Salad dressings are endlessly customizable, but if you're looking to kick it up a notch, consider the addition of the ever-trusty caper juice.

Capers. Origin: Dried, pickled flower buds commonly grown in the Mediterranean and parts of Asia and Australia Often used in: Creamy or lemony pastas, fatty dishes, salads, or as a garnish; very ...

Even if you keep capers in your pantry solely for pairing with shrimp scampi, you can still easily work through a jar of them. The little buds work well with all kinds of shrimp scampi beyond your ...

Pickled nasturtium buds . On the left, young nasturtium seeds are easy to see and pick. On the right, the buds look very different but produce better capers, in my opinion. Credit: Amanda Blum.

Capers come from a perennial shrub that can burst with showy flowers of pinkish white. But flowers are a sign of inattention -- the small gray delicacies we know as capers are flower buds ...