This bread, besides being pretty darn stunning, is soft, garlicky, cheesy, and tasty. It will kind of remind you of the flavors of pizza in a soft bread.
This pasta salad with roasted carrots, kale, sunflower seeds, and Parmesan cheese will become your new favorite pasta salad.
The dressing for this pasta salad is so tasty! The ingredients in the dressing are so unexpected too!
These crumb buns, topped with a giant amount of delicious streusel, are the most amazing way to dress up a sweet and rich yeasted dough for the perfect coffee cake treat.
These buns are a streusel lover's dream. There is so much streausel on these buns that you might not realize that there are actual rolls underneath.
These white chocolate muffins are a wonderful sweet breakfast treat, tea time snack, and even dessert.
These muffins are filled with finely chopped white chocolate and the resulting flavor is clearly white chocolate. It's so intriguing.
This Mongolian lamb and scallion stir fry is so easy to make, yet it packs so much flavor.
This Stir-Fried Mongolian Lamb with Scallions is reportedly a favorite lunch in Inner Mongolia. Evidently, there is a large nomadic population who raise sheep.
This roasted tomato and pepper soup is perfect when you need something tasty, filling, and nutritious.
Paired with a grilled cheese sandwich on sourdough bread (I love how the cheese melts through the holes in the bread), this makes a wonderful lunch or a light dinner.
These candied kumquats are a wonderful way to enjoy the abundance of the fruit this time of year.
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Candied kumquats are delicious over vanilla ice cream (kind of like the flavors of creamsicles), wonderful in salads, and just plain good on their own. You can even make kumquatinis!
These Potato Samosas are filled with a tangy and spicy mixture of potatoes, peas, herbs, and spices.
These little Indian dumplings are crispy and spicy. They are delicious fresh from the fryer served on their own as a snack or an appetizer, or with a salad for lunch.
These chocolate whiskey cupcakes are both intensely chocolatey and boozy, with a hint of coffee to enhance the deep chocolate flavor.
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You have got to try these super moist and super chocolatey cupcakes. I've frosted them with a chocolate, coffee, and whiskey ganache, but you can frost them with a fluffy vanilla buttercream if you prefer.
These Mandarin Orange and Rhubarb Mini Loaves are perfect to make when rhubarb begins showing up in grocery stores and farmers markets.
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These little rhubarb and orange breads are super easy to make and take advantage of the rhubarb bounty available in the spring.
This spicy carrot salad with broccoli is dressed with ingredients with Asian flavors and spiced up with jalapeño and Fresno chiles.
For this carrot salad, I combined some multi-colored organic carrots along with some pre-shredded broccoli and sliced jalapeño and Fresno chiles.
This jam cake with caramel frosting is pretty incredible. The caramel frosting is a revelation. Imagine a spice cake filled with blackberry jam and topped with a fluffy caramel candy frosting.
This cake batter includes allspice, cloves, and cinnamon.. and 1/2 cup of blackberry jam! It's such a unique combination of ingredients.
This minestrone Napoletana is loaded with lots of spring and summer vegetables. Plus, it's so delicious and it makes it easy to get a day's worth of veggies in one bowl. You will feel so virtuous!
Minestrone includes fresh vegetables, along with some legumes and either pasta, rice, or both. Plus, there is usually some pancetta, olive oil, or lardons.
This shrimp in tomato and chile sauce is an orchestra of deeply delicious flavors.
This spicy shrimp dish is loaded with concentrated flavors of tomatoes that have been cooked down to their tomato-y essence, along with green chilies, garlic, coriander, cumin chile powder, allspice, cinnamon, cardamom, clove, mace, and nutmeg.
This green tea bread is made with matcha tea powder and candied kumquats. It's such an unusual and delicious combination of flavors.
With St. Patrick's Day coming up, it's pretty much time for green and orange bread, right? Fortunately, one of he Bread Baking Babes members, Cathy of Bread Experience introduced us to this Green Tea and Orange Bread by Eric Kayser in the book, The Larousse Book of Bread.
This Instant Pot chicken and lentil soup is so delicious, nourishing, and warming on a chilly day.
This chicken and lentil soup is seasoned with wonderful combination of herbs and spices, which give the soup such a wonderful flavor. This soup is amazingly delicious, filling, and hearty. Plus, lentils are so nutritious.
This Creamsicle meringue pie will become your new favorite meringue pie. The combination of orange and vanilla will take you back to memories or your favorite childhood treat.
What I love about this meringue pie is the amazing combination of Mandarin orange and vanilla flavors.
Homemade potato chips with freshly grated parmesan cheese and a sprinkle of sea salt. What else can I say? They are so good!
You'll love these homemade potato chips fresh from the fryer and sprinkled with fresh Parmesan cheese and sea salt.
This buss up shut bread, a Trinidad flatbread also called paratha roti, is such a fun bread to make and eat. Serve it with curries, stews, and use it to sop up sauces on your plate.
Why is it called "buss up shut?" This griddle bread got its name from a tattered and torn shirt, or "busted-up shirt." It's a griddled flatbread that is lightly beaten with wooden spatulas while still on the tawa (a round flat griddle) after it is fully cooked, in order to shred the buttery layers.
These pistacchio madeleines (Madeleines a la Pistache) are little cakes that are a take on the traditional French recipe for baked shells of flour, sugar, butter, and eggs.
Watching Madeleines bake is almost as fun as watching macarons, but with slightly less tension. The thrill with Madeleines is... "will there be a bump?"
Japanese Potato Salad is typically made from boiled and mashed potatoes mixed with Japanese mayonnaise, cucumbers, carrots, ham, and sometimes onions. Evidently, there are many variations of this salad served in pubs (izakayas) throughout Japan.
This linguine with salmon and cilantro almond pesto comes together quickly and is a simple yet elegant dinner for two.
I used a cilantro and almond pesto for this linguine and salmon. I loved the fresh flavor of the cilantro. Plus, the almonds go so well with the cilantro, garlic, and Romano cheese.
Making this salad is astonishingly simple, and it keeps well in the refrigerator for a couple of days. The noodles absorb the delicious flavors of the dressing over time.
This cookie is really just a small amount of chocolate cookie dough holding together a collection of chocolate chips and chunks. Seriously. Only 1 3/4 cups of flour to make three dozen cookies. The texture is sort of a cross between a brownie and a cookie. So good.
This Skordalia is a delicious Greek dip made with raw garlic and riced potatoes. It can be used as a dip, a spread, or a sauce.
The first time I tried skordalia was at a lovely Greek restaurant on State Street in Santa Barbara. We were with friends walking around looking for a place for dinner and stumbled upon this restaurant. The waiter brought a basket of bread and this bowl of spread.
Migas! A delicious breakfast of eggs, tortilla chips, and salsa. The word roughly means of crumbs. Whatever you have left over gets tossed into the pot.
This Tex-Mex version of migas includes eggs, tortilla chips, tomatoes, jalapeño, onions, red and green bell peppers, cheese, and cilantro.
These loaded breakfast muffins are the perfect grab-and-go packages of breakfast deliciousness.
I'm super excited about these muffins. I like to make a dozen of them, wrap them and freeze them, and then defrost and reheat them one at a time as needed to have a ready made breakfast for a busy morning.
If you are craving a big traditional breakfast burrito, no matter what time of day it is, this Famous Breakfast Burrito will satisfy your cravings.
This breakfast burrito is the perfect antidote for anyone looking for a hangover preventer, cure, or just a hearty meal wrapped up in one big package any time of day. And "big" is the operative word here.
This limoncello margarita takes the classic tequila cocktail and gives it an Italian twist.
I just happened to have some homemade limoncello in the back of the refrigerator, and because Tuesday is National Margarita Day, I thought I'd play around with it to make a margarita.
If you are craving a slice of cake, be sure to make this easy marble cake, a mixture of chocolate and vanilla cake that doesn't need any frosting. It's so good!
This marble cake is super moist and stays fresh for several days. It's delicious on its own or topped with whipped cream or ice cream.
This Peruvian potato soup, or "locro de papas," is a delicious hearty soup made with potatoes, cream cheese, and flavorful spices and peppers.
Traditional Peruvian potato soup is spiced with ground annatto seeds. Annatto seeds are from the achiote tree.
Leeks, chilies, tomatoes, wine, and garlic help create a delicious bowl of steaming hot delicious mussels.
Be sure you have a lot of crusty bread at the table to sop up all of the delicious juices.
This Uzbek flatbread is a fluffy yeasted bread that is delicious warm with butter and honey or jam, or simply torn and dipped in your favorite soup or stew.
Bacon and scallops are such a delicious combination. The smoky bacon and the sweet scallops go so well together.
These little bacon and scallop packages are delicious as a simple appetizer or main course. They are also wonderful for topping a salad for lunch or dinner.
No, there is not a tiny baby Jesus baked into these King Cake Spritz Cookies, but don't they look a lot like the mini versions of their inspiration?
These individual deep dish pizzas, with peppers and sausage, are a delicious take on Chicago-style pizza.
These mini deep dish pizzas are a fun way to recreate the flavors of Chicago-style pizza. First, there is a crispy crust that is slightly sweet. It's easy to make, and is ready to shape in two hours.
These individual chocolate cakes, known as bouchons ("corks" in French), are so chocolaty and melty, and absolutely delicious.
These chocolate bouchons are Thomas Keller's take on an American classic, the brownie. The resulting gateau de bouchon are incredible. They are an amazing treat.
These stir-fried clams in bean sauce with chilies and green peppers are so flavorful and rich tasting. The sauce turned out so delicious that I wish I could bottle it.
My favorite local seafood restaurant serves clams in a delicious spicy sauce that you soak up with slices of cheesy garlic bread. The dish is on the appetizer menu, but I order it as my entree, along with a salad. Heaven!
Ragù Bolognese is a delicious meaty tomato sauce originating from Bologna in northern Italy. This one has three kinds of meat and is simmered for about three hours.
This ragù Bolognese recipe produces a thick, rich, and delicious sauce that you can use on pasta or in a very special lasagna bolognese.
These chocolate croissants (pain au chocolat) are perfect for sharing over breakfast with a cup of coffee.
This is my favorite dough for making croissants and pastries. It doesn't require a weekend's worth of work, and the dough is very easy to work with.
This white bean and artichoke heart dip is loaded with bright fresh flavors. It's super easy to make and it's a flavorful and nutritious snack.
This white bean and artichoke heart dip recipe is a revamp of the typically mayonnaise or cream cheese loaded version. Instead of mayonnaise, the recipe combines nutritious and protein rich white beans with Greek yogurt to add all of the creaminess you crave in an artichoke dip.
This bread is a combination of bread flour and whole spelt flour, along with water, salt and yeast.
These Bacon Cheddar Muffins are cheesy and bacony and made with three types of grains, including wheat, corn, and rye.
Bacon and cheddar cheese are pretty much a marriage made in heaven. In fact, one of my favorite sandwiches is bacon and grilled cheese.
This recipe for sheet pan chicken with roasted potatoes makes an easy and hearty dinner for your family.
With roasted potatoes and onions tossed in lemon, whole grain Dijon mustard, rosemary, and thyme, along with a moist and flavorful roast chicken all cooked together on one pan, this is wonderful Sunday night dinner.
This Oatmeal-Applesauce cake is the perfect excuse for having cake for breakfast.
Your first bite of this cake will remind you of taking a bite out of an apple. Your second bite will remind you of a bowl of oatmeal.
This yellow cake baked oatmeal is sure to be a hit at your next breakfast or brunch. It's so good, you could probably almost pass it off as a dessert... like an oatmeal cobbler.
This baked oatmeal is a mixture of butter, milk, quick-cooking oats, eggs, and yellow cake mix all topped with peaches and raspberries. Yes, yellow cake mix. Trust me.
These port braised short ribs are a snap to make in the Instant Pot. They are beefy and fall off the bone tender.
Beef short ribs are one of the most flavorful cuts of beef. They are amazing braised until they fall off the bone, and the meat is also delicious ground and added to burgers (the most flavorful burgers ever).
I have always liked making my own popcorn in a pot. While microwave popcorn is pretty convenient, freshly popped "real" popcorn is so much better. Plus, you can make enough for a crowd and the only ingredients are corn, oil, and salt (unless you add your own flavorings).
Liège Style Waffles require an overnight rise, and are filled with pearl sugar, which gives them a sweet taste and a caramelized crust.
This toasted oats bread is flavored with toasted oats that have been soaked overnight before incorporating them into the dough. The toasted oats add such a wonderful nutty flavor.
This toasted oats bread is wonderful sliced and buttered, eaten with soup, and toasted for breakfast.
