Homemade tartar sauce

[deluxestogie]

1. All Black olives are not created equally. Does the original recipe call for canned or cured black olives?
2. Sweet or dill pickles?
3. Yellow or Dijon mustard?
4. Dry or fresh dill weed?

Canned, pitted black olives seem to lend the right taste. Cured black olives can be overpowering.
I prefer garlic dill pickles, though I have used sweet relish in a pinch.
I use just enough yellow mustard to give the mixture a slightly yellowish color, but not enough to shout, "Mustard!"
I always have dried dill weed, which is what I use most often. Before I banned dill from may garden, I would use fresh.

The saltiness is controlled entirely with the quantities of capers, anchovy paste, olives and pickle.

I just wing this recipe every time I make it, readily adapting to whatever ingredients I do or don't have.

Bob

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

You should use my home cured olives.

 

[burge]

That all looks good. if I am using black olives its Unico that seem to be the best.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

That all looks good. if I am using black olives its Unico that seem to be the best.

. You should check out Spinelli's Italian Center Shop

 

[burge]

. You should check out Spinelli's Italian Center Shop

Here its Mercato but super expensive

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Here its Mercato but super expensive

Their produce and a lot of their canned goods are pretty reasonable. But sometimes you need to treat yourself.

 

[burge]

Me treating myself is Costco.

 

[tullius]

pfc: Sir, we're lost and surrounded by 17 guys named Horton.

sarnt: Stop calling me sir, son. We're in Canadia. Relax, be polite, and go get me a cup of coffee.

 

[deluxestogie]

@burge's first post in this thread captures the core idea. It's often silly to spend money purchasing something you can easily produce yourself. Granted, I haven't made my own mayo in years, but it's just egg and oil. You're stuck, when it comes to capers and anchovies, unless you live in a special place. I pickle my own cucumbers. @ChinaVoodoo does his own olives (I've never made olives). @GreenDragon has mastered his custom breading.

I enjoy hand-breaded fish and shrimp and mushrooms, but the cost of named fish species is 4 times that of anonymous fish--only to be mostly obscured by a heap of tartar sauce. And for me these days, the count of dishes, pots and utensils that will require subsequent cleanup often holds a veto. I rarely entertain a dinner guest. I feel as though my decision processes in food matters have regressed to back when I was a student: cheap, quick, but always tasty. (That reminds me. I haven't had tuna in cream of mushroom soup on toast--in a long time!)

Bob

 

[burge]

Has to be swift and cheap. Can't have it any other way.

 

[FmGrowit]

When my kids were younger, we took a trip to Chincoteague Virginia. After pulling into a service station due to some mechanical problems with the car, I noticed a sign on the wall. It said:
"Our motto is Good, Fast, and Cheap. Pick two, but you can't have the other.
Good and Fast..it won't be Cheap
Cheap and Good...it won't be Fast
Fast and Cheap...it wont be Good."

You get what you pay for.

 

[GreenDragon]

When my kids were younger, we took a trip to Chincoteague Virginia. After pulling into a service station due to some mechanical problems with the car, I noticed a sign on the wall. It said:
"Our motto is Good, Fast, and Cheap. Pick two, but you can't have the other.
Good and Fast..it won't be Cheap
Cheap and Good...it won't be Fast
Fast and Cheap...it wont be Good."

You get what you pay for.

One of my all time favorite quotes.
That and “you buy cheap, you buy twice”.

 

[deluxestogie]

That sounds awfully familiar. During the 1990s, NASA touted the motto, "Better, faster, cheaper." And of course, you must pick only two. They eventually figured that out.

Bob

 

[docpierce]

WTF. Now I'm starving.

 

[OldDinosaurWesH]

All this talk about tarter sauce is reminding me that I have some fish in the freezer. Sounds like a plan.

Wes H.

 

[FmGrowit]

That sounds awfully familiar. During the 1990s, NASA touted the motto, "Better, faster, cheaper." And of course, you must pick only two. They eventually figured that out.

Bob

Could be coincidence, but NASA Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center is on the last solid ground before you enter the salt march area before you get to Chincoteague. My kids were 6 and 8 at the time, so that would have been late 1990's. I wonder who borrowed the saying from whom.

 

[burge]

When my kids were younger, we took a trip to Chincoteague Virginia. After pulling into a service station due to some mechanical problems with the car, I noticed a sign on the wall. It said:
"Our motto is Good, Fast, and Cheap. Pick two, but you can't have the other.
Good and Fast..it won't be Cheap
Cheap and Good...it won't be Fast
Fast and Cheap...it wont be Good."

You get what you pay for.

Ya but your not from the Maritimes der boy. LOL

 

[FmGrowit]

Ya but your not from the Maritimes der boy. LOL

ummm, yeah, well, me Grandfather was born in Halifax, so I gots blood.

 

[docpierce]

I sent the wife the recipe and she mixed up a batch of the sauce. Very good indeed.

 

[burge]

ummm, yeah, well, me Grandfather was born in Halifax, so I gots blood.

Lol they say boy in Cape Breton with the accent sound like bye