Adventures in cooking and baking.
This Tomato and Corn Chipotle Salsa is so easy to make and is perfect as a cocktail hour appetizer at the end of a hot summer day. The salsa is both smoky and spicy, and is wonderful with barbecue or carne asada.
Combine fresh tomatoes, corn, and some pureed chiles in adobo into a quick and easy salsa at a moment's notice.
Lavash Bread with Spinach, Tomatoes, Olives, and Fontina topped with a sprinkling of Parmesan Cheese - an Armenian-style flatbread that, with the toppings, makes a light, easy, and nutritious meal.
This spinach and cheese lavash is like a very thin crust pizza that is extra crispy and crunchy. The combination of the spinach with the cheese, tomatoes, and olives is so flavorful too.
These sweet potato muffins are loaded with pecans and topped with a cinnamon sugar coating.
These muffins are slightly sweet, cinnamon-y, and super moist, especially if you use the red-orange variety of sweet potato.
Spaccatini rolls are lean crusty Italian buns that have a split down the middle. While the only ingredients are flour, water, salt, and yeast, they are totally flavorful from the overnight rise.
These spaccatini rolls are wonderful with a salad, soup, or a pasta dish, just as I imagine they might be enjoyed in Italy.
This salad, with Chinese egg noodles, sliced pork tenderloin, and red bell peppers is hearty enough for lunch or a summer dinner.
This salad is tossed with a vinaigrette of oil, sherry vinegar, soy sauce, ginger, lime juice, plus a tiny bit of sugar and hot sauce. It's so tasty, bright, and refreshing.
This lavender lemon weekend cake is fragrant and lemony, and is topped with a sweet lemon, blackberry, and lavender glaze.
This lemon lavender cake is inspired by the cakes of France. With the abundance of fields of lavender in the French countryside in the summer, a cake filled with the essence of lavender is so perfect.
This grilled steak sandwich begins with slices of a freshly grilled steak that are stacked on a garlicky grilled ciabatta bun and finished with a delicious horseradish cream.
This grilled steak sandwich is simple yet elevated, with not too many extra ingredients.. just pickles, crispy lettuce, and the creamy horseradish sauce.
