There’s something undeniably delightful about the combination of creamy, whipped cream cheese and the rich, smoky flavor of salmon. Whether you’re using homemade or store-bought smoked salmon, this simple yet delicious spread is perfect for bagels, bagel chips and other crackers, and more. This smoked salmon cream cheese spread is […]
Condiments
Coriander Chutney
Coriander chutney is a vibrant and flavorful condiment, perfect for adding a fresh, herby kick to various dishes. This versatile chutney combines fresh coriander leaves with aromatic spices. It’s perfect on the Fermented Dhokla (in the Insane in the Brine cookbook) but it’s also a standard accompaniment for a wide […]
Punchy Smoked Fish Dip with Pickle Relish
I recently posted about my awesome delivery from Fulton Fish Market, including my recipe for caraway-dill smoked trout. I have other smoked fish recipes on this blog, including whitefish I once ordered from Fulton, and it was absolutely stellar. If you check Fulton Fish Market out, use the special code […]
Mind-Blowing, Gastritis-Friendly Thai Chicken Satay with Peanut Dipping Sauce
Leading up to and start the gastritis diet, I lamented all my favorite foods I’d be missing. I pictured meal after meal of bland, boring looking dishes that wouldn’t satisfy my need for unique and bold flavor. And in the beginning, my meals really were quite tame. As time passed […]
How to Make a Healthy & Versatile Gastritis-Friendly Thai Curry Paste
Thai curry paste is a mixture of herbs, spices, and aromatics used to make what Westerners know as Thai-style curry dishes, or “kaeng.” Thai curry paste is an incredibly useful ingredient, and all the more so if you have gastritis. That is because it has so many ingredients which are gastritis-friendly and […]
Gastritis / AIP-Friendly Green Goddess Dressing (acid-free)
This is the first time talking about the gastritis diet (and my own erosive gastritis diagnosis) on this blog so I’ve given a little overview here; feel free to scroll straight down to the recipe as desired. Gastritis – the inflammation and potential erosion of the stomach lining and an […]
Dill Pickle Remoulade
Remoulade originated in France as a cold sauce with some similarities to tartar sauce. It had a sharp bite with its generous inclusion of horseradish. The name remoulade came from the word for horseradish – remolat – in a dialect of French (noting that the word for horseradish in the […]
Caesar Dressing (Easy, Delicious, All-Natural)
As much as I like innovating in the kitchen, with plenty of recipes here to prove it, you might also know I like paying homage to originals. Take my garlic dill pickle or my Napa kimchi recipes for instance. The thing for me is not to just make another traditional […]
“Insano Sauce” (Copycat Lizano Sauce/Salsa)
Last year I had the unbelievably good fortune to spend a couple weeks in Costa Rica. Unfortunately, it was only in the last few days of my trip that I discovered a sauce there called “Lizano Salsa” (Lizano Sauce, pronounced like “Liz-Ah-No”, so you can pronounce my Insane in the […]
“BlueRacha” (Blueberry Sriracha) Recipe
I’ve been making fruit-flavored “sriracha” sauces for years and you can find numerous other such recipes here. Sriracha is a simple and highly versatile sauce, normally consisting of red chilies, vinegar, garlic, and sugar. Notwithstanding the addition of some fruit flavor, in these cases I very much aim to maintain […]