Category: Dips + Sauces + Dressings

  • The Best Ever Balsamic Vinaigrette

    The Best Ever Balsamic Vinaigrette

    This recipe for the best ever balsamic vinaigrette makes a mild, sweet, crowd-pleasing balsamic vinaigrette that you can whip up in less than 5 minutes! Ahhhhhhh I’m so stinking excited to share this recipe with you guys today. I know, I know. It’s something so… basic. Kinda boring almost. But this is the BEST EVER…

  • Balsamic Sweet Onion Jam

    This balsamic sweet onion jam will be your favorite sweet-and-savory spread. It pairs wonderfully with cheese and crackers or on top of meat, fish, or tofu! Are you ready for a STUPID delicious spread that you will want to put on all the things?? Because I have it. I just HAD to make a recipe…

  • Quick Pickled Jalapenos

    Quick Pickled Jalapenos

    Quick pickled jalapenos are a seriously easy garnish or flavoring component you can add to salads, trow on some fish, squeeze into a burger, or just a snack! OH HEY, here’s that recipe I totally thought I already shared 😉 A few weeks ago, a sweet friend was telling me that she’s been making quick…

  • Pumpkin Spice Latte Cashew Butter

    Pumpkin Spice Latte Cashew Butter

    YES, I PUT ALL THOSE THINGS IN ONE AWESOME BLENDED CONCOCTION! Pumpkin spice latte cashew butter has arrived. Yup. It’s like a spreadable pumpkin spice latte. SPECTACULAR for sliced apples. An apple dipped in this delightful spread is basically the epitome of fall flavors.

  • Steamed Garlic Is The New Roasted Garlic

    Steamed Garlic Is The New Roasted Garlic

    Alright guys, got an AWESOME but weird one here for you! STEAMED garlic. As in, whole cloves of peeled garlic. Steamed. In a steamer. Over boiling water. Yep. It’s really similar to roasted garlic in that it takes that sting and lasting bad breath out of garlic. I think even more so than roasted garlic!…

  • Way Too Simple Balsamic Vinegar Oil  Dip

    Way Too Simple Balsamic Vinegar Oil Dip

    Yep, I’m posting a balsamic vinegar oil dip that is just WAY too simple. I’ve realized there’s a fairly big category of some of my favorite “recipes” that I HAVEN’T posted, titled “Things I Love But That Are So Basic They Don’t Really Count As Recipes.” Which makes me not post them. Even though you…

  • Easy Homemade Salsa

    Easy Homemade Salsa

    Yaaaaaaaay, easy homemade salsa today!!! Making your own salsa is totally underrated even though it’s SO simple. This summer, Preston and I had a “garden salsa” chile plant that did SO well. It seemed like it has been forever since I made homemade salsa, but home grown spicy peppers was the best excuse for a…

  • Ginger-Soy Marinated Tempeh Salad

    Alternate Post Title: “Sauce you could drink out of a giant mug.” Sadly, that seemed a little vague, and I wanted you to know what kind of sauce I made that you can drink out of a giant mug…. Cue garlicky, fresh, light, sweet, gingery, lightly cilantro-y, soy marinade. There’s this addictive restaurant here in…

  • Pumpkin Cashew Dip 2 Ways: Savory & Sweet

    Pumpkin everything time! I didn’t think I put out enough pumpkin recipe last year.  I am going to remedy that this year.  A lot. First up was the pumpkin bisque I posted on the first official day of fall.  Now some fun dips! Last week for a quick breakfast, I mixed a spoonful of canned…

  • Spicy Thai Sriracha Peanut Butter

    Okay, here’s the second flavor of peanut butter I mentioned in yesterday’s post.  This was the risky one.  It’s savory and spicy and weird and I really like it. I wanted to make something that didn’t seem too out there, so I tried to think of what peanut butter things go well with savory foods,…