Sauce

This easy Balsamic Brown Sugar Glaze for Ham is a bold, flavorful, sweet finish for a holiday ham. Try it today!

This is a celebration of simple, natural flavors — perfect for when produce is at its peak. Roasted Cherry Tomatoes with Garlic and Basil is a delight. Sometimes, simplicity is the best thing for food. At home, I often rely on simple flavors — especially during the growing and harvest season. Tomatoes with a sprinkling …

This robust Roasted Tomato Marinara Sauce with Garlic, Onion and Basil makes good use of in-season tomatoes and is perfect for freezing to enjoy later. Confession: I keep glass jars and use them to store things. This old marinara jar was perfect for storing my homemade marinara sauce in the fridge or freezer. When we …

With a warm, rich flavor, Basil Pecan Pesto is delightful on pasta, lovely on sandwiches and perfect on chicken, fish and vegetables. What a great summer sauce! There are little lessons that I learn in the garden each year. This year, my first and biggest one was to be less impatient. In my rush to …

Fresh strawberries, sugar and lemon juice are all that’s needed to make a batch of this sweet strawberry sauce — perfect for spooning onto waffles, pancakes, angel food cake and more. If early summer has a flavor, it might just be strawberry. It’s the fragrant reminder of childhood treks through strawberry fields and trips to …

Don’t limit your burger potential! Grill up a well-seasoned patty and serve it on a bed of greens with gouda cheese sauce for a delicious dinner. This Bacon Burger Salad has it all! This post is part of a kick-butt burger grill giveaway hosted by GirlCarnivore but the burger epicness is all my own. I …

Roasted Red Pepper, Radish Greens and Garlic Sauce uses the edible tops of radishes to make a delectable sauce. Try it on steak, chicken or fish. When we lived in Connecticut, I didn’t always feel like I fit in. Back then — in the first decade of the 2000s — the great buzz phrase was …

Tart cranberries are mellowed in this homemade whole berry cranberry sauce featuring apples and cinnamon, which lend a warm flavor. Delightful with your holiday turkey. The giant bag of cranberries at the warehouse club we belong to caught my eye. “That’s a lot of cranberries,” my daughter Paige, who’s 10, said as I plunked it …

Carrot greens combine with garlic, crushed red pepper, olive oil, red wine vinegar and salt to make a lovely Carrot Top Chimichurri sauce. This carrot greens recipe is delicious with steak, seafood, on roasted veggies and more.

Fresh garlic scapes, basil and parsley combine to make an herby, fragrant pesto in this easy Garlic Scape Pesto recipe. Garlic is a root. It grows underground, developing a papery exterior that covers the bulb. But above ground, garlic has many lives … and they’re edible. When garlic grows, first it sends up greens (sometimes …