Adventures in cooking and baking.
Sear roasting is a great way to prepare a steak, especially when you are unable to grill outside. By searing the steak on the stove top and then transferring it to a hot oven for just a few minutes, you end up with a steak that is charred on the outside and evenly cooked on the inside.
We enjoyed this steak with French fries and green beans with shallots and tomatoes. It was a tasty meal.
This easy clam chowder is wonderful when the weather gets cooler and you need something warming and easy to put together.
This chowder fits the bill. The broth is a combination of clam juice and the juice from canned tomatoes, and the soup is loaded with goodies such as clams, potatoes, onions, and herbs. Plus, this chowder comes together in about 30 minutes or less.
These frozen chocolate peanut butter truffles are a tasty treat that are like a cross between candy and ice cream.
These frozen truffles are filled with a concoction of whipped cream, peanut butter, and chcolate ganache. They are then chilled and coated in chocolate and sprinkled with chopped peanuts.
This Mexican Street Corn Pizza is inspired by esquites, which is a street corn salad where the vendor strips the corn and adds all of the ingredients into to-go bowl that you can enjoy without eating corn on the cob.
This pizza begins with a Neapolitan style crust, which is thin and crispy and is topped with the corn mixture along with roasted Hatch chiles. I've been on a Hatch chile kick this August, roasting them whenever I can get my hands on them.
These cinnamon crunch bagels are a sweet way to enjoy bagels for breakfast. Your cravings for both a chewy bagel and a sweet way to start the day will be satisfied.
I have a lot of bagel recipes here on this site, including sourdough bagels, New York water bagels, jalapeño bagels, asiago cheese bagels, marbled rye bagels, pretzel bagels, egg bagels, sourdough blueberry bagels, onion bagels, and overnight bagels.
This easy sourdough breakfast bread is great for slicing and toasting, making French toast, and topping with fresh avocado and tomatoes.
If you have an active sourdough starter, you can make this bread, from start to finish, in just about half a day. It's hard to predict the actual timing because there are variables such as room temperature, humidity, and the flour you are using. However, if you start mixing the dough in the morning, you should have a wonderful loaf of bread by the afternoon.
This spicy slaw with red cabbage and mango is crunchy and flavorful, and the mango adds a wonderful sweetness to this salad.
This slaw is refreshing and perfect for serving with grilled steaks, pork chops, short ribs, or spare ribs. You can also serve it with a sandwich for a light lunch.
