity, or over-the-top hot bottle of something from yours truly, and we’ve been burning our tongues on them for years. Because I just can’t get enough, I checked in with some food writers and recipe developers to see which hot sauces they like to keep on hand. Whether we’re talking about livening up avocado toast, grain bowls, and eggs, or just using the condiment to add heat to marinades and dips, there’s nothing better than hot sauce. Read More >> …

While Leela Punyaratabandhu’s Simple Thai Food: Classic Recipes from the Thai Home Kitchen—one of our favorite resources on the cuisine, to be sure—is “simple” by name, it certainly doesn’t shy away from bold flavors and time-honored techniques. In the book, Punyaratabandhu shares a selection of her family’s most-beloved Thai recipes, many of which don’t require anything more than supplies you’ve already got in your pantry. However, a few dishes do require stocking a few special ingredients—common pantry items in Thai cuisine, but maybe ones that are a bit harder to find elsewhere. And yes, while in the age of near-instant online ordering, sometimes you need to satisfy your Thai craving even sooner. Read More >> …

Here’s a quick and easy version of the classic French hollandaise sauce made in a blender. Read for eggs benedict in 10 minutes! Continue reading “Easy Blender Hollandaise Sauce” » …

Six years ago I arrived in New York from India. I carried with me: far too many clothes, an envelope full of medicines (and a list of matching ailments in my mother’s fastidious writing), five kinds of lentils, four chhonk essentials, and a bottle of Maggi Hot & Sweet wrapped in three layers of T-shirts. “Who in their right mind carries a glass bottle of ketchup to the U.S.?” my father had asked when I was still packing. “The customs guys will kick you out before you even enter.” Side note: My father panics every time I carry anything out of the ordinary on an international flight. However, even he was persuaded to bring me a stovetop pressure cooker in his suitcase once. Read More >> …

This classic Italian sauce simmers for hours to develop maximum flavor. Made with a blend of ground beef, pork, and Italian sausage, it’s great with fresh tagliatelle or fettuccine, pappardelle, or other pasta. Continue reading “Classic Bolognese Sauce” » …

Inspired by conversations on the Food52 Hotline, we’re sharing tips and tricks that make navigating all of our kitchens easier and more fun.
Today: It’s time to get over your fear of the roux. Read More >> …

Rich, meaty Bolognese Sauce is easy to make and can be on the table in 35 minutes. Use it to top pasta noodles, or layer in lasagna. It’s freezer-friendly too. Make a double or triple batch to enjoy all winter long! Continue reading “Quick and Easy Bolognese Sauce” » …

Rich, meaty Bolognese Sauce is easy to make and can be on the table in 35 minutes. Use it to top pasta noodles, or layer in lasagna. It’s freezer-friendly too. Make a double or triple batch to enjoy all winter long! Continue reading “Quick and Easy Bolognese Sauce” » …

Homemade tartar sauce with mayonnaise, dill pickles, capers, and more. It’s quick, easy to make, and much better than anything you can buy in a jar! Serve it with fish or crab cakes. Continue reading “Homemade Tartar Sauce” » …

Carla Lalli Music has a lot of tricks up her sleeves. (Which are often sensibly short, colorful, and brandishing enthusiastically over a burbling pot of something buttery—as you’ll know, if you’re one of the millions who love to watch her skillfully execute recipes on the internet.) But my favorite of Music’s tricks to date comes not in the form of a garlic-slicing demo on YouTube, or from last month’s Bon Appétit, where she’s Food Director—it’s tucked onto one of the later pages of her new cookbook Where Cooking Begins, in the recipe for Magic Green Sauce. Read More >> …

The five French mother sauces are: Béchamel, Velouté, Espagnole, Hollandaise, and Tomato. Read on to learn how to make each one.

In the 19th century, Marie-Antoine Carême anointed Béchamel, Velouté, Espagnole, and tomato sauce as the building blocks for all other sauces in his work L’Art de la Cuisine Française au Dix-Neuvième Siecle. Later on, Hollandaise got added to the family. Since then, many people consider others sauces—sweet and savory from all around the world—as unofficial extended relatives of these five sauces. Read More >> …

Classic, easy and delicious homemade Thanksgiving cranberry sauce! Here’s how to make cranberry sauce from scratch. It’s so EASY! Perfect with turkey. Continue reading “Cranberry Sauce” » …

What’s in a hot sauce? That which we call a Sriracha by any other word would taste as spicy, right? Not exactly. You see, there are a million different types of hot sauce out there in the world, with flavor profiles ranging from smoky and mild to sweet and tangy. Sure, plenty of them will provide that eye-watering, mouth-tingling burn many of us enjoy subjecting our tastebuds to—but not all. The degree of hotness all depends on one thing: the amount of capsaicin in a chile pepper. Read More >> …