Very Good Recipes of Sauce from Out of the Ordinary
There are 35 Sauce recipes on the blog Out of the Ordinary. (1278 on all the blogs)
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Soba noodles with potatoes, black beans and spinach in red pepper sauce
By Out of the Ordinary
05/17/13 20:06
Each day on our way to school, Isaac and I pass a house that half-burned down a few years ago at Christmastime. Apparently it will be torn down before too long, but now it’s oddly beautiful with its charred, inside-out … Continue reading →
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Perciatelli pasta with brothy asparagus, roasted pepper & olive sauce
By Out of the Ordinary
05/13/13 22:13
Well, I survived another mother’s day lunch shift as a waitress. Nine hours with no break at all, literally not one second to sit down. I’ll pause for a moment so that you can shed a small tear for my … Continue reading →
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Creamy vegan spinach & herb sauce
By Out of the Ordinary
04/21/13 16:44
My favorite song at the moment is that of the white throated sparrow. It’s a simple little song consisting of four tones; apparently the second is a whole note lower than the first, and it ends a minor third below … Continue reading →
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Carrots and cauliflower in carrot-ginger-lemon sauce with cashews
By Out of the Ordinary
04/13/13 16:41
It’s Saturday again, and you know what that means! It’s story time! Here’s your picture for the week. Who is this fellow, and how did he end up at Joe’s in 1954? As ever, my story is after the jump, … Continue reading →
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Roasted butternut farro balls and rosemary walnut tarator sauce
By Out of the Ordinary
03/22/13 16:57
It’s a very slow, cold spring. Everybody is upset by it, everybody is complaining bitterly, everybody is angry with that stupid lying groundhog. Everybody except me. It’s very strange, but I don’t mind. I’m not quite through hibernating yet. I … Continue...
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Roasted cauliflower, potatoes and butterbeans in spicy red pepper – olive sauce
By Out of the Ordinary
03/20/13 17:33
When a child tells a joke (my child, at any rate) he always explains it. He always adds a little, “do you see what I did there?” (Except when they tell knock knock jokes, of course – not because they … Continue reading →
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Raggedy pasta filled with spinach, ricotta, artichoke hearts topped with roasted red pepper pine nut sauce
By Out of the Ordinary
03/03/13 16:51
In a scandalous act of shocking laziness, I’m going to plagiarize myself for today’s post. (I have to get to work soon!) This appeared in the Guardian this week, I wrote it! So I’m just going to repeat myself here, … Continue reading →
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Broccoli and chickpeas in coconut curry sauce
By Out of the Ordinary
02/08/13 20:26
Well! I’ve finally finished Brothers Karamazov, and to celebrate we’re going to have a party. I sent Malcolm to the store and I told him to tell the shopkeeper that Claire sends her greetings, “and will be there directly…. But … Continue reading →
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Roasted mushroom “steaks” with walnut black truffle sauce
By Out of the Ordinary
02/03/13 16:56
I’ve been thinking a lot about competition, lately. Mostly from watching my boys play basketball, I guess. I want them to do well, I want them to want to do well, I want them to care, but I don’t want … Continue reading →
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Curried chickpeas and cauliflower in spicy rich tomato sauce
By Out of the Ordinary
01/29/13 20:46
I’ve been very fascinated by three words, lately, and I’m going to tell you why. These words are poignant, piquante, and pungent. Why do I love them? I love them because they teeter so wonderfully on the edge! They hover … Continue reading →
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Kale and black beans in curried pumpkin sauce with pumpkinseed-arugula pesto
By Out of the Ordinary
01/08/13 19:25
This meal reminds me of something I used to make back in my bachelorette days. Can of pumpkin purée, can of chickpeas, loads of broccoli. It was quick, easy, cheap and not very fattening at all. In those days, I … Continue reading →
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Roasted butternut, kale, black bean and goat cheese enchiladas with a roasted red pepper/pecan sauce
By Out of the Ordinary
12/11/12 21:58
Here at The Ordinary we have an institute entirely devoted to the study of time passing. We had thought, up until a few months ago, that we were mere moments away from complete understanding. Lately, however, our grasp is slipping, … Continue reading →...
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Butternut squash steaks with port wine/portobella/sage sauce and Hash browns with pistachios
By Out of the Ordinary
12/04/12 19:34
Malcolm is home sick from school, and I’m not feeling 100% myself. We’re having such a nice day! We had a lot of big plans, but we’re not doing any of them. Mostly, we’re sitting on the couch, glad to … Continue reading →
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Banana-chocolate chip-cranberry sauce cake
By Out of the Ordinary
11/21/12 21:15
Hello, and welcome to another installment of “Claire clumsily paraphrases wikipedia in an attempt to share an artist that she loves.” David recently purchased a many-volume set of Memphis Minnie CDs. So much good music! She just kills me. She, … Continue...
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Savory sweet potato, turnip and pecan galette with smoked gouda and cranberry sauce
By Out of the Ordinary
11/13/12 19:42
During the power outage (is she still going on about that? yes, but I’m almost done) it sometimes seemed to me that Malcolm has enough energy and Isaac is bright enough to light up the whole town. Monday night, the … Continue reading →
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Bok choy and black beans simmered in tomato coconut sauce
By Out of the Ordinary
10/10/12 20:22
I’ve been thinking about my post yesterday, in which I suggested that everybody can be creative all the time no matter what their job or financial status. I may have seemed to imply that, according to my slightly skewed definition … Continue reading →
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Almond tarragon sauce
By Out of the Ordinary
10/06/12 17:47
Yesterday we had a rare day off, all together, and it was the only sunny day in recent memory. So we went for a hike in the woods. It felt good to clear the cobwebs and feel the sun on … Continue reading →
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Grilled tomato and red pepper sauce
By Out of the Ordinary
09/25/12 18:36
Here at The Ordinary’s obvious observation department, we have determined that sunshine feels good. These chilly mornings, when Isaac and I walk to school, we head to the sunny side of the street. When he doesn’t have pockets, he’ll put … Continue reading...
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Fried green tomato pakoras and cilantro, tamarind, almond sauce
By Out of the Ordinary
09/11/12 17:50
September 11, 2001 was a perfect golden day, just like today. We had just moved to the town we now live in from Boston. It felt like coming home. I felt as glowingly hopeful as the weather. And then, of … Continue reading →
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Roasted eggplant stacked with french lentils & chard and Malcolm’s spicy sauce and Isaac’s carrots & capers
By Out of the Ordinary
08/29/12 21:31
Here at The Ordinary, we’ve developed a new secret serum to make your cares and worries melt away. After a great deal of research that involved many bottles of wine, a few dark-and-stormy-mojitoes (that’s rum, ginger beer, mint and lime), … Continue reading...
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