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Cheat Codes: Save Your Condiment Containers For A Later Date!
Condiments are great. Virtually every type of cuisine on the planet features some sort of condiments to go alongside its dishes. If variety is the spice of life, then condiments are the spice of food. Well… you know, besides actual spices. Afterall, french fries are pointless without ketchup and chicken fingers without honey mustard is a crime against humanity. But let’s face it, the vast majority of sauces and dressings we use are liquids that don’t hold up against the almighty force of gravity. Sure you can pour your favorite salsa out onto a plate and thrash your corn tortillas around in it like some sort of gluten intolerant caveman, but why do that when you can do better?
For reals. Don’t be save. Not cool dude.
Quick Recipe: Awesome Buffalo Sauce
One of the things I’ve had to deal with while getting older is that my body just doesn’t handle spicy food the way it used to. As a teenager and college student I could chug hot sauce and eat the hottest chili peppers raw just for shits and giggles. As an adult now, however, if I eat anything really spicy my stomach basically goes WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME and I get gastrointestinal cramps on and off for later on. Tragic, yes, but it’s all part of growing up for some people fortunately.
Luckily for me, perennial favorite buffalo sauce falls into the category of spicy foods I still eat en masse without digestive trouble later on, probably because it’s not just totally hot sauce. Fortunately, if you want you can add peppers/spices to it to take it anywhere from harmless to borderline radioactive. But once you whip up a batch of this, you can toss it on chicken fingers, cauliflower, or just use it as a dipping sauce, among other things.
As featured in our Buffalo Cauliflower Pizza!
You could just throw hot sauce and butter together, but I have my own little formula that gives it enough extra flavor to stay distinctive and yummy from your generic garbage pre-made sauce from the store.
Quick Recipe: Simple Indian Dressing
One of the larger cornerstone ingredients in Indian cuisine is yogurt. Not the sugary, granola-laden dessert versions we enjoy here in America, but just plain-ass regular yogurt. It gets used for marinating meats, is turned into drinks like kefir, and can also be used as a condiment. Lately I put together this simple little recipe that sprang out of my love for burritos and curry. Surely, those two can’t combine, right? Well actually they do quite well. For anyone from the Long Island area, we recommend the hell out of a little hole in the wall that serves Indian-Mexican fusion, Taco Express in Selden, NY (ignore the handful of bad reviews complaining about service, we’ve never had any problems).
Anyway, this particular recipe is for a quick little dressing that does a good job of bringing that delicious, warm curry flavor to the table without requiring a ton of time or effort. Eat it on rice, in burritos, on sandwiches, salads, etc… It’s delicious and goes well with almost anything!
Food 101: How To Make Bibimbap, Donburi, Rice Bowls, Etc…
One of my big things I like to preach to people unexperienced in the cooking world is the importance of leftovers. Leftovers are the best utility at your disposal when it comes to making lunch, and can really help out at dinner too. I bring this up because of the versatility of everyone’s favorite starch: rice. Leftover rice is a brilliant tool that can form the basis for an entire lunch pretty easily. The easiest way to do this is through what’s known as a “rice bowl”. They’re delicious, easy, healthy, and can be made with pretty much anything lying around.
Quick Recipe: Maple Glazed Pulled Chicken
Back last year we featured a delicious Fall-themed pizza which had an awesome mini-recipe inside of it. On the pizza we added some pulled chicken, cooked in an awesome combination of maple syrup and soy sauce. It was sweet, sticky, dark, complex, and other adjectives which could describe your sex-life. Most importantly of all though, it was delicious. For today’s quick recipe, we’re featuring the full details for it. Put it on sandwiches or just eat it on its own, it doesn’t matter, just put it in your body somehow.
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