Homemade Tartar Sauce and Homemade Costco Copycat: Make Your Own Monday #13

I am combining two "make your owns" this week, because I don't think either is enough on its own to be a post...but both are fun.



First of all, let me tell you something I have observed.  Tartar sauce seems to be different in different parts of the country.  In a very broad generalization, I will say that the East Coast likes it sweeter and the West Coast likes it dillier.  My husband was born and raised in the Seattle area and has a fond love for Ivar's.  It is their tartar sauce by which he judges all others.  Luckily for me, most of the grocery stores in the Puget Sound area sell it in jars.  So for the first 18 or so years of my marriage, I didn't have to worry about tartar sauce.  Now that I live in Arizona, however, I have (or had) a problem.  I should also note that The Good Guy puts tartar sauce on all fish, no matter how it is cooked.  I could make a beautiful baked fish in a sauce or grill a salmon in foil and he'd still desecrate it with tartar.  Feel my pain!





Homemade Tartar Sauce: 

1/2 cup mayonnaise (homemade here)

1/8 cup dill relish (homemade here)

1 tsp lemon juice

1/4 tsp salt

1/8 tsp pepper

Mix in a bowl and serve.  Refrigerate any leftovers.



Now for my Costco copycat recipe.  I love the spinach ravioli that they sell.  In fact, I would have had to declare a personal state of emergency if they stopped carrying them.  It's not the actual pasta that I love, it's the garlicy cheese and herbs that come in the little packets with the pasta.