Category: Dressings & Sauces

A simple homemade tomato paste recipe made with Roma tomatoes, portioned into freezer bags so every batch matches a store-bought can — no citric acid, no scorched pots, just a low, slow oven doing the work. This is the first year I’ve made my own homemade tomato paste using round, juicier slicing tomatoes rather than…

Fresh-squeezed orange juice and raw honey — that’s it. One simple glaze that works on salads, roasted vegetables, salmon, smoothies, and more. This honey orange glaze started as something I threw together because I needed a dressing and didn’t want to make a complicated sauce. Fresh orange juice. Raw honey. Stir. Done. I wasn’t expecting…

A quick, egg-free mayo made with almond milk and light olive oil — ready in 10 minutes, and worth every bit of the effort when you know what you can make with it. For a long time, homemade mayonnaise felt like one of those things I assumed would take too much energy. I’d seen the…

A quick, clean homemade ketchup made with tomato paste, maple syrup, and simple seasonings — no high fructose corn syrup, no complicated ingredients, and nothing you can’t pronounce. This homemade ketchup without high fructose corn syrup came together on a day I wasn’t even planning to make ketchup. My husband and sons had spent the…