Well it’s that time of the springtime when my rhubarb plant is taller than my good friend’s 5 year old daughter (whoops, almost 5 year old 😊) – we took a look last weekend when they visited! That means it’s time to start thinking of creative ways to use rhubarb again. Derek remembered his Grandma…
Copycat Butcher’s Bistro Fry Sauce
Back when Derek was traveling to Denver two weeks a month, he and the crew he traveled with became regulars every Wednesday night at small restaurant called Butcher’s Bistro. I was lucky enough to join them a few times and absolutely fell in love with their steak frites. The steak was a ‘steak de jour’…
Buffalo Blue Cheese Sauce
For New Year’s this past year we were looking for a new sauce to try for with our chicken strips and Derek came up with the idea for a Buffalo Blue Cheese Dipping Sauce. Buffalo chicken is a classic combination and many restaurants serve chicken strips tossed in buffalo sauce with blue cheese dressing on…
10,000 Lakes Burger Sauce
You know, often when you see a burger on a restaurant menu and it says there is a ‘secret sauce’, well it seems like more often than not this is a thousand island dressing or some version thereof. So when we decided we wanted to make a really good burger – we had to make…
Copycat Cane’s Sauce
It’s almost New Year’s and that means it’s almost time for our traditional Southern Style Chicken Strip feast with my in-laws! It’s probably one of the meals I look forward to most each year. Part of it is because the night is so low key and we play games all evening. And then of course…
Garlic Parmesan Butter Sauce
My father-in-law introduced us to this restaurant called The Well. We go there for the wings, which we order naked with the sauces on the side. This lets us order a nice sampling of the sauces to dip the crispy naked wings in, instead of arguing about which sauces to have them tossed in. The…
