Spicy Red Pesto made with serrano peppers, sun-dried tomatoes, and toasted nuts. Ready in 10 minutes and perfect for focaccia, pasta, and grilled meats.

These Quick and Spicy Pickled Red Onions add tangy crunch and gentle heat to tacos, burgers, and more. Made with apple cider vinegar, jalapeño, and garlic, they’re a bold, fridge-staple condiment from Glover Gardens.

This is a glorious recipe for pepper jelly, both beautiful and zestily tasty. Bonus track: a kitchen disaster story!

Pesto is a wonder condiment, and the Glover Gardens recipe features extra nuttiness with a combination of roasted mixed nuts along with fresh walnuts or pecans.

From Dijon in French food to bright yellow ballpark on an American hotdog… from sweet German mustard on a bratwurst to hot Chinese mustard on an eggroll or steamed dumpling… from English mustard on a ploughman’s lunch to whole-grain mustard on a charcuterie board — mustard is a Best Supporting Actor for foods.

A quick and easy recipe for cilantro pesto, with 26 ways to use it.

Pickles! Whether they’re hot, sweet, spicy, bread-and-butter, gherkin, relish, big dills or tiny cornichons, the pickle pucker is something I appreciate.

Chimichurri is a great sauce for fish, chicken, shrimp, steak, pork…you name it. It’s great as a dip for crudités. It’s a perfect condiment for a panini.

The smoked salmon pita with avocado-dill spread is the essence of summer, whether at a picnic or a ladies’ luncheon.

A Jazz-Fest inspired recipe: to soothe our lonesome-for-NOLA feelings, I made a Muffuletta Pasta Salad.

Slightly sweet with just a hint of heat, this tart cranberry relish is the perfect complement to rich holiday food.

Simple, bright and fresh, Pico de Gallo brings a liveliness to any dish it accompanies. And it doesn’t need a “quick mix”!

A super-simple salad dressing with a tangy kick that gets your taste buds to sit up and take notice.  

My colleague and friend Stephanie makes the most marvelous dip, and we pester her to bring a batch to us at least monthly.  It’s ‘formal’ name is Creamy Jalapeño Dip, but we mostly refer to it as Green Dip.  And sometimes, Crack Dip (because it’s addictive).…

Churrasco’s chimichurri sauce is sooooo good: foodie-worthy and simple to make.

My Aunt-Mom turned me on to this terrific and easy recipe for remoulade a few years ago. The recipe on the McCormick’s web site suggests serving it with boiled shrimp, which is how I first encountered it, but it is good in many, many other ways.

A pepper jelly slaw is born of a condiment compulsion.

Garnishes and condiments are a supporting cast that add color and texture and provide complementary or contrasting flavors that highlight the main dish and make it a star.

Sometimes we need a super-quick, super-easy side dish.  Here’s one you can make in 5 minutes, if you have Pico de Gallo on hand.  I make it when I’m serving a meal that already requires the brightness of fresh Pico.  The Grill-Meister says that Pico de…

I might be a Condiment-aholic.  I love-love-love condiments. Especially those with southwest flavors.  One of the simplest, oldest and best of the southwest condiments is salsa. I found a wonderful fresh salsa recipe years ago in a cookbook called Jane Butel’s Southwestern Kitchen, her Garden…