Adventures in cooking and baking.
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.
This lomo saltado is a tasty mixture of beef, tomatoes, chiles, onions, and French fried potatoes. It is typically accompanied with white rice.
Lomo Saltado is a traditional Chinese Peruvian stir-fry, and another example of how Chinese emigrants adapted the local ingredients of their new land to their cooking style.
There are likely many versions of Brazilian Feijoada, with each family claiming that their tradition is the right one. After all, it is a national dish with roots in the country's past, including making the most of whatever ingredients are on hand.
Feijoada actually has roots in Brazil's slaveholding past (Milk Street Magazine, March, 2022) and it was made with whatever bits of meat, pork ears, tails, feet, and tongue that were leftover from the slaveholders meals. The meat was cooked low and slow with black beans.
This cod, leek, and potato chowder is super creamy and comes together very quickly. Pair it with a glass of chardonnay for a wine that holds up well to the richness of this soup.
This cod chowder is a wonderful combination of a creamy fish stock base along with leeks, celery, carrots, potatoes, onions, and herbs. It all comes together in less than 30 minutes if you prep your ingredients in advance. It's the perfect recipe for a quick weeknight dinner.
