The secret to Dad’s home cooked meals is… the sauce. It all starts with the sauce — and learning the basics to one sauce can branch out into more complex sauces. So use this page as your go to for sauce generation and better tasting food.
Gravy may not seem like a sauce – but it’s every bit a sauce, in all but name…
‘One of Dad’s specialties is making damn good sauces…’
‘A true WDC favourite here. We have received packets of pre made ranch powder from America for years. But now Dad has shared how to make it yourself!’
‘Dad’s finally shared the recipe for his chipotle sauce!’
Stock is the fundamental building block in developing flavour in your cooking…
Find all of Dad's recipes that are cooked in a yummy sauce below.'
Venison is a rich, lean, healthy and very tasty meat. A small haunch cooks very quickly and is a great alternative to beef.
Pete always liked my Asian-flavoured sweet glazed ham. So here is a version based on five-spice flavourings.
A revived British classic
With this bangers and mash recipe, the sausages and potatoes are replaced with chorizo and seasonal butternut squash mash and the gravy is replaced with a Spanish pepper sauce.
These are possibly the poshest tinned peaches you will ever eat. They’re not only delicious, they’re beautiful.
Inspired by Franco Manca’s merguez sausage starters, I made my own merguez, but as a meatball.
One of a series of easy and flavoursome half hour family recipes using 10 ingredients.
Dad’s Vietnamese summer rolls with nuoc cham dipping sauce is a must learn. A tasty salad in a roll just waiting to be dipped in a beautiful nuoc cham!
Chermoula is a North African marinade and sauce. It tastes great and is very versatile – like a spicy salsa verde that can be used for roasting any fish and white meat.
Food-for-free and foraging is the way. A diverse recipe to make your own rosehip syrup. Full of vitamins and goodness, try with yogurt or even rice pudding.
‘Enjoy steak for cheaper, have a go at Dad’s delicious BBQ flank steak!’
‘With all the Mediterranean weather we are experiencing recently – what better time to serve up a fresh al fresco seafood pasta.’
‘Summer is here! Time to go to your local butchers, pick up some good meat and fire up the BBQ! Try out dad’s tasty Caribbean Jerk marinade with a yummy mango and pineapple relish!’
‘The sauce is amazing! Any recipe with a sauce from WDC you need to try! But, this one is a little trickier, so cook it as a show stopper for friends or family you want to impress!’
‘Arancini balls inspired by our favourite Italian crime show, Inspector Montalbano!’
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