“It is the sauce that distinguishes a good chef. The Saucier is a soloist in the orchestra of a great kitchen.” – Fernand Point
So true! You can saute a chicken breast to perfection and make a great meal, but if you know how to make simple pan sauces, you can prepare a hundred different meals. Furthermore, you are going to find every cuisine has it’s own style of sauces, some similar, some completely different.
For example, Italian sauces for pasta like a Genovese sauce are much different from classic French sauces like a demi glace sauce. A simple soy ginger sauce for Chinese dumplings looks and tastes different from an Indian curry sauce. Even barbecue sauces can be different depending on where you live.
So here are some of my favorite sauces from various cuisines that you can enjoy with your favorite meals.
Dry Rub BBQ Sauce For those of you who are barbecuing today, here is a special treat from Chef Terrell Garrett. It is his very popular barbecue sauce that has been ten years in the making and according to Chef Terrell is close to perfection. This bbq sauce starts with a dry rub that Chef […]
I Need A Sauce for Stuffed Pork Tenderloin Danielle wrote and said, “I make this great stuffed pork tenderloin and I am looking for a sauce to go with it. It is stuffed with, spinach, pine nuts, goat cheese, garlic and sun-dried tomatoes.” When I asked Chef Terrell about a sauce, he immediately wanted to […]
Easy Pasta Sauce Last night my wife was out with some friends so I asked my daughters what they wanted for dinner. “Pasta Daddy, Pasta.” I asked them if they wanted me to make a sauce but they just wanted butter and grated Parmesan cheese. I gave them what they wanted with some carrots and they […]
How to Make a Classic Béchamel Sauce I received this email from Danielle asking how to thicken her soups to duplicate a “can soup” texture. Here is what she said: “I have recently been into making home made soups, the cooler weather I’m sure being a factor. I’ve been experimenting with trying to thicken my soup. […]
How Do I Make A Restaurant Quality Reduction Sauce Last night my wife and I had the privilege to attend the first Lemon Ball to support the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation at the Bellevue in downtown Philadelphia. It was a terrific “yellow-tie” event that raised a lot of money to be used for childhood cancer […]
What to do with leftover roasted chicken breasts? I roasted a couple of chickens the other night and will write about roasting chickens another time. I thought as long as I was roasting one whole chicken; I might as well roast two and use the meat from the second chicken for something else. And as […]
Preparing Restaurant Quality Sauces If you have spent any time on my web site, you know I am a huge fan of preparing sauces pan sauces, classic French style sauce and everyday simple sauces. As Fernand Point, the man considered to be the father of modern French cuisine said, “It is the sauce that distinguishes […]
How to Make the Very Best Sauce for Steak My youngest daughter who is just 6 years old has to do a report at school on what her favorite food is. Most of the kids are reporting on macaroni and cheese, pizza, pasta with butter but Maddie is going to talk about filet mignon with […]
We Call It “Sausage Sauce” This is one of the easiest shortcut meals you can make when you just don’t feel like cooking or don’t have a lot of time. Since my wife isn’t eating pasta this month, the sauce by itself is enough for her to eat as a meal. Serve it up with a […]
Leftover Pork Chops Can Be Great The Next Day We had some leftover pan roasted pork chops that needed to be used up and because of the heat I wanted to keep it simple. So, I thought a simple sauce served with rice pilaf and some grilled eggplant would work. Since the meat was already […]
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