Sauces

Calling all chocoholics!!! Want a grown up ice cream topping? Check out this rich, fudgey chocolate sauce made with Port wine. The port can be replaced with water or coffee for an alcohol-free version. While Chocolate Ganache is a delicious & essential baking recipe, and it’s certainly great on ice cream, it’s not the same …

Crème Anglaise, the classic custard sauce, is versatile and can be flavored a million different ways. This is a great basic recipe to have on hand. It can elevate an ordinary dessert into a special presentation. Crème Anglaise is one of those recipes that every pastry chef knows how to make and uses over and …

Silky smooth & buttery, Butterscotch Sauce has a special and specific flavor. Sure, I like salted caramel as much as the next guy, but I’m sooo ready to close the book on salted caramel for a little while. Let’s try Butterscotch Sauce for a change. While doing some spring cleaning, I found a bottle of …

Want to learn how to make Chipotles in Adobo Sauce in your kitchen? You can do it using either store-bought or homemade Chipotle Peppers. So now that I’ve pickled, smoked, dried and jellied this summer’s bounty of chili peppers, it’s time to make one of my absolute favorite condiments, Chipotles in Adobo sauce. I always …

Ever see those cute little kumquats in the grocery store and wonder what to do with them? Should you eat them out of hand, cook them, bake with them? Well, the answer to all three of those questions is, yes! I’ll get you started with this simple and versatile Kumquat Chutney recipe. You can eat kumquats …

Cajeta may be the most delicious caramel that you’ve never tasted. What is Cajeta and how it is different than caramel? Unlike a basic caramel which is made from sugar, cajeta, like it’s cousin dulce de leche, is a milk-based caramel. I use a mixture of cow’s milk and goat’s milk for this confection. The …