Adventures in cooking and baking.
This stir-fried cilantro with bean sprouts and shrimp takes just minutes to make, and the results are fresh and flavorful.
This stir-fry is amazing. It is a vegetable dish with about 8 ounces of small shrimp. The only seasonings you will need are fresh ginger and garlic, plus a little salt and sugar.
This Asian Pear Slaw is a refreshing and light make-ahead salad that stays crunchy and sweet in the fridge until you are ready to serve it.
This Asian pear salad is wonderful as a side dish to meats, fried chicken, and barbecue fare. It's so refreshing.
These pancakes with maple honey syrup are a copycat of the ones people line up for at the Golden Diner in New York City's Chinatown. They are big and fluffy and topped with a fruit compote, maple honey butter, and smothered in a maple honey syrup.
These pancakes are made with a yeasted batter and are cooked in individual skillets. They are so thick that they are finished in the oven so that they are cooked all the way through. The pancakes are tall like Japanese pancakes, but a little more sturdy.
This green chile chicken enchilada bake is an easy and delicious way to capture the flavors and textures of enchiladas without having to roll the tortillas. It's more like a chicken enchilada casserole.
This green chile chicken enchilada bake includes stacked corn tortillas layered with chichen, cheese, and sauce, similar to a lasagna.
This fresh strawberry cake is perfect for whenever you have a craving for something simple and sweet. It's great for a midmorning or afternoon snack.
I will admit that both my husband and I enjoyed it for breakfast a couple of days in a row and I don't feel guilty. After all, it's filled with fresh strawberries.
This chocolate marble pound cake is a sweet way to say hello to spring by pairing the flavor of raspberries with the chocolate. The hint of raspberry is a wonderful complement to the chocolate.
This cake gets its raspberry flavor from raspberry jam. You add some to the vanilla batter and brush the finished cake with a thin layer of the jam before glazing it with a chocolate ganache.
Welcome spring with these bow tie cookies with strawberry jam. They are little poppable tasty treats. Everyone will be eating these one after another after another.
These bow tie cookies are tiny little bundles of cream cheese dough filled with strawberry jam and dusted with confectioners' sugar. They are the perfect size for sharing too. In the Midwest, they are called kolaczki.
