25 mayo recipes

Making your own mayonnaise is one of the most magical things you can do in your kitchen. You transform common ingredients into a legendary, luscious sauce – and it is in fact a cold sauce.

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The sauce here is no kin whatsoever to the ketchupy stuff that too often swamps cold seafood; it's a good bet with cold shrimp or crabmeat, too.

Here's a tasty, mayonnaise-free version of a favorite American salad.

Marco Pierre White's homemade mayonnaise from the Mirabelle restaurant.