Adventures in cooking and baking.
These cream cheese biscuits are super soft and a little bit cake-like. They're wonderful fresh from the oven and spread with melty butter.
These biscuits are pretty special because they include cream cheese, they are extra soft, and can actually be made in advance and reheated.
Membrillo is a sweet paste that can be cut into little squares and served as an appetizer on a slice of Manchego cheese. You could also serve it with the Manchego on crackers or Spanish-style chorizo.
Membrillo is made from the quince fruit. The quince is cooked down and combined with lemon juice and sugar to create a sweet fragrant paste. The mixture of the quince, sugar, lemon, and sugar thickens naturally because the quince is naturally very high in pectin. It's a popular appetizer in Spain, especially around the holidays.
If you are looking for a sweet potato side dish for the holidays (or anytime), try this sweet potato and leek gratin. It's a wonderful savory dish with unexpected savory flavors.
This casserole, with a combination of sweet potatoes, Russet/Idaho potatoes, leeks, and pancetta is a fabulous side dish for any poultry, seafood, or meat main dish. Leftovers are great for lunch as a main dish with a salad.
These chocolate mint whoopie pies, with fluffy peppermint buttercream sandwiched between two rounded layers of soft dark chocolate cake, are the perfect combination of flavors.
With the deep chocolate flavor of the cake and the cool peppermint flavor of the buttercream, there's a good chance that these whoopie pies will become one of your family's favorite desserts.
This winter squash gratin is a wonderful side dish for your holiday dinner. It is also great as a main dish, served with a salad, for a light lunch or dinner.
With a base of honeynut squash mixed with rice, Parmesan cheese, and eggs, and a topping of herby and garlicky breadcrumbs, this winter squash gratin is super savory and totally flavorful. It's a tasty break from the usual sweeter winter squash side dishes.
This beef and sweet potato stir-fry is really simple to make and easy to whip up on a week night.
If you marinate the beef in the morning, you can create this dinner in less than 20 minutes. No rice required, and it's nutritious!
These lemon pomegranate muffins take advantage of the the abundance of the bright, red, and flavorful pomegranates that are available right now.
These muffins begin with a tender, sweet, buttery, and lemony crumb filled with pomegranate arils and poppy seeds and are topped with a crumbly poppy seed streusel.
