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Cooking with cannabis is a fat substitution — you swap butter for cannabutter and the rest is ordinary cooking. So every recipe here stores the fat it needs and the dose it targets, and works out the split once it knows how strong your oil is.

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17 recipes matching “black pepper

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Golden milk

Warm spiced milk with turmeric and black pepper. Made in one pan in five minutes, with nothing hot enough to hurt the infusion.

Contains black pepper

Written for

5 mgper mug

2 mugs · 8 min

SauceLowNo cookNo smell

Basil pesto

Made in a food processor, no heat at all. Keeps a week in the fridge and doses pasta, eggs or bread by the spoonful.

Contains salt and black pepper

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

8 servings · 10 min

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Biscuits and sausage gravy

Buttermilk biscuits under a peppery milk gravy built on sausage drippings. The gravy thickens on the stove with plain fat, and the infused butter is stirred in at the end off the heat.

Contains coarse black pepper

Written for

5 mgper plate

6 plates · 50 min

SauceLowNo cookNo smell

Buttermilk ranch dressing

Mayonnaise, buttermilk and soft herbs whisked into a pourable dressing. Because it is spooned onto an individual plate, each person decides their own serving, which is the most forgiving arrangement there is.

Contains salt and black pepper

Written for

2.5 mgper tablespoon

24 tablespoons · 10 min

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Creamy tomato soup

Canned tomatoes cooked down with onion and garlic, blended smooth, then finished with cream and a slug of olive oil once the pot is off the burner. Ladling measured bowls is what keeps the servings honest.

Contains salt and black pepper

Written for

5 mgper bowl

6 bowls · 55 min

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Fettuccine alfredo

Butter, parmesan and starchy pasta water beaten into a sauce that clings to the noodles. Heat is the enemy: too hot and the emulsion splits into grease and grit, stranding most of the dose in the oil.

Contains black pepper

Written for

5 mgper plate

4 plates · 22 min

SideLow

Garlic butter green beans

Blanched until they still snap, then tossed in infused butter off the heat. A side dish that carries a light dose for a table where not everyone wants a brownie.

Contains salt and black pepper

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

6 servings · 15 min

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Garlic herb butter pasta

A ten-minute emulsified butter sauce built in the pan with pasta water. Dinner that happens to be dosed, rather than a dessert pretending to be dinner.

Contains salt and black pepper

Written for

5 mgper plate

4 plates · 17 min

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Herb butter salmon

Roasted salmon finished with a compound butter that melts over the top. The butter never sees the oven, which makes this one of the most potency-efficient ways to dose a dinner.

Contains olive oil, salt and black pepper

Written for

5 mgper fillet

4 fillets · 22 min

SauceLowNo cookNo smell

Lemon garlic vinaigrette

A three-to-one vinaigrette that doses a salad by the spoonful. Keeps a week in the fridge and lets everyone at the table pour their own.

Contains salt and black pepper

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

8 servings · 5 min

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Marinara sauce

A long-simmered tomato sauce with the oil stirred in at the very end. Freeze it in portions and it doses pasta, eggs or pizza for a month.

Contains salt and black pepper

Written for

5 mgper serving

8 servings · 55 min

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Mushroom risotto

The butter goes in at the end, off the heat, beaten hard into the rice. That final step is a technique risotto has always used, and it happens to be ideal for an infusion.

Contains salt and black pepper

Written for

5 mgper serving

4 servings · 50 min

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Shakshuka

Eggs poached in a spiced tomato sauce. The infused oil is stirred in off the heat at the end rather than used to build the sofrito, which is the difference between keeping your dose and simmering it away.

Contains red bell pepper, salt and black pepper

Written for

5 mgper serving

4 servings · 40 min

AppetizerLow

Spinach artichoke dip

A hot, savory dip for a table where nobody wants dessert. The infused oil is folded in before it goes to the oven and the bake is short and gentle.

Contains salt, black pepper and chili flakes

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

8 servings · 37 min

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Stovetop mac and cheese

A roux-thickened macaroni finished off the burner. The infused butter goes in last, once the pan has stopped steaming, because a hot pan both wastes potency and turns melted cheddar grainy.

Contains salt and black pepper

Written for

5 mgper bowl

6 bowls · 35 min

SideLow

Sweet potato fries

Roasted hot in plain oil, tossed in infused oil after. Roasting temperature is about twice what an infusion tolerates, so the dose goes on at the end.

Contains salt and black pepper

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

4 servings · 40 min

AppetizerLowNo cookNo smell

Whipped feta dip

Salty, thick and ready in five minutes. The oil goes in last and gets whipped right through, which is what keeps the dose even across a shared bowl.

Contains black pepper

Written for

2.5 mgper serving

6 servings · 10 min