Sauces/4 recipes

Easy beef stroganoff with thin-sliced steak, mushrooms and onions in a creamy sour cream sauce shortcut with A.1. steak sauce. A quick weeknight skillet dinner served over egg noodles.

Next time when you crave Chinese food, instead of take-out, make this quick, easy and delicious hot and sour chicken. Serve it over a bed of rice, your dinner is served.

Juicy chunks of chicken and crisp sweet sugar snap peas are in a sweet and slightly sour sauce, it's quick and easy to make, suitable for a weeknight and colorful enough for the weekend. Ready in less than 20 minutes flat.

Last Wednesday we took this colourful and delicious salad to a pot-luck, everyone loved it and a few of them even asked for the recipe. It was such a refreshing salad that's also packed with goodness.

This kung pao tofu was very tasty. I used two green bell peppers and 1 red bell peppers. Didn't have oyster sauce, so I used housin sauce, and it worked deliciously well.

Duxelles is a mixture of finely chopped mushrooms, shallots and herbs cooked in butter. It is used to flavor soups and sauces, as a garnish, and a stuffing. Take a thinly pounded pork chop, veal or chicken cutlet, or even a flank steak. Spoon the precooked duxelles down the center. Roll the meat and then sauté or roast it.

In China, there are literally thousands of methods to cook potatoes. This sweet and sour potato salad is quick and easy to put together, and it tastes delicious. It can be made one day ahead, served chilled, at room temperature or warm.

Give twice baked potatoes an Indian twist with some delicious Indian spices.

This dish, which originated on the island of Hainan, off the coast of Southern China, emphasizes the natural sweet flavour of an absolutely fresh chicken and served with rice that is cooked in chicken fat with garlic and then simmered in chicken stock.

Canh Thit Xao Sa: a fragrant Vietnamese beef soup with lemongrass, fish sauce, shallots, and garlic, topped with fresh coriander and scallions. Light, aromatic, and ready in minutes.

A great summer time dessert, lots of ripe and sweet plum give the souffles delicious flavor!

"Kohlrouladen" used to be a staple on the menu for regular people in Germany during winter time. The relatively long preparation and cooking time pays out, because it can be easily reheated over a couple of days and gets even better and tastier then. Fried potatoes complete the picture, but you can cook the potatoes also in the pot with the sauce, if there is space left. This recipe can be varied in many ways, be it the stuffing (ground meat here), or the sauce. The recipe is as traditional as it can be; the ingredients are adjusted to availability in North America (like Savoy cabbage in lieu of "Weisskohl", bacon to replace "Speckwuerfel"). For sure the ground meat can vary depending on preferences or diets - I bet quite often in the "good old times " regular people did not exactly know what's in the ground meat they got from the butcher - at least it was some meat, for most of the families only once a week.

delicate, a bit spicy dish inspired by Asian cuisine, and stir-fried in my favorite old wok..

Quick, easy and packed with deliciousness. Serve this sichuan style stir-fry dish with rice to complete the meal.

How about having some baked "rats" made of ground beef at Halloween dinner, this will impress everybody!

Assembles quickly with a creamy Parmesan sauce and fresh bread crumbs baked until crispy and golden brown. This version of Cauliflower Gratin yields a clean flavor and is perfectly seasoned. Sized for serving two as a side dish.