Homemade Blue Cheese Dressing

August 6, 2012
IMG_8311CAN I TELL YOU A LITTLE SECRET? I'm crazy about Blue Cheese Dressing. It's my favorite dipping-sauce for everything from raw veggies to French fries. I prefer it to vinaigrette for dressing lettuce greens, especially if I'm drinking wine while eating those greens. (Unlike vinaigrette, blue cheese doesn't kill the taste of wine.) My version of this sauce is both garlicky and lemony, and better than anything you can buy in a bottle: Read more »

Three-Minute Mayonnaise

March 16, 2012
IMG_4946I THINK HOMEMADE MAYONNAISE is one of life's little pleasures. It's thick and creamy. It's rich and dreamy. And it's a cinch to make. In fact, if you have a food processor, you can turn out this egg yolk-yellow sumptuousness in under 3 minutes. Read more »