Condiment/Preserve

Baba Ghanoush

Excerpted from More Vegetables, Please!

This is a puréed and often-roasted eggplant dish that is popular in Middle Eastern cooking. Use it as a dip for veggies and/or toasted pita bread. Also try spreading it on toasted whole-grain bread or in a wrap and then adding grated carrots, fresh seasonal greens, and a nice thick slice of a fresh tomato, if it is summer, for a healthy sandwich. If it’s winter, top slices of steamed or roasted butternut squash with baba ghanoush and then sprinkle on a little Parmesan. You'll love it.

Buttery Brown Sugar Syrup

The perfect drizzle for your Banana Split Pancakes.

Sesame-Roasted Potatoes with Cucumber Dip

Roasting little potatoes makes them taste sweeter than boiled potatoes. No forks are necessary because you can use toothpicks to dip your potatoes into the yogurt cucumber dip.

Meat and Spinach Dip

Submitted by Bryan Parker, Kelowna, BC; Recipe tested by Deloralie Brown

Next time you're entertaining, wow your guests with this restaurant style dip, baked hot from your oven. Serve with toasted nacho chips, warm pita slices or crusty bread.

Plank-Roasted Marrowbones

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Full of protein and melt in your mouth goodness, this is one treat that tastes much better then it sounds.

Fire-Roasted Hickory-Planked BBQ Sauce

This is a great all-purpose BBQ sauce. The initial work of smoking the ingredients will give the sauce a natural smoke flavor that can be added to ribs, steaks, burgers, salmon and chops when time doesn't permit plank grilling.