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    Almond Custard Sauce

    Almond Custard Sauce

    MAKES: About 2 cups (6 to 8 servings) TIME: 15 minutes A spin on creme Anglaise, the English-style custard sauce, only this one-step, one-pot method is super-easy and lends itself to many more variations. See Infusing Liquids with Flavor for some ideas; since you...
    Almond Cake

    Almond Cake

    MAKES: 1 single-layer cake (about 8 servings) TIME: About 1 hour, plus time to cool A rich cake for any almond lover. Almost all the almond flavor comes straight from the nuts, which are ground into a flour, with almond milk and extract playing supporting (and...
    Vinaigrette

    Vinaigrette

    MAKES: About 3/4 cup TIME: 5 minutes From here grow all other vinaigrettes. Use your instincts or any of the suggestions on the following pages to vary the basic recipe. My everyday dressing almost always includes a bit of mustard (see the second variation), which...
    Vegannaise

    Vegannaise

    MAKES: Almost 1 cup TIME: 10 minutes If you crave a vegan sandwich spread, salad dressing, or dip base, something you can use in place of traditional mayonnaise, you can stop buying commercially made substitutes now. In fact, you can whip this up in the time it takes...
    Traditional Pesto

    Traditional Pesto

    Pesto Genovese MAKES: About 1 cup TIME: 10 minutes The best pesto is made with a mortar and pestle. And in Genoa, where pesto originated it’s properly called pesto Genovese, and everyone there will tell you not to even bother to try to make it elsewhere, because...