Category: Dips + Sauces + Dressings

  • Salted Rosemary Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter

    A friend of mine emailed me awhile back with a website that sells gourmet flavored peanut butters.  Awesome flavors, from spicy savory Thai flavors to pina colada.  Weird.  Intriguing.  I replied to him that instead of spending that much money, I could just replicate some of those flavors.  He said that’s pretty much what he…

  • Leftover Makeover: Sun Dried Tomato Pesto Hummus

    Quickie post for you today!  I mentioned on my Sun Dried Tomato Pesto Pizza post that I usually make a double batch of pesto when I make it and tend to eat half of it just spread on bread and whatnot. Well, I didn’t seem to feel like that lately.  My extra batch of pesto…

  • Sun-dried Tomato Hummus

  • Spicy Lemongrass Miso Salad Dressing

    A restaurant remake success that I could just cry over! A Sacramento restaurant called Lemongrass Asian Grill & Noodle Bar makes the most amazing spicy salad dressing ever.  You know how restaurants give you an excessively large container of dressing for your takeout salad?  Like, well over 1/4 C of dressing.  Well, I eat all…

  • Salted Coconut Caramel Dip

    She’s back in the kitchen!  Watch out, appliances – gonna take a lot more than that to keep me down! . . . Wait, please don’t take that as a challenge!  Have mercy on me, kitchen gods.  Please. I thought of something fantastic to do yesterday to make my kitchen a little cheerier upon my…

  • Onion Soup Almond Dip

      Remember that awesome dip where you take a packet of powdered french onion soup and mix it into a giant tub of sour cream?   Delicious, right?   Really unhealthy, right?   Kind of makes you feel gross after you eat it, right?  Probably because you somehow downed half a tub of sour cream…

  • Sweet Potato Chorizo Cakes w/ Mango-Avocado Salsa

    My love of soy chorizo emerges again!   I thought about making an entire chorizo patty.  But that seemed a bit excessive.  So I made sweet potato cakes with plenty of soy chorizo running through them!

  • Creamy Roasted Garlic Salad Dressing

    Do you want a dressing recipe that will make you crave and devour a salad?  Thought so.   I saw a bottle of creamy roasted garlic dressing awhile ago on sale at the store.  I rarely buy pre-bottled dressing, but was trying to eat salads more often so I wanted a nice variety of options. …

  • Black Pepper Raw Cashew Cheese

    Cashew cheese has been on my obscenely long list of vegan goodies to try to make at home.  But that was just out of sheer unknowing curiosity.  That is, until last week, when I bought a tub of cashew cheese at the farmer’s market.  Now I knew I had to make some.    I’m not…

  • Two-Ingredient Chipotle Black Bean Dip

    Yes, two ingredients.  No more necessary.   I had this wonderful black bean dip at a restaurant with a mild but definite chipotle flavor.  I was trying to think of how to make it and kept procrastinating making/posting it because I had no idea what I would put in the dip other than chipotles in…