Chermoula is a tart, herb-rich sauce often referred to as Middle Eastern chimichurri. Traditionally served alongside meat and seafood, we love this sauce for so many reasons. The Saffron blooms and perfumes while the lemon and herbs brighten things up. A must for grilled steaks. We love it on flatbread with goat cheese. Yummy on...
Rice is s staple for many cultures, and crispy rice cakes, using leftover rice, range from Korean nurunji, Middle eastern hkaka and Italian arancini. We took pointers from them all and created this vegan version studded with zucchini and herbs, topped with crispy mushrooms and shallots. We love it as an appetizer or small plate,...
Cashew cream is an essential part of the vegan lifestyle. Soaked cashews blitz up velvety smooth when blended, and they’re a blank canvas for flavors. For a dessert sauce, turn to our Maple Vanilla Cashew Cream – a must for fruit parfaits and drizzling over cakes and cookies. How do you use the savory version?...
We looked to our Baja Fish Taco Blend to deliver big flavor to these fish tacos. We like to use firm, white cod and then load up the tortillas with a crunchy cabbage, a spicy sauce and our favorite: pickled onions or radishes. This meal comes together quickly and is a great feed-a-crowd solution.
This nifty trick will have you flexing your clever culinary muscles as you impress your friends with this totally-fun kitchen hack. Get the oven blazing hot, grab two sheet pans and get ready to feed a crowd. These sandwiches were gobbled up by our Smidgen podcast crew when we made them to go alongside Curried...
This nibble falls into the “perfect bite” category. Crispy potatoes. Smoky salmon. Cold sour cream. A pop of heat. This fun app does it all. Our Spud Spice is the perfect addition to sour cream, greek yogurt or creme fraiche and is at home on any spud. Baked potatoes, mashed potatoes or an air fryer...
Midnight Pasta is a version of Pasta Aglio e Olio – a quick, sweep-the-pantry pasta that includes olive oil, garlic and sometimes capers and anchovies. In the movie Chef, Jon Favreau’s character Casper makes this pasta for Molly played by Scarlett Johansson. This dish is from Chef Roy Choi who created all the recipes for...
Inspired by the recent Hulu hit “The Bear”, here’s our take on the traditional Chicago Italian Beef Sandwich. In Chicago, a true Italian beef is all about the perfect roast beef, hot giardiniera, all atop a Turano Baking Company French roll. According to the New York Times, the sandwich is then “dipped, dunked or baptized”...
Sofrito is a combo of aromatic ingredients is found in Mediterranean, Latin American, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese cooking. While there are versions of Sofrito that are ground aromatics, blitzed in a blender, most often Sofrito is cooked. Hop over to our blog to learn all about Sofrito, Mirepoix, Trinity and more aromatic mixtures. For this...
This recipe from Bon Appetit caught our eye because of…well, everything. Cashews whip up into a luxurious sauce that is the perfect blank canvas for big flavors from sambal oelek and soy sauce. Broccolini gets a dunk in our Harissa Extra Virgin Olive Oil then it’s roasted – blistered (don’t you just love that word?)...