Category: sauces and dips

I Think I Like It Now: Tartar Sauce Edition

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I’m not normally a picky eater. I’ll try anything once. Sometimes that means that the one time you do try it you have a bad time. This was me and tartar sauce. I couldn’t tell you where I had said sauce because it was so long ago, but it was such an offending experience I never had it again. This also meant I haven’t had a fish sandwich since that traumatic day either. Sad…I know. So now as I am expanding my culinary horizons I figured I would try to make it myself. My husband is a lover of the stuff and the other night he asked for fish sticks and chips. So there was my opportunity for culinary redemption. Here’s what I came up with…

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup mayo
  • 3 dill pickles, diced
  • 1/2 white onion, diced
  • 1 clove garlic, grated
  • 2 tsp. pickle juice
  • 1/2 tsp. black pepper
  • 1/2 tsp. salt

Directions

Mix it all together in a small bowl. Add more salt or pepper to taste if you need to. Dip all the things in it.

Fresh Pico de Gallo

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Fresh and vibrant

Ingredients

  • 3 roma tomatoes
  • 1/2 white onion
  • 1 jalapeno pepper
  • 1 limes worth of juice
  • 1/4 chopped cilantro
  • 1/4 tsp salt

Directions

  1. Dice tomatoes into 1/2 inch pieces
  2. Dice onion into 1/4 inch pieces
  3. Dice jalapeno small(1/8th of an inch…maybe…truthfully I didn’t measure the pieces)
  4. Finely chop your cilantro. (Nobody wants to bite into a stem piece)
  5. Combine every thing into a large bowl and juice your lime over the whole thing. Sprinkle salt and combine.