Sauces for summer

Plus, three reasons to buy Costco tzatziki.

Sauces for Summer Good Sunday evening. Have you done your grocery shopping for the week yet? If your weekly run involves Costco, may I recommend a tub of their rather good yogurt-dill-and-cucumber-put-on-everything-tzatziki sauce? My husband's family was in town last weekend, and this turned into a quiet star of my feed-a-crowd game plan. I bought it just to put out with veggies as an easy dip, but we used it at least three more ways Hand salad: Do you know hand salad, the cool-girl way to serve salad? (I don't know if I'm a cool girl but I really love hand salad.) It's simple: Pull apart a head of baby romaine into individual leaves, then dollop a spoonful of tzatziki in each. Crack a little pepper over top to Make It Fancy and serve. No forks needed; just pick up and crunch. Super refreshing.  The easiest potato salad: I love a good potato salad made with tiny steamed new potatoes. To make it even easier, I quartered the little potatoes, microwaved them, then mixed them and a few halved cherry tomatoes with generous spoonfuls of the thick, cool tzatziki. People loved it.  Steak sauce!! Steak sauces lean hot and rich, but in summertime you can't beat room temperature steak, thin-sliced and medium-rare, with a cool swipe of tangy tzatziki. Of course, tzatziki can be found beyond Costco (and we have an excellent recipe for it here). But it's a good example of how one big tub of a good sauce can make your life easier and delicious in so many ways.    In fact, a good sauce can make all of summer cooking so easy — but there are so many options it can be overwhelming. We set ourselves the question: What are the essential sauces for right now? We landed on five, and here they are: This summer's take on ranch — an herby tahini ranch with all the herbs. (Very good on avocado toast, as Sara points out.) On the barbecue front, the winner this summer is blueberry BBQ sauce, a savory and smoky recipe from Andrea Mathis. If you're craving a pesto or chimichurri then this lemongrass cilantro sauce will satisfy you. For THE tomato sauce of the summer, Valeria Necchio draws from her Venetian family repertoire for an uncooked, marinated take on sugo di pomodoro fresco. And finally, our fifth essential sauce is Will Coleman's brilliant take on green goddess: Green Goddess Pesto Sauce.    While not officially part of this sauce essentials package, I also want to recommend Jesse's two-ingredient homemade Magic Shell — because doesn't ice cream also deserve the best sauce we can give it?    Happy saucing,  Faith FOLLOW FAITH SUMMER EATS     Air Fryer Zucchini Chips Are Also a Good Excuse for Tzatziki Super easy way to eat veggies AND dip. READ MORE     It's Oreo Icebox Cake Season! That's it. It's the season. Get on it. READ MORE     Garlic Salmon with Crispy Gnocchi and Asparagus This just looks so good, doesn't it? READ MORE     Red Velvet Waffles Vacation breakfast at its most fun.  READ MORE Follow Us Unsubscribe or Manage Your Preferences   View this email in your browser    To ensure delivery to your inbox please add newsletters@mail.apartmenttherapy.com to your address book.   Kitchn is a source of inspiration for a happier, healthier life in your kitchen. If we've inspired you, we may receive a share of purchases made through this email.   Apartment Therapy Media 270 Lafayette Street, Suite 1300 New York, NY 10012   ABOUT | CONTACT US | PRIVACY POLICY | TERMS OF USE