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Home › Recipe Index › Essential Recipes

Essential Recipes

Whether you’re a novice or a culinary expert, there are a handful of essential recipes that belong in every cook’s repertoire. From homemade fast pizza dough and white pizza sauce, to Greek salad dressing, garlic butter sauce and the best sauce for fried rice, these timeless classics will become your go-to favorites. Master these recipes, and you’ll have a culinary arsenal that will never disappoint.

A skillet with toasted browned butter.

How to Brown Butter

Pouring vinaigrette over a Cobb salad.

Classic Cobb Salad

A wooden spoon in a pot with rice.

Fluffy White Rice (Stovetop or Oven)

Close up photo of a pitcher of Miso-Ginger Dressing sitting on a small plate. A dish of salad in the background.

Miso Ginger Dressing

A quick Asian stir fry sauce mixed in a large jar sitting in front of a chicken stir fry.

Homemade Stir Fry Sauce

Sprinkling herbs on the garlic butter rice.

Garlic Butter Rice

A jar filled with pizza seasoning.

Homemade Pizza Seasoning

A pitcher of turkey gravy on a saucer with a spoon. A napkin and flowers in the background.

Turkey Neck Gravy

Drizzling gravy over slices of turkey on a plate.

Turkey Gravy From Drippings

Miso Butter in a bowl with a spoon.

Miso Butter: A Savory Compound Butter

a serving of blackened halibut on a bed of chipotle corn salsa and sauteed tomatoes.

Pan Seared Blackened Halibut Recipe

Garlic steak bites in a skillet.

Garlic Butter Steak Bites

Blue cheese sauce drizzling down a burger.

Blue Cheese Sauce

Fluffy coconut rice

Fluffy Coconut Rice in Rice Cooker

Glass jars filled with homemade chicken bone broth.

Slow Cooker Chicken Bone Broth (Homemade Chicken Broth)

Fresh guacamole in a mortar and pestle.

Molcajete Guacamole

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