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White sauce—or bechamel, if you use its French name—is one of the five mother sauces taught in culinary schools. Its simplicity makes it a blank canvas for creativity; once you’ve mastered it, you can ...

I’ve never been one for gravy -- in the worst cases, it’s lumpy and tastes of uncooked flour; in the best cases, it’s viscous and generic. I’m a sauce girl. Sauces are elegant, clean, smart and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Westend61 via Getty Images Pasta is a family favorite weeknight meal because it is so fast to make, and it always tastes great.

Oscar Wilde once wrote, “the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce.” It was a characteristically pithy statement that could very easily have been uttered by Antonin Careme as well. But as ...

Good morning. Genevieve Ko, Yewande Komolafe, Eric Kim and Melissa Clark teamed up this week to produce an incredible collection of 20 sauces (above) to make and keep in your refrigerator all summer ...

You're going to want to use it on everything.

If you’re looking for a new way to do pasta, try one of Food Network star Giada De Laurentiis‘ easy-to-make, flavorful, homemade pasta sauces. From the chef’s Basic Parmesan Pomodoro to her Simple ...

May we have a show of hands: Who thinks chocolate is the best flavor in the dessert world? Now, who thinks caramel is the best? Not as many hands in the air, but mine is one of them. While chocolate ...