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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 dish filled with French pastry cream vanilla mousseline.

Mousseline Cream

Sausage breakfast gravy in a skillet with a spoon.

Homemade Sausage Gravy

A vanilla pudding recipe from scratch in a glass with raspberries on top.

Homemade Vanilla Pudding

Scooping homemade vanilla ice cream from a metal container.

Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream

Pillowy gnocchi made with fresh ricotta in a bowl and topped with sage butter.

Homemade Ricotta Gnocchi

A skillet filled with sage brown butter on a white counter.

Garlic Sage Brown Butter Sauce

A bowl filled with homemade ricotta cheese next to cherry tomatoes.

Homemade Ricotta Cheese

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

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