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Sauces

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The recipes we actually cook.

Korean sauces

Sweet gochujang sauce

A cooked, glossy gochujang glaze for wings, chicken sandwiches, noodles, and tofu. It’s savoury, sweet, and mildly spicy (according to our family). For an uncooked version, see Gochujang wing sauce.

Thai sauces

Thai-style chili lime sauce

A bright, uncooked blender sauce of lime, fish sauce, and chili for wings, chicken sandwiches, noodles, and tofu. It’s sour, sweet, and very mildly spicy (according to our family), and doubles as a marinade.

Canadian sauces

Uncle Bruce's ranch dip

Growing up we ate a lot of post-war-style food, including the famous Uncle Dan’s powdered ranch dip. I’m far too principled and lazy to buy powdered mix, so I came up with my own approximation. Two things make this dip stand out: MSG and an …

Italian sauces

Vodka cream sauce

This was one of the first fancy recipes we made when the kids were young. It was the beginning of our shared journey into cooking new foods.

Cook25m
Serves4
Mexican sauces +4

Lime crema

A fresh-tasting sauce, perfect for nachos, tacos, or over rice bowls.

Prep10m
Serves6
Italian sauces +3

Simple marinara

A perfect sauce for flatbreads, pizza, and as a quick pasta sauce.

Prep5m
Cook20m
Serves4
Italian sauces +3

Quick pizza sauce

A quick pizza sauce that requires only tomato paste. One batch makes enough for about one pizza.

Prep5m
Cook10m
saucesquick +1

Flatbread white sauce

This is a hacky white sauce recipe, for a mushroom flatbread snack.

Prep10m