1.   Add a generous splash of red wine, rosemary and coriander, and the sauce base becomes a terrific herby marinade for butterflied leg of lamb.

2.   Corn and black bean relishes would make good sauce bases, too.

3.   Later, he moved on to making stocks and sauce bases.

4.   My sauce base is nothing more than a blend of soy sauce, garlic and ginger.

5.   My solution was to cook almost everything on the grill, and to begin with a simple sauce base that I could vary with little effort.