The ingredients and techniques for making a Basic Tomato sauce vary by household, tradition and by personal preference. A basic Pomodori sauce is thinner than a typical Marinara sauce. My preference ...

In every cuisine of the world, sauces are an integral part of fine cookery. It is especially true of Western cuisines, as exemplified by the French chefs. Talleyrand, the 18th century French statesman ...

White sauce—or bechamel, if you use its French name—is one of the five mother sauces taught in culinary schools. Its simplicity makes it a blank canvas for creativity; once you’ve mastered it, you can ...

Oscar Wilde once wrote, “the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce.” It was a characteristically pithy statement that could very easily have been uttered by Antonin Careme as well. But as ...

A good sauce is key to an exceptional meal. It can save a bland dish, moisten dry meats, or star as the main event (creamy mac and cheese, full stop). Having a few simple sauces up your sleeve and on ...

Spaghetti is one of the first dishes many young cooks learn to make, and while homemade pasta sauce has its advantages, there are many great uses for store-bought ingredients too. In fact, adding ...

"What's for dinner?" might be the most dreaded question of everyday life. Even if you have a ton of ingredients at the ready, you have to figure out what to do with them and, more importantly, whether ...

There are so many things we love about stir-fry. For starters, it’s an exceedingly fast and efficient cure for ‘hanger.’ Not only that, but a steaming hot bowl of stir-fried, nutrient-rich veggies is ...

Dried pasta in the pantry is like a lifeboat for a lot of us when dinnertime beckons and we haven’t given it a thought all day. But when the weather is hot and muggy like this, one pot on the stove is ...