Ingredients
Maple Lemon Glaze
Makes 2/3 cup
This requires the least work of all the cooked tomato sauces. With this technique, everything tomatoes, olive oil and seasonings goes into the pot more or less at once, usually with no presaute and simmers until thick. Instead of the distinctively layered tastes of saute-based sauces, the simmered sauce is softer, more tomatoey and mellow.
Mole Coloradito Oaxaqueño
Adapted from CookWise: The Hows & Whys of Successful Cooking with Over 230 Great-Tasting Recipes, by Shirley Corriher.
From A New Way to Cook by Sally Schneider (Artisan, 2001). © 2001 by Sally Schneider.
Ingredients
Besides using this sauce in casseroles and pot pies, spoon it over sliced turkey for a hot turkey sandwich.
A special greeting for friends with the purity of a white dipping sauce and the vibrant colors of seasonal vegetables. Gather up the freshest, prettiest vegetables you can find. Arrange them on a shallow basket, a tray lined with fresh greens, or other flat object. Spoon the dip into a pretty bowl and set in the center of the tray. Instead of a bowl, you could hollow out a cabbage and arrange the vegetables around it. Improvise, play, create. Some suggestions for vegetables:
Snappy, spicy, and a perfect lift for so many dishes, this seasoning found in the city of Lecce, in southern Italy's Apulia region, is an old way of putting up the last (or first) of the tomato harvest.