Hello and welcome to this thing we’re doing where we help you figure out what you’re gonna put in your mouth this week. Some of these are recipes we’ve tried, some of these are recipes we’re looking forward to trying, all of them are fucking delicious. Tell us what you want to put in your piehole or suggest your own recipes, and we’ll talk about which things we made, which things we loved, and which things have changed us irreversibly as people. Last week, we gave you a sleigh full of holiday cookie recipes.
Capers are among my favorite foods, and I always have a jar of these little guys in my fridge. Capers are pickled buds from the caper bush and come in two varieties: vinegar packed and salt packed. I admit I have only tried the vinegar variety, but only because the salt ones require a pre-soaking situation, and I’m not about that life. I hope this accumulation of caper recipes will ignite or otherwise invigorate your love for capers, or at the very least give you an excuse to make a lot of detective puns in the kitchen.
1. Mediterranean Lentil Salad
via Bev Cooks
2. Roasted Shrimp Po Boy Sandwich with Greek Yogurt Coleslaw & Remoulade Sauce
3. Greek Pasta Salad
via Foodie Crush
4. Roasted Vegetables with Caper Vinaigrette
via Food 52
5. Roasted Potatoes with Lemon and Capers
via Cafe Johnsonia
6. Baked Feta Cheese with Sundried Tomato and Capers
via Food 52
7. Sole Piccata
via Simply Recipes
8. Salmon with Lemon, Capers and Rosemary
via Food Network
9. Braised Greens and Garlicky Pasta
10. Cherry Tomato and Caper Spaghetti
via BBC Good Food
11. Braised Chicken with Capers and Parsley
via Bon Appetit
12. Lemon Basil Chicken with Capers
13. Pasta Puttanesca
via Simply Recipes
14. Scallops with Caper and Brown Butter Sauce
via My Recipes
15. Grilled Mackerel with Tomato, Fennel and Capers
via Chow
16. Spaghetti with Olives and Crispy Capers
via Woman and Home
17. Roasted Lemon-Parmesan Cauliflower with Capers
via Eating Well
18. Sauteed Chickpea Salad with Roasted Red Peppers, Capers, Mint, and Sumac
via Kalyn’s Kitchen
19. Sautéed Kale with Garlic, Shallots, and Capers
via Epicurious
20. Zucchini Noodles with Caper Olive Sauce and Tomatoes
21. Beef Tenderloin with Cornichon-Caper Herb Sauce
via Fine Cooking
22. Italian Salsa Verde
via Food 52
I fucking love capers. Bookmarked.
Also: good old chicken piccata. The sole version sounds good, but something about how crispy the little flattened out chicken bits get is just really hard to beat.
Also also: PUT THEM ON PIZZA. YOU’RE WELCOME.
YESSSS. The first time I put capers on pizza was a very important moment for me.
Thank goodness for this as my wife has just found THREE jars of them……
Wonder if you could put them in martini as an olive substitute……..
I’m thinking yes, that would be amazing.
not to mention
Not to mention capers, smoked salmon and cream cheese on just about anything.