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Hot Mustard
Plum Glaze for Baked Ham
Tomato Ketchup
The quality of your ingredients counts for a lot here. Don’t bother making ketchup until you can get luscious, ripe tomatoes. Grape tomatoes work, but feel free to use plum tomatoes instead. You want a meaty tomato for this, so save delicate heirlooms for salads. Many ketchup recipes call for loads of spices, but this one is kept simple with just a little black pepper and Worcestershire sauce for complexity — a close approximation to that inimitable flavor of classic Heinz, without the high-fructose corn syrup.
Stone-Fruit Chutney
Brown-Sugar Glaze With Golden Bread Crumb Crust for Baked Ham
Spiced Mango Chutney With Chiles
Chutneys are often made with unripe or dried fruit; they can include vinegar, sugar and spices. This recipe, with ripe fruit, offers a two-toned flavor: sweet and tropical offset by sultry spices and the heat of chilies. It’s welcome in a grilled-cheese sandwich, stirred into mayonnaise or yogurt for a quick dip or spread, or alongside any curry or daal. There are thousands of varieties of mangoes, but two are predominant. The Tommy Atkin is green, blushed with rose, and as large as a softball. The champagne mango, the size of a large peach, is pale gold, with a floral flavor. I prefer the champagne, which tends to be less fibrous and has an impossibly lovely scent, but any mango is a boon. The fruit is full of such promise.
Worcestershire Butter
This easy compound butter brings the brawny flavors of Worcestershire sauce, thyme and garlic to just about anything. Use it on steak, chicken, grilled corn on the cob or French bread — whatever you think would benefit from its intensity. Make sure to let it soften a bit before serving. Once it’s soft and spreadable, you may just want to slather it on with abandon.
Grainy Mustard
Homemade mustard is better than its supermarket counterpart, and it’s stupendously easy to make. Here, the combination of yellow and brown seeds makes for a medium-aggressive kick, but you could use all of one variety if you prefer. Use cold water to soak the seeds, and after puréeing, taste your mustard. You can smooth it out with a little honey, or up the zip with horseradish or chiles. Either way, your mustard will mellow out after a few days in the fridge.
Chunky Vanilla Pear Jam
Here is a recipe that preserves the warm flavors of fall. Bartlett pears, lemon, apple juice, vanilla and sugar mingle into a jam that you can either store in jars, using standard canning procedures, or refrigerate for about a week. It’s a gently sweet addition to your breakfast table.
Portobello Mushroom Ketchup
Clementine Peppercorn Glaze
Henry Bain Sauce
Sour-Cherry Thyme Glaze
Ron Scher's barbecue sauce
Poblano Guacamole
Yogurt Raita With Chile and Mint
Chile Garlic Paste
If you’re looking for more heat without the characteristic smokiness of the chipotle, just add a few ordinary dried red chiles. For Mexican-style chile paste, add a bit of cumin, and some oregano or epazote. With good curry powder or garam masala you’d produce the kind of paste you see in northern India. You can make a blend similar to harissa, the classic paste from North Africa, by adding coriander and cumin. If you use fresh herbs or aromatics (including garlic), refrigerate the finished paste and use it within a day or so for maximum freshness and oomph. If all your seasonings are dried, the paste will last a couple of weeks at least. Remember this, though: Chiles can burn. If you have rubber gloves, use them. If not, every time you touch a chile, wash your hands with warm soapy water several times and be careful not to touch your eyes. The heat belongs on the table.
Tropical Pineapple Sauce
With a little knife work and a slow simmer, the pineapple sauce is ready in no time at all. While it shines in a banana split, turning a sundae from typical to tropical, you’ll find many other ways to use it: between the layers of a classic yellow cake, added to yogurt or cottage cheese, or combined with spicy mustard and chopped scallions for a sensational baked chicken.
Mark Bittman's Rouille
Sauce Gribiche
This recipe is adapted from “The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food,” the memoir of Judith Jones, the book editor who among many other things first brought Julia Child into print. It comes together in about five minutes and improves cold meats, cold cuts, blanched asparagus, boiled potatoes – almost anything you can think of. Take note: the egg needs to be really finely chopped to achieve the sauce’s optimal texture.
Spiced Brandied Cherries
This recipe calls for heating the liqueur to hasten the maceration time, and further impregnate the cherries with booze.
John Berwald's Dry Rub
South Of Spain Sauce
