Sauces of Inspiration

A great sauce has the ability to transform even the humblest ingredients, to elevate the everyday to the sublime . But a great sauce does not have to be complicated. Gone are the days when sauce meant mainly a concoction based on butter, flour, and reduced stock. Celebrate a new generation of sauces that are simple to whip up and rely on fresh and healthy ingredients such as nuts, yogurt, and vegetables. Secret Sauces gives you an arsenal of "mother" sauces that fit today''s kitchen and are infinitely adaptable. Each one can be made in advance and then customized to enliven different meals throughout the week. With every sauce comes a recipe for a full finished dish that''s an ideal showcase, followed by many ideas for other uses. Roasted Sweet Potato Wedges come alive drizzled with Bengali Spiced Yogurt . Seared Red Snapper rises to a new level with Grilled Pineapple and Chipotle Salsa . Coconut Lemongrass Cream finishes off Fruit Kebabs. Aimed at the home cook, Secret Sauces removes the intimidation of traditional sauces and makes sauces approachable for everyone. Inspired by cuisines from around the world, these sauces bring a new level of excitement to any meal. Plus, they deliver maximum flavour with a minimum of effort.

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Elevate everyday dishes with minimum effort. Sauces of Inspiration is a collection of 65 modern sauces with recipe pairing, as well as marinades, dressings, dips, gravies, salsas, and curries.

Auteur

A 2003 graduate of the Institute of Culinary Education, Vanessa was an associate food editor at Ladies Home Journal and has developed recipes for Blue Dot Living, Ladies Home Journal, Real Simple, All You, Health, Cooking Light, and Hannaford's Fresh among others.

She has also worked as a food stylist for television, video, editorial and books, including Procrastibaking, Real Maine Food, the Apple Cookbook, and Berries, as well as for national brands such as Al Fresco, Perdue, Barney Butter, Ninja Kitchen, and Coleman's. She was a long-time culinary instructor at the Stonewall Kitchen Headquarters in York, Maine.
Her cookbooks include Warm Your Bones and Eat Cool, which received positive reviews from the New York Times, Vogue.com, and Parade magazine. Additionally, her first book, Secret Sauces, has been translated to Spanish, Italian, and Russian.

Vanessa has appeared on television (Hallmark Channel's Home and Family), radio/podcasts (All of It on WNYC; Food Schmooze with Faith Middleton on NPR) and virtual cookbook events (Cookbooks with Virginia with Virginia Willis) among others.

Vanessa also holds a micro degree in horticulture. She lives with her family in Portland, Maine. She can be found online at vanessaseder.com and Instagram @vanessa_seder_eats.

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Elevate everyday dishes with minimum effort. Sauces of Inspiration is a collection of 65 modern sauces with recipe pairing, as well as marinades, dressings, dips, gravies, salsas, and curries.