This Thai dipping sauce adds explosive flavour to anything it's paired with.

thai dipping sauce

Thai nam jim or Thai dipping sauce is crazy flavourful and dead easy. Garlic, shallots, lime juice and hot chilies. It’s a Thai wonder sauce.

Individual spices on a plate with recipe card and measuring spoons.

indian restaurant spice mix

This Indian restaurant spice mix is a blend of key Indian spices that gives restaurant curries that big blast of flavour. It’s one of the ways restaurants are able to crank out curries in no time.

This is about easy. Easy and fast. No measuring a ton of spices every time you make a curry. This is the baseline. The signature blend.

Bacon jam is a salty, sweet, savoury bacon flavour bomb. Serve it along with baguette or use it in the ultimate bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich.

bacon jam

Someday I’ll type not quite nigella bacon jam and won’t get a hit. It keeps me up at night. An internet treasure gone forever. That’s why I’m posting my minor tweak on that recipe. It’s very close to the original. Certainly I can’t take any credit for this recipe. I’m just following along here.

Bowl of fresh garlic ginger paste on a board with raw garlic and ginger from above.

garlic ginger paste

Garlic ginger paste is easy to make at home. And it is way tastier than anything that comes in a jar. Seriously. If you are looking to turn up your Indian cooking you need to start making your own.

Foolproof shrimp cocktail with homemade cocktail sauce.

classic cocktail sauce

A great shrimp cocktail sauce makes shrimp cocktail. Pure and simple. And it’s so easy to make your own at home. Fresh. Brimming with flavour. Delicious.

This tomatillo salsa or salsa verde is awesome on its own or with roasted chicken or pork.

tomatillo salsa

Tomatillo salsa. Big, fresh, vibrant flavours. It’s instant delicious and it’s easy to make at home. 

A simple, low salt creole seasoning that spices up everything!

creole seasoning

Creole seasoning can be used to spice up just about everything. Instant cajun flavour.