These Vegetable and Cheddar Tarts, filled with zucchini, tomatoes, onions, and red bell peppers, and baked in a flaky and cheesy crust, are a delicious savory pastry treat that you can serve for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
This vegetable and cheddar tart with its cheesy filling and cheese-filled crust is a cheddar lover's dream.
This Greek Orange-Phyllo Cake is a brilliant concoction of crispy phyllo pieces baked in a creamy egg, sugar, orange juice, olive oil, Greek yogurt, and vanilla batter, along with a little bit of semolina.
After baking, this cake is also soaked in a syrup of orange juice, Grand Marnier, sugar, and orange zest, and flavored with cinnamon.
These Asiago Cheese Bagels are both stuffed and topped with melted cheese. Bread and melted cheese.... doesn't that sound magical?
These bagels are totally amazing, and when they are baking your house will be enveloped with the aroma of baking cheese.
This air fryer Mexican street corn is an easy short cut for making the delicious and popular treat sold at food stands and food carts on Mexican streets corners.
Mexican street corn, known as esquites (or ezquites, meaning toasted corn), is usually served in individual plastic or paper cups as a snack (antojitos) to hold you over before dinner or for a late night treat.
With only a few simple ingredients, you can make Pappa al Pomodoro, a delicious and fresh tasting Tuscan tomato and bread soup.
Pappa al pomodoro is a hearty tomato and bread soup with roots in the Tuscan region of Italy. It's traditionally made with stale bread, and is a close cousin to panzanella salad, which is also made with tomatoes and stale bread and has roots in Tuscany.
This coconut shrimp, made in the air fryer, is super crunchy and crispy, and is just as tasty as the deep-fried version you might order for an appetizer at your favorite bar or restaurant.
Making coconut shrimp in the air fryer results in an amazingly crispy yet moist and juicy appetizer, snack, or dinner. Making these takes about 45 minutes, start to finish, and you're pretty much guaranteed success.
These steamed chicken and vegetable buns are deliciously warm, fluffy, and soft treats filled with a mix of tender chicken and vegetables.
Make a filling of chicken, peas, carrots, and Chinese chives and wrap it in a soft and fluffy yeasted dough to make a delicious Chinese-style steamed bun, also called bao or baozi.
Cinnamon blueberry babka, a sweet fruit-swirled bread you will fall in love with.
This babka is made with a butter and egg enriched dough beautifully swirled with a homemade blueberry cinnamon jam, brushed with syrup, and topped with a vanilla glaze.
This mixed berry galette is a quick and easy way to pull together a tasty dessert for four with fresh summer berries.
This sweet galette, filled with raspberries and blackberries, is the dessert recipe you'll love to make when you want to serve a wonderful freshly baked pastry warm from the oven.
These dulce de leche dumpling cookies, with their soft and crumbly cookie crust and sweet caramel filling are such a treat.
These dumpling cookies are like miniature hand pies filled with dollops of dulce de leche, a caramel sauce made with milk and sugar that has been simmered for a couple of hours.
This bacon, tomato, and corn galette is a wonderful way to enjoy the flavors of summer all wrapped up in a flaky and buttery pastry.
What is a galette? It's essentially a free-form pie or a tart where the pastry is topped with filling and then the sides are folded over to enclose it. The filling can be sweet or savory.
This saffron risotto with sausage is a delicious take on the traditional dish from the canton of Ticino, in the Italian part of Switzerland.
While risotto is thought of as a traditional northern Italian dish, it also has deep roots in Ticino, the Italian part of Switzerland, which is from where my grandmother emigrated to the U.S. when she was 12 years old.
These roasted fingerling potatoes with shallots and rosemary are a wonderful crisp-tender treat. They are the perfect side dish for a steak dinner.
These potatoes are kind of a cross between potato chips and scalloped potatoes. They are crispy on the edges and tender in the middle. These are always a big hit as a side dish for my favorite steak.
This white bean and cherry tomato salad is a wonderful way to feature fresh and sweet cherry tomatoes when they are in season.
This tomato and bean salad is fabulous for picnics, outdoor parties, and summer dinners. It's both a delicious salad and filling side dish in one. Pair it with a steak, chop, or chicken, and you have a complete dinner.
These Hot Cross Bun Muffins are an easy way to enjoy the flavor of hot cross buns without the time it takes to make the yeasted variety.
These muffins are flavored with cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice and filled with rum-soaked raisins and dried cranberries. They are piped with a creamy vanilla frosting on top in the same shape that you would top a traditional yeasted hot cross bun.
This rustic multigrain bread, loaded with seeds and whole grains, is hearty and satisfying.
This multigrain multiseed bread is delicious plain with butter, toasted and topped with a fried egg, and grilled with cheese. It makes excellent avocado toast.
Make this chicken enchilada casserole when you need to get an easy four-ingredient delicious dinner on the table in just 30 minutes.
This easy four-ingredient chicken enchilada casserole is the perfect recipe for getting dinner on the table fast, preparing a casserole for new neighbors or friends in need, and adding to your regular dinner rotation.
This no knead rustic dinner roll recipe is just about the easiest way to get fresh whole wheat rolls on the dinner table.
Would you like to have fresh rolls for dinner that require very little hands on time?
These soft and tender Meyer lemon vanilla shortbread cookies have a mild lemon and vanilla flavor. They are perfect for an after school treat or with afternoon tea.
Welcome to #LemonWeek 2022 hosted by Lynn from Fresh April Flours and Rebecca from Devour Dinner. This week is sponsored by Rodelle and La Tourangelle. I received product samples from these sponsors to help in the creation of my recipes. All opinions are my own. Come join me and my fellow Lemon Week bloggers as we bring you recipes from appetizers to drinks to entrées and desserts!
Make this braided lemon bread with blackberries for Sunday breakfast or a sweet lemony afternoon treat.
Welcome to #LemonWeek 2022 hosted by Lynn from Fresh April Flours and Rebecca from Devour Dinner. This week is sponsored by Rodelle and La Tourangelle. I received product samples from these sponsors to help in the creation of my recipes. All opinions are my own. Come join me and my fellow Lemon Week bloggers as we bring you recipes from appetizers to drinks to entrées and desserts!
These lemon shortbread bars are filled with an amazing amount of delicious and bright lemony flavor.
Welcome to #LemonWeek 2022 hosted by Lynn from Fresh April Flours and Rebecca from Devour Dinner. This week is sponsored by Rodelle and La Tourangelle. I received product samples from these sponsors to help in the creation of my recipes. All opinions are my own. Come join me and my fellow Lemon Week bloggers as we bring you recipes from appetizers to drinks to entrées and desserts!
This chicken and corn soup is easy to prepare and takes less than 30 minutes to make, start to finish.
This chicken and corn soup is a delicious combination of Asian and American ingredients. It can be found on the menus of Chinese restaurants and is thickened by an unexpected ingredient, canned cream corn.
This lemon-curd pound cake is layered with so much sweet-tart lemony flavor.
This lemon pound cake requires a couple of extra steps to make, but it is worth is. This cake is so moist and lemony, and is filled with the faint swirls of homemade lemon curd.
Serve these mini shrimp cocktail cucumber cups at your next get together for a light and refreshing appetizer.
These Shrimp cocktail cucumber cups are a great make-ahead snack, perfect for a barbecue, dinner party, or cocktail party.
This Pan Gallego, or Galician Bread, is a bread from Spain with a distinctive knot at the top.
This Galician bread is made with a blend of bread flour and rye flour and is leavened with a preferment of liquid starter fed with white, whole wheat, and rye.
These mini strawberry shortcake parfaits, made with just four ingredients, are a wonderful easy and light dessert to serve at your next dinner get together.
Sometimes you just need a quick and easy recipe that requires very few ingredients, especially after a fabulous dinner. These mini strawberry shortcake parfaits, served in little amuse bouche glasses, are light and refreshing, and totally delicious.
This grilled flatbread is not only easy to make, it's also a great way to get fresh, warm bread for your outdoor soiree without turning on your oven in the middle of summer.
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These grilled flatbreads, baked directly on the grate of your grill, are done in just a couple of minutes per side. Just shape them while your grill is heating up, toss them on the oiled grates, and watch them puff up and cook through in no time.
With this recipe for grilled tuna steaks with honey vinaigrette, you will be able to prepare an easy and elegant restaurant quality dish at home with just a few ingredients you probably already have.
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These tuna steaks, grilled over high heat, are beautifully seared outside and have a perfectly pink center. I aimed for a rare center, but you can quickly sear them and leave the center raw (like seared ahi), or cook them just a few seconds longer for medium rare.
Whip up these easy no knead German rolls, with their crunchy crust and their airy crumb, with almost no effort.
In fact, my friend Ralph of Breadworks Workshops, and the creator of this recipe, dubs these rolls "Do Nothing German Crusty Rolls." I am sharing this recipe with Ralph's permission.
This grilled kale salad is topped with garlicky grilled baguette croutons and tossed with a spicy and garlicky dressing.
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This garlicky kale salad is a delicious make-ahead side dish for serving at your next barbecue. It includes grilled kale, a spicy garlic and lemon dressing, and crunchy garlic croutons made from baguette slices that you also grill.
This Chocolate Walnut Babka will become one of your favorite sweet yeasted celebration breads.
Babka is a kind of sweet challah-like enriched bread laced with cinnamon, fruit, and/or chocolate.
The British Bloody Mary, made with gin instead of vodka, adds a hint of botanical flavor to this classic brunch cocktail.
Have you ever had a Bloody Mary with gin? Even if you are not a gin lover, there's a good chance that you will love the additional flavors that gin brings to this drink.
The recipe for these whole wheat sandwich loaves is perfect for making your everyday bread. The loaves can be made in just a little over three hours, start to finish.
These whole wheat loaves are perfect sliced for sandwiches. The flavor compliments deli meats, cheeses, and even peanut butter and jelly. This bread also makes excellent toast.
If you have a craving for fresh pretzels, whip up a batch of these easy-to-make hot buttered soft pretzels.
These hot buttered pretzels, brushed with melted butter right after baking, are irresistable.
These Tomato Muffins, with their bright color and mild tomato and cheese flavor, are wonderful for breakfast or a snack.
These tomato muffins are mildly flavored with tomato soup concentrate and Parmesan cheese. They are mildly savory, but with a hint of sweetness as well, making them perfect for serving warm with melted salted butter.
This Mexican Chicken Lasagna is layered with corn tortillas, seasoned ground chicken, corn, beans, salsa, and lots of cheese.
This Mexican chicken lasagna is the perfect make-ahead casserole for serving a crowd.
This Mexican red rice is the essential time tested side dish for whenever you are serving your favorite Mexican-style meal.
Arroz rojo, or red rice, is one of those dishes served every day with Mexican dishes both north and south of the Rio Grande. When you think of rice and beans, this is pretty much the traditional tomato-y rice, with a couple of twists.
This lighter than air olive oil chiffon cake is fragrant with the faint scent of oranges and fruity olive oil. It's perfect with a cup of coffee or tea.
This olive oil chiffon cake includes freshly squeezed orange juice and extra virgin olive oil. It lends itself to all kinds of toppings, including whipped cream, chocolate sauce, fruit sauce, or ice cream.
These creamy garlic mashed potatoes are the perfect comfort food side dish.
These garlic mashed potatoes go perfectly with steak, roast, and chicken dinners.
These garlic and sea salt pita chips are an easy and delicious appetizer.
These garlic and sea salt pita chips are a happy result of my pita bread experiment. After baking a batch of pita bread, I had several left over that were beginning to get stale.
These sourdough French-style blini are little buckwheat pancakes that you can top with savory ingredients such as smoked salmon or caviar along with a spoonful of crème fraîche or sour cream.
French-style blini are little appetizer-sized pancakes. They can be served warm or room temperature topped with savory ingredients such as crème fraîche or sour cream and smoked fish or caviar.
This Scandinavian-style fish and potato soup, with cod, dill, and chives, makes a creamy and comforting meal.
A small bowl of this fish and potato soup with a salad and a slice of crusty bread makes a wonderful lunch, and a big bowl is filling enough for dinner.
These spicy salmon and potato croquettes are loaded with a wonderful combination of flavors.
These salmon and potato croquettes are excellent as appetizers served with a cool cucumber dip along with assorted crudités and crackers.
These orange blueberry hot cross buns are a fun and tasty take on a classic Eastertime bread.
While hot cross buns are most known for celebrating the end of the Lenten season, these yeasted sweet buns are a delicious treat any time of year.
This chili crisp grilled cheese sandwich is the way to take a grilled cheese sandwich to the next level. You'll never have "regular" grilled cheese again.
This chili crisp grilled cheese, with a mixture of cheddar and jack cheeses and dollops of chili crisp stuffed between two slices of crusty cheese bread turns your favorite lunchtime sandwich into something really special.
These Stir-Fried Balsamic and Ginger Glazed Carrots are so incredibly flavorful. They are the perfect holiday side dish.
The first time I tasted one of these carrots straight from the wok, I nearly swooned. They are that tasty.
This double levain pilsner bread is crusty on the outside and soft on the inside. You will love your first slice, slathered in melty salted butter.
Beer and bread have long been linked together. Other than hops (or salt in the case of bread), they pretty much have the same ingredients... grains, yeast, and water.
This Vietnamese Zucchini and Carrot Salad with Peanuts is incredibly light, refreshing, and flavorful.
Tossed in a bright simple dressing, this crunchy and colorful salad is easy to make and so refreshing to eat.
This Tomato, Cucumber, and Red Onion Salad with Latholemono Dressing is so refreshing and easy to make.
The salad consists of English cucumbers, fresh Campari tomatoes, red onion, and parsley.. all simple and fresh ingredients.
This tangzhong whole wheat and rye bread is soft, fluffy, and slightly sweet. It's perfect for toast, sandwiches, or on its own with a schmear of butter.
To achieve the soft and fluffy texture, you add a roux of flour and water that you have cooked to 149 degrees F (64 degrees C) and then cooled, to the dough. This is called a tangzhong.
