Potato, Corn & Pepper Skillet with Pancetta

This potato, corn, and pepper skillet with pancetta is such a wonderful side dish for serving with your favorite holiday roast beef, pork tenderloin, ribs, steak, roasted chicken, and fish filet, just to name a few. 

This skillet side dish is so easy to make and comes together in just about a half an hour. It's loaded with fresh flavors and you can even make it in advance and reheat it in the same skillet. Plus, you can prepare it on your stovetop, leaving your oven free for roasts, desserts, appetizers, and casseroles. 

Mexican Cinnamon Cookies (Polvorones de Canela)

These Mexican Cinnamon Cookies are a shortbread cookie both filled with cinnamon and coated in cinnamon sugar. You won't be able to stop at just one cookie. 

If you have a jar of these cookies in your house, they will call your name. Fair warning. They are super crumbly, sweet, and just small enough for an excuse to have "just one more."

Vanilla Cookies with Fudge Filling

These vanilla cookies with fudge filling are an easy to make tasty dessert. Take them to your next cookie exchange and they will be the hit of the party. 

You can also make these cookies to keep for snacking at home or for an after-school treat. Vanilla and chocolate are an all-time favorite flavor combination that just about everyone loves. Pair these with peppermint sandwich cookies or custard cream sandwich cookies for serving at gatherings. 

Aloo Paratha (Indian Spicy Potato Bread) Recipe

Aloo Paratha is a flaky Indian flatbread (paratha) stuffed with spicy potatoes (aloo). It's a wonderful breakfast bread that you can buy at roadside stands and eateries along northern Indian highways. 

Aloo paratha are also made in Indian households as part of a hearty Punjabi-style breakfast.

Summer Squash and Fettuccine

Tossing together seared strips of summer squash, including zucchini and yellow squash, with a creamy and cheesy sauce and fettuccine is an easy and quick way to put together a wonderful pasta dish. 

This pasta dish is so easy! You don't need a lot of pans either. You just combine some grilled zucchini and summer squash with freshly cooked fettucchine with Parmigiano-Regiano, heavy cream, and garlic, plus a little salt and pepper. Top it with a little Italian parsley and you have an amazing pasta dish. 

Pompe Á L'Huile - Provençal Olive Oil Brioche

This Pompe Á L'Huile, an olive oil brioche, is a soft and fluffy orange scented bread. It's a traditional Christmas bread from Provence, but it's so good that there's no reason you can't enjoy this any time of year. 

This month, the Bread Baking Babes are making an olive oil brioche. Pompe Á L'Huile actually means "oil pump." It got its name from when olive oil producers in Provence would add flour to their oil vats at the end of the season to absorb the last of the olive oil. They then took the oiled flour to the community baker, who would create a version of this bread. 

Wicked Witch Cones

These Wicked Witch Cones are a fun project you can do with kids. I should probably put the word wicked in quotes because these cones don't look at all wicked to me!

I made these wicked witch cones with ice cream, so it took a little while to make these because I had to keep returning them to the freezer to keep them from melting. I guess I could have made "melting witch" cones!