My Favorite Recipes

I found this recipe in Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill Cook book. After I made it, I realized I had nothing to use it with. Later in the week, we made a pork tenderloin with a Jamaica Jerk rub (see note) and the sauce matched perfectly with the pork. We added a simple [...]

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My friend and I took a pasta class with the Laguna Culinary School and along with making lots of pasta, they taught us several sauces including this wonderful alfredo sauce. Now alfredo sauce is a rich, heavy, but oh so delicious sauce. This version adds some lemon to lighten the sauce a bit [...]

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Bobby Flay calls this the Mesa Grill Steak Sauce. I call this the best sauce to serve with a grilled steak. The nice thing is it doesn’t require any cooking, just mix and serve.
Ingredients

1/2 cup ketchup
1/4  cup prepared horseradish, drained
1 1/2 Tbl honey
1 Tbl dijon mustard
1 Tbl pure maple syrup
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 [...]

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This is such a wonderful and simple sauce from Bobby Flay. It is simple and keeps fairly well. Use this sauce with almost any fish or chicken. I know the habanero is a very hot pepper, but it also has a very floral character to it. It adds so much to [...]

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I haven’t made tomatillo salsa in a while, but I made some the other night and forgot how bright and tangy it tastes. It also is a base for many other great recipes including guacamole, green enchilada sauce and a new favorite of mine, avocado vinaigrette. Rick Bayless loves to roast his tomatillos [...]

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