I have always liked QP Kewpie-mayonnaise compared to what I would consider ‘normal’ mayonnaise. It is quite expensive to buy it here in Athens (I have never spent 10 euros for a bottle of mayonnaise before ever in my life). Japanese Mayonnaise is in a league all on its own. They even have a museum…
Category: Sauces
Sambal Tumis (Sauteed Sambal)
Here is a recipe that is a basic building block to many Malaysian dishes – the sambal tumis. It literally means Sauteed Sambal, sambal being a chilli paste/sauce and you can find the basic sambal paste recipe here. For sambal tumis though, I add a bit of garlic and shallots (or red onions) in the…
Momofuku-inspired Sauce
David Chang is a genius. I have tried quite a few of his recipes from his Momofuku cookbook and they were heavenly. The technique of how to slowly poach eggs is one that I will always use, and his ginger and scallion sauce is the ‘mother sauce’ as he calls it. One of my dreams…
Sugo alla Puttanesca
The Puttanesca pasta sauce is a tasty mix of tangy, salty and spicy hot flavours. Puttanesca literally means ‘whore’ and Sugo alla Puttanesca means ‘Whore’s style Sauce’. Although the origin of the name may not be as ‘sinful’ as you think. From Wikipedia: According to Annarita Cuomo, writer for Il Golfo, a daily newspaper serving the…
Homemade Spicy Chilli Sauce
I was told once by a Greek friend that the reason I cannot donate blood in Greece (long story on the why.) is because that my veins are filled with chilli sauce. I live on spicy food. I LOVE spicy food. And I add chilli sauce (or Tabasco, sliced chillies, dried chilli flakes, chilli oil –…
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