White Pizza Sauce (Quick & Easy)
This White Pizza Sauce is essentially an easy garlic alfredo. It comes together in about 5 minutes and is our family’s favorite served over homemade Pizza Crust! You’ll be surprised how easy it is to make a batch of pizza sauce for your next pizza party and it keeps really well in the fridge.
Country Style White Gravy
In a matter of minutes, you can whip up white gravy in a saucepan for the perfect creamy, savory topping for your favorite dishes. This basic sauce is prepared with ingredients you likely already have on hand: bacon grease, flour, milk, salt, and pepper. For a bit of heat, a pinch of cayenne can […]
Papa John’s Style Garlic Butter Dipping Sauce
This thick, savory sauce is inspired by Papa John’s breadstick-dipping sauce. But this one is made with real butter, so it tastes even more delicious.
Soft Wheat & Water Pasta Dough
There’s something particularly refreshing about making pasta dough (or anything, really) with your own two hands, as if returning to a near-forgotten, simpler way of life. Making dough by hand is, of course, the most traditional technique, and the one that grandmothers and chefs alike swear by. It’s often called the “well method”—referring to the […]
Tony Gemignani’s Hand-Crushed Tomatoes
One of my secrets to making a really great chunky sauce with lots of flavor is to add some hand-crushed peeled tomatoes. But I don’t mean just tomatoes you squish between your hands. That’s okay for sauces that simmer for hours. But for a fresher sauce like this, I pull out the stems, seeds, and […]
Tony Gemignani’s New York – New Jersey Tomato (Pizza) Sauce
One of my secrets to making a really great chunky sauce with lots of flavor is to add some hand-crushed peeled tomatoes. But I don’t mean just tomatoes you squish between your hands. That’s okay for sauces that simmer for hours. But for a fresher sauce like this, I pull out the stems, seeds, […]
Easy Microwave Lemon Curd
Ah, lemon curd — creamy, tangy, wonderful spread on scones and toast and muffins, superb used as doughnut and pie filling, delicious mixed with whipped cream and served with cookies… So who knew it was this easy to make lemon curd? No standing over the stove stirring a pot… just several minutes in the microwave […]
Dry-Roasted Tomatoes in Olive Oil
These dry roasted tomatoes in olive oil are a great way to use up an abundance of summer cherry tomatoes while creating a perfect component to use in a few meals throughout the week. Enjoy them as a sauce, spread, dip, or flavor boost to other meals. For a standard tomato confit, the tomatoes […]
Tony’s Poolish Pizza Starter
Poolish is one of the two starters I use most frequently in my book, The Pizza Bible, and in my restaurants. My poolish follows the traditional proportions of equal parts water and flour, so its 100 percent hydration is much higher than my Tiga.
Tony’s Master American Pizza Dough with Starter
This is what I’d call the quintessential American pizza dough, inspired by New York–style pizza: medium thin, satisfyingly chewy, and the ideal companion to mozzarella, tomato sauce, and the pizza toppings Americans love best, from pepperoni and sausage to olives, mushrooms, and other vegetables. It’s the dough I teach first to new students, and […]
Tony’s Biga (Tiga) Pizza Starter
Tiga is one of the two starters I use most frequently in my book, The Pizza Bible, and in my restaurants. Tiga is my slightly more hydrated version of a classic biga starter, which is usually between 50 and 60 percent water. This “Tony’s biga,” which I call “Tiga,” has 70 percent hydration.
Ají Amarillo (Peruvian Yellow Chile Sauce)
Zippy ají sauces are mandatory with pollo a la brasa, and they’re not just for the chicken: Peruvians also pour them all over the salad and fries that share the plate. This one is mayonnaise-based and bolstered with gutsy seasonings such as garlic, ají amarillo paste, lime, and huacatay paste.
Ají Verde (Peruvian Green Chile Sauce)
Zippy ají sauces are mandatory with pollo a la brasa, and they’re not just for the chicken: Peruvians also pour them all over the salad and fries that share the plate. This one is mayonnaise-based and bolstered with gutsy seasonings such as garlic, huacatay paste, cilantro, lime, cotija, and jalapeño.
Tortilla Soup
This sopa de tortilla is a simple, homestyle tortilla soup like we had in Mexico. It is pureed for smoothness; contrasting colors, flavors and textures are added with garnishes. For the best results, ripe tomatoes are key—in non-summer months, we find Campari tomatoes to be a good option, as well as cherry or grape tomatoes. […]
Nacho Cheese Sauce
Sure, you could just pop the top on a jar of store-bought nacho cheese sauce, but what’s the fun in that? Even more importantly, what control does that give you? Not much: You can’t choose what kinds of cheese go into the sauce, nor how spicy it is, and whether you add pickled jalapeños or […]
Agrodolce Red Onions
Italian sweet and sour onions—called cipolline agrodolce—typically are small whole onions simmered with sugar and vinegar. But Ristorante Barbieri in Calabria uses sliced tropea onions, a variety that is a specialty of the region. We apply their technique to standard supermarket red onions. The slices are cooked briefly—just about 15 minutes—to soften them slightly. They […]