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Tartar Sauce

Once you learn how to make tartar sauce, you'll never buy it at the store again! This lightened-up version is super creamy, tangy, and delicious.

...for tartar sauce extra-tangy and creamy. These other key ingredients amp up the flavor even more: Lemon juice – It makes the sauce nice and bright. Capers and diced dill...

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Healthy Potato Salad

This healthy potato salad recipe is perfect for picnics and BBQs! A creamy, tangy dressing coats tender potatoes, fresh herbs, and crunchy veggies.

...flavor. A pinch of celery seed brings out the savory flavor even more. Radishes and red onion – For extra color and crunch. Capers – Many classic potato salad recipes...

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Olive Tapenade

This olive tapenade recipe has a delicious mix of fresh, salty, and briny flavors. Serve it with crackers or baguette for a simple summer appetizer!

...this season. Enjoy! Olive Tapenade Recipe Ingredients Traditional tapenade is made with anchovies in addition to olives and capers. To keep this recipe vegetarian, I skip the anchovies, but don’t...

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Easy Macaroni Salad

The BEST macaroni salad recipe! Filled with crisp veggies and fresh herbs, it's just as delicious as the classic version, but it's so much lighter.

...little sweetness. Capers – I swap them in for the traditional dill pickles! They give this salad a delicious briny flavor, but if you don’t have them on hand, diced...

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Roasted Cauliflower Steak

A bright, nutty topping and creamy arugula pesto amp up the flavor in this roasted cauliflower steak recipe. It's a simple, satisfying, and delicious meal!

...nutty and tender. To make them a meal, I serve them over a swoosh of arugula pesto and top them off with a quick garnish of herbs, capers, golden raisins,...

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Lemony Summer Squash Orecchiette

Make this simple weeknight pasta when you have a bounty of summer squash. With just 10 ingredients, it's fresh, bright & satisfying.

...large squeeze of lemon juice! Then, fold in the cooked pasta and a bit of the starchy pasta water. Finish it all with feta, capers, and a sprinkle of red...

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Vegan Egg Salad

This bright and briny vegan egg salad is just as good as the real thing! Made with turmeric, tofu, vegan mayo, and mustard, it's healthy and easy to make.

...the rich, creamy base of the dressing. Dijon mustard, capers, and lemon juice add bright, tangy, briny flavor. Garlic, chives, and fresh dill make it feel really fresh, and they...

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Homemade Caesar Dressing

This homemade Caesar dressing recipe will blow any store bought version out of the water. Made with just 7 ingredients, it's creamy, savory, and rich.

...it adds an extra punch of tangy flavor. Capers – With their salty, briny flavor, capers perfectly replace the anchovies and Worcestershire sauce. Along with the lemon juice and Dijon...

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12 Vegan Sandwiches to Pack for Lunch

These easy vegan sandwiches are just as good as any made with meat or cheese. Perfect for lunch, they're all fresh, healthy, and delicious.

...Egg Salad Recipe, but I actually prefer this vegan tofu sandwich! Turmeric gives it its egg-like color, vegan mayo makes it rich and creamy, and capers, chives, and dill make...

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Chickpea Salad Sandwich

This chickpea salad sandwich recipe is my vegan spin on a pan bagnat! Crunchy veggies, herbs, and olives fill it with bright and briny flavor.

...Components This chickpea salad sandwich starts with my favorite plant-based “tuna” salad. It’s briny and tangy from capers, Dijon mustard, and lemon juice. Instead of mayo, I add a bit...

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Chickpea Salad Wraps w/ Avocado Dill Sauce

This easy chickpea salad is my vegan version of a classic tuna salad. It's tangy & light, made with Dijon mustard, crunchy celery & cornichons.

...briny flavors (i.e. good Dijon mustard, capers, and cornichons) and finished with crunchy celery and scallions recreate that tuna salad taste to me. You could definitely make a great sandwich...

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Photograph of Jeanine Donofrio and Jack Mathews in their kitchen

Hello, we're Jeanine and Jack.

We love to eat, travel, cook, and eat some more! We create & photograph vegetarian recipes from our home in Chicago, while our shiba pups eat the kale stems that fall on the kitchen floor.