Adventures in cooking and baking.
This tangerine ricotta cake is a dessert that you can bake ahead. It is actually better and more moist on the second or third day.
I love the moistness that ricotta brings to desserts. Some of my favorites include blueberry lemon ricotta tea cake, ricotta chocolate chip cookies, and tangerine ricotta cookies. Of course, I love it for making savory dishes such as lasagna or breakfast tomato and ricotta toast.
These chicken pot pies are pure comfort food and totally tasty. They are a wonderful "go-to" meal for family gatherings and dinner parties.
I have made this recipe quite a few times. Everytime I serve these chicken pot pies, those at the table quickly earn memberships to the "clean plate club."
The flavors in this corn and edamame salad go together so deliciously, and the dressing has become one of my new favorites.
This salad is so colorful and the flavor is so bright. With an array of crunchy vegetables and a dressing that includes hot sauce, this salad stands out on its own.
These kung pao noodles are easy to make and loaded with flavor. The sauce, flavored with seasoned rice vinegar, soy sauce, and sesame oil, adds a sweet and tangy flavor to the noodles.
These noodles are also loaded with tasty and crunchy vegetables, along with a sprinkling of roasted peanuts.
I love the flavor of this cracked wheat and bran bread. It has a great whole wheat flavor that is balanced by bread flour. The cracked wheat and wheat bran add all of the benefits of whole wheat. This is an excellent tasting and performing whole wheat bread recipe.
Originally, I made this bread to use an ingredient I found in my freezer. Little did I know how delicious this bread would be.
This parsnip and leek soup gets its wonderful flavor from cumin and mustard seeds that you toast in hot oil with garlic. You stir it into this soup just before serving.
I really loved the flavor the fried garlic, mustard seeds, and cumin seeds added at the end. If you make this soup, don't skip this step. The technique for adding the spices is an Indian term called "tarka." The oil draws out the flavor but leaves the whole spices intact to add texture to the dish.
These chocolate covered sandwich cookies with dulce de leche have roots in Argentina, where soft sandwich cookies filled with dulce de leche are a popular sweet treat.
These cookies are similar to my orange-scented alfajores, but with a chocolate ganache coating. In addition, these cookies include a lot of whole wheat flour and are only lightly sweet to counteract the dulce de leche and the ganache.
