Try this fresh and flavorful salsa as a side dish, a tasty topping to your tacos, or simply scoop it up with some tortilla chips for a delicious snack.

Yield: 2 cups (serving size: about 1/4 cup)

This fresh recipe embraces summer and ramps up the flavor! Pico de Gallo is best when made the day you plan to serve it. Prepare it early the morning of the party.

Makes 3 cups (serving size: 1/2 cup)

Nutritional information: 83 calories (0.0% from fat) 6.9g fat, 0.9g saturated fat, 4.5g monounsaturated fat, 0.9g polyunsaturated fat, 1.2g protein, 6g carbohydrate, 2.8g fiber, 0mg cholesterol, 0.4mg iron, 5.7mg sodium, and 12mg calcium.

This isn’t a real teriyaki sauce, but it’s definitely inspired by one. Teriyaki sauce is one of those things that is really easy to make at home successfully, so if you’ve been going without or buying expensive bottles of the stuff, you can stop! It literally has three ingredients – soy sauce, sugar, and mirin – but you can obviously get creative with it if you like.

I added clementine zest and juice to my teriyaki sauce. I love the sweetness and the bright citrus note it adds. I think any citrus you have would work here, and you can even leave it out altogether: just substitute water for the juice and add a little more sugar if you like.

Winter is high season for clementines. If you haven’t already picked up one of those enticing wooden crates full of them at the supermarket, I encourage you to do so. They are sweet, seedless, easy to peel, and all-around amazing. You will finish the entire crate, I promise you. And if not, now you have a recipe to use some of them in.

If you like, add some sesame oil, or garlic, or ginger to the sauce. I love it how it is, and appreciate its simplicity, but this sauce can be used more as a base sauce you can embellish any which way you like.