Spice Blend

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Italian Seasoning
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Jul 16, 2025

Italian Seasoning

Often called for in recipes to add an earthy and sweet flavor, Italian seasoning blend is widely available at the grocery store, but it’s just as easy to make with pantry items you already have at home. Dried oregano is the star player here, supported by a variety of other dried herbs most often used in Italian cooking. Feel free to tweak to your liking, inviting other herbs to join as well. This mix is handy to have on hand for a variety of Italian and Italian-American recipes. Try rubbing it on meats, sprinkling it on vegetables, or using it in soups and salad dressings to boost flavor.

10m5 teaspoons
Blue Ribbon Cajun Seasoning
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Jan 23, 2011

Blue Ribbon Cajun Seasoning

Back in 2011, in his New York Times Magazine column, Cooking With Dexter, Pete Wells asked his son about his favorite foods. “It was a tie,” Wells recounted Dexter saying, “between sushi and the fried chicken at Brooklyn Bowl.” The chicken was a specialty of Eric and Bruce Bromberg’s SoHo restaurant Blue Ribbon, and this Cajun seasoning central to it. Adapted from “Bromberg Bros. Blue Ribbon Cookbook,” by Bruce Bromberg, Eric Bromberg and Melissa Clark, this recipe is ready in no time, using ingredients straight from a well-stocked spice rack, but it changes whatever it’s sprinkled on.

5mMakes about 3/4 cup