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]]>This Homemade Tartar Sauce is adapted from a culinary school recipe. Big restaurant flavors, in a smaller, super easy-to-make recipe. Skip the store-bought sauce and instantly upgrade any seafood dish.
This Homemade Tartar Sauce Recipe Is Great On . . . Everything!
Since I was a little kid, I’ve LOVED tartar sauce.
Obviously, the mayonnaise part is built into my Midwestern DNA. But add the pickles and the herbs and it just becomes such an A++ condiment. Of course, it’s perfect with fried fish, and 99% of my unabashed love for the Filet-O-Fish (guilty pleasure, please don’t judge) is simply the tartar sauce.
I also love tartar sauce as a dip for French fries, roasted potatoes, and heck, pretty much every other kind of roasted vegetable, too. It’s obviously amazing with all kinds of seafood dishes. Give it to me with grilled chicken, honestly. Tartar sauce all day, every day.
However, I find most jarred and bottled tartar sauces to be very underwhelming. They often have an “off” flavor to me that I can’t quite place. It’s probably just the fact that they’re made with all sorts of fillers and additives and frankly, just not good.
So, fellow tartar sauce lovers: let’s explore making some homemade tartar sauce, using the same recipe I was taught in culinary school (just scaled down for the home kitchen).
Why You Will Love This Tartar Sauce Recipe
- The tangy flavor complements the richness of fried fish so well!
- It’s adapted from a culinary school recipe, which means it has all the big flavors of a restaurant condiment.
- It keeps up to a week in the fridge.
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]]>With over 100K page views, this 6 ingredient Miso Dressing recipe has livened up countless salads, veggies and bowls with sweet and tangy umami-packed flavor.
“I made this tonight and my daughters were amazed by the flavor of this dressing. So flavorful with a few simple ingredients.”
—Jill
This Miso Sesame Dressing Is Irresistible
With over 100,000 page views and counting, this six ingredient miso dressing has earned its place as a must-try Foxes Love Lemons recipe. The best part? It’s a cinch to make and uses ingredients you might already have in your pantry.
Use this umami-packed flavor booster of a condiment to elevate a simple bowl of mixed greens, or spoon it over roasted vegetables, a grain bowl, or a piece of fish or chicken.
Honestly, it’s just never a bad idea to have a jar of this in your fridge. I make a triple or quadruple batch whenever I make it, because I know every drop of it will go to good use, and quickly.
Be prepared for this miso salad dressing to steal the show when you make it.
Heads up! The dressing recipe below does NOT include ginger, but if you’re a ginger lover, you might like the ginger-added version even more:
Why You Will Love This Miso Dressing Recipe
- No blender, food processor, or any other fancy equipment needed. Just a bowl and a whisk!
- You don’t really even need to get out your measuring spoons, honestly – just eyeball everything and it will turn out great.
- Lasts up to a week (and probably even longer) in the fridge.
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]]>This fun and colorful Halloween Salad is the best spooky side dish. With pepperoni bats, vibrantly colored tortellini and mozzarella cheese skulls, it’s also the most delicious!
This Spooky Pasta Salad Makes a Great Halloween Side Dish!
The internet has exploded with creepy recipes in the past few years (including at least 16 on this site alone), but one thing I don’t see much of is Halloween side dishes!
Right before trick-or-treating / passing out candy, I’ll usually serve an easy dinner like chicken meatballs or crockpot beef stroganoff, but it’d be more fun to have a spooky side dish with it, wouldn’t it?
Enter this fun and colorful Halloween salad recipe. With pepperoni bats, spooky tortellini and mozzarella cheese skulls, it’s delicious as a side dish before trick-or-treating.
Why You Will Love This Spooky Salad
- A versatile recipe to serve as a side dish before trick-or-treating or serve larger portions as an entree. Also great for a Halloween party food table!
- It’s easy to make but full of creativity with dyed tortellini and skull-shaped cheese.
- Use your favorite greens and veggies to make it your own!
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]]>Honey Glazed Salmon is one of those unicorn recipes that is ideal for busy weeknights but also fancy enough for special occasions. Serve with rice and your favorite veggie.
Perfect Salmon with Honey Glaze
Have you ever seen one of those cooking scenes in Top Chef or The Bear or something where a chef is tilting a skillet and continuously spooning butter or a glaze over a piece of protein? Do you get as starry-eyed and mouth-watery as I do?
Let’s go for it and do this at home and live out all of our chef dreams. And we’re actually going to do it on a weeknight, because that’s how easy it really is. You don’t even need your oven!
This honey glazed salmon is as easy as searing some salmon fillets in a skillet, then using the same skillet to turn a handful of ingredients into a rich, sweet and savory glaze that you’ll want to spoon over everything else on your plate, too.
Why You’ll Love This Honey Salmon Recipe
- You likely have most of these ingredients on hand. Just buy the salmon fresh, and you’re all set!
- When your entree has as much flavor as this does, you just need to round out your plate with simple steamed rice and vegetables for a complete meal.
- Not only is this one of my best salmon recipes, but it’s one of those unicorn recipes that is ideal for busy weeknights but also fancy enough for special occasions.
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]]>Start these four-ingredient Quick Pickled Red Onions at the beginning of dinner prep, and they’ll be ready by the time everything else is.
You Can Make Quick Pickled Red Onions Super Fast!
If you think pickling onions has to be hard, involve a lot of ingredients, or take a long time, think again.
These Quick Pickled Red Onions need only four ingredients. Well, five if you count water, but let’s not count water.
If you want to eat them for dinner tonight, you’re in luck, because you can. Start them now, and by the time you’re done making everything else for your meal, the onions will be ready to eat.
This foolproof method doesn’t even need a jar if you’re going to eat them all tonight.
Why You’ll Love Easy Pickled Red Onions
- With minimal ingredients and steps, it’s a foolproof method, even for novice cooks.
- Pickled red onions can be used in a variety of dishes, from salads to tacos, adding a beautiful pop of color and tangy flavor.
- This recipe is all about speed. Start them at the beginning of your dinner prep, and they should be ready to go by the time you’ve made everything else.
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]]>Use this expert guide to learn how to make Pizza on the Grill. You don’t need a special oven or fancy equipment, and you’ll be a pro in no time!
Pizza On The Grill
My family and I consider grilled pizza to be one of life’s great pleasures. We’ve been making it for 15+ years, and have even given our friends mini classes on how to do it.
It’s one of those things where it seems daunting, but once you get started, you realize how truly do-able it is.
You don’t need any fancy equipment. No special pizza oven, and you don’t even need one of those gigantic pizza peels (those LOOK cool, but we have no place to store something like that, and it’s not necessary anyway).
Read on to learn everything we know about how to grill pizza perfectly. You’ll be a pro at this yourself in no time. Then you have to promise to teach your friends!
Why you’ll love this Grilled Pizza Recipe
- It’s a really easy weeknight dinner, but it’s also super fun for a summer cookout. Everybody loves eating pizza hot off the grill!
- Make it as simple or as fancy as you want. You can use just store-bought dough, pizza sauce and cheese. Anything beyond that is a bonus!
- The edges of your crust will get a little crispy and charred like they do at wood-fired pizza restaurants, but the inner parts stay nice and chewy.
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]]>This Raspberry Vinaigrette is a restaurant recipe adapted for home chefs. Made with fresh, clean ingredients and bursting with fruit flavor!
This Raspberry Vinaigrette Is Bursting With Fresh Fruit Flavor
I’ve been slowly working through some of my culinary school notes and textbooks, and adapting the salad dressing recipes from batches made in literal buckets for restaurant use, to much, much smaller batches for us regular folk.
This Raspberry Vinaigrette recipe is the latest to get the home chef treatment. It’s made with fresh, clean ingredients like raspberries, lemon juice and olive oil, and bursting with fruit flavor.
Drizzle this sweet yet savory dressing over a grain salad or Summer Salad Recipe.
Why You’ll Love This Raspberry Vinaigrette Recipe
- No artificial flavors or preservatives – just simple ingredients and homemade flavor.
- Once you get the hang of making it, you won’t need to measure anything. You’ll be able to eyeball the ingredient amounts, it’ll turn out great!
- It’s made with one entire 6 ounce carton of fresh raspberries, so you don’t even need to measure or weigh those, either!
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]]>This Pork Tenderloin Tacos with pineapple salsa recipe uses smart ingredient choices to make a restaurant-style dish easy enough for a weeknight or casual gathering.
Pork Tenderloin Tacos
If you’ve ever enjoyed an al pastor taco and love that succulent combination of pork marinated in pineapple, you’ve come to the right place.
This isn’t a strictly authentic Mexican recipe, but my interpretation of it using grilled pork tenderloin, that’s easy enough for a weeknight or a casual weekend gathering.
Grilled Pork Tenderloin is something that’s on my family’s dinner menu at least once a week, all summer long, every summer. I’ve grilled pork tenderloin hundreds of times, and turning it into tacos is such a great way to serve it.
Grab your grilling tongs and let’s make these pork and pineapple tacos topped with all the good things like avocado and cheese!
Why you’ll love these Pork and Pineapple Tacos
- The sweetness of the pineapple paired with the savory pork creates a burst of flavor in every single bite.
- Lean pork tenderloin keeps these tacos light tasting for hot summer days, and pineapple adds a boost of vitamin C.
- This recipe can be enjoyed year-round, by using a grill pan indoors in the colder months.
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]]>This Homemade Italian Dressing Recipe is adapted from culinary school, but made with ingredients you likely already have in your kitchen. No preservatives or artificial flavors!
This Italian Salad Dressing Recipe is the only one you’ll ever need!
I’ve been slowly working through some of my culinary school textbooks and notebooks, and adapting the salad dressing recipes from 2 gallon batches for restaurant use to 1 cup batches for us normal people.
This Italian Salad Dressing recipe (that I probably made 50+ times in school) is the latest to get the home chef treatment. It’s made with simple ingredients yet packed with vibrant flavor.
Drizzle this perfectly balanced dressing over fresh greens, toss it into pasta salad or use it as a marinade for grilled meats.
Why You’ll Love This Italian Dressing
- No preservatives or artificial flavors here – just pure homemade goodness.
- Once you get the hang of making it, you won’t need to measure everything. You’ll be able to eyeball the ingredient amounts and have it still turn out perfectly.
- It’s made with ingredients you likely already have in your kitchen, so if you find yourself needing an emergency salad dressing one night, this can be your go-to recipe.
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]]>This is the best Homemade Honey Mustard Dressing recipe there is, with a special (easy) technique to make it taste restaurant-quality. And it lasts for a week!
This is the Best Honey Mustard Dressing
“I just made this dressing as we’re having chicken with salad tonight. It’s so good! Delicious.”
—Nance
If you’ve clicked around this website before, you’ll know that I’m a homemade salad dressing enthusiast. I don’t think I’ve bought store-bought dressing in a decade or more. Well, except of course the ranch dressing that my 5-year-old insists I buy, because “it tastes better than the homemade kind.” Who can relate?
But beyond that, I rarely buy bottled dressing because I can easily make pretty much any variety I want at home, and in MY opinion, it’ll always taste better than the bottled kind.
This Homemade Honey Mustard Dressing is full of all the sweet and tangy flavors the condiment is known for, thanks to two types of mustard, cider vinegar and honey. It’s also a bit creamy from mayonnaise.
But the real secret here is something I learned in culinary school – a tiny bit of grated garlic and white onion. Most dressings call for garlic powder and onion powder, and that is fine. But this recipe has a little extra oomph from freshly grated alliums, and it’s that oomph that makes this a restaurant-quality dressing.
Why You’ll Love This Honey Mustard Salad Dressing
- With this fresh and flavorful homemade dressing, you can skip the store-bought versions full of preservatives.
- Use it not only for salads, but also as a dip for chicken tenders, sauce for sandwiches or glaze for vegetables.
- Can be made ahead of time and stored for up to a week, making it great for meal prep.
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