This butterscotch pot de crème is a French-style make-ahead dessert that is elegant and totally delicious.
This butterscotch pot de crème dessert is very special. It's custardy, but much creamier and silkier... plus, it's richer and much more decadent. Other custards do not even come close.
This 30-Second Smoothie is for those days when you and your kids are too hot to eat anything and just want to cool off.
Sourdough maple pecan muffins filled with chopped toasted pecans and real maple syrup. Plus, these muffins are a great way to use up leftover sourdough starter.
These muffins are delicious warm from the oven and slathered in butter. They are easy to make, with very few dishes to wash.... even less if you use a kitchen scale to measure the ingredients directly into the mixing bowl.
This black coffee ice cream brings the wonderful flavor and aroma of fresh roasted coffee to your favorite dessert.
The temperature here tomorrow is supposed to hit about 90 degrees. This makes me think of ice cream... and my dad. I don't think a day went by that my dad did not have a bowl of ice cream. I love ice cream too with a capital "L." If I were to assemble a list of my top 5 favorite foods, ice cream would be on it.
Take advantage of the fresh, plump grapes available in the fall and treat yourself to a delicious rustic grape and almond cake.
This grape and almond paste cake will convince you that you really should bake with grapes more often. I love how baking them makes them even sweeter.
This comforting German potato salad, with pork, potatoes, and a vinegary dressing, is delicious, and it goes with anything that you might serve with any potato dish.
This German potato salad is super tangy and packed with bacon flavor. It is definitely a contrast to the traditional American mayonnaise-based potato salad.
These New England-style split top hot dog buns are so soft and fluffy. They are perfect for your favorite hot dog, sausage, or lobster roll.
What makes New England style hot dog buns different is that they are split at the top rather than the side, stand up straight, and the sides are buttered and grilled before they are filled.
This simple Tuscan bean soup is pure comfort food. It's simply beans simmered in a broth flavored with onions, carrots, and celery, along with a meaty ham hock.
What's beautiful about this Tuscan white bean soup is you can make it your own by adding some kale, carrot slices, Swiss chard, or other vegetables.
This delicious bread is pletzel. It's an Ashkenazi Jewish flatbread and is sometimes called Onion Board.
Pletzel is topped with onions and poppy seeds, just like bialys. It's kind of a cross between focaccia and and a bialy. Typically it is shaped either in a board or a disk (called an onion disk).
These hot buttered lobster rolls, or Connecticut-style lobster rolls, are filled with warm, sweet lobster tossed with melted butter and a little bit of red onion and finished with only a sprinkling of chives.
Unlike the Maine or New England-style lobster roll, which is filled with cold lobster salad, the lobster in the Connecticut-style lobster roll is served hot and bathed in melted butter before being stuffed into a buttery toasted split-top bun.
These soft pretzel bites have all of the chewy texture and flavor of your favorite street vendor pretzel in a poppable little bite.
It's so hard to stop eating these warm, soft, and chewy pretzel bites when they emerge from the oven. Once you try one, you'll be completely obsessed.
This take on chicken adobo is made with everyone's favorite hearty bar snack game day snack, chicken wings.
If you love wings, you will definitely love these. The taste is so umami rich with a nice tang from the vinegar in the marinade and sauce.
These maple and pecan biscotti are super crunchy and flavorful, perfect for dipping in your morning coffee and for snacking anytime you want a satisfying treat.
Biscotti, also known as Cantucci, is an Italian (originally from Tuscany) hard and crunchy cookie, or "biscuit," You can dip them in coffee, tea, or dessert wine, such as vino santo. Typically they have almonds or pine nuts.
These spinach and potato dumplings, or varenyky, are tasty little half moon shaped treats filled with a mixture of potatoes, spinach, onions, and zucchini.
There are many versions of these dumplings in Ukraine, both sweet and savory. They are typically boiled and can be eaten straight from the pot, or fried after boiling, often with sour cream on the side.
This maple pecan oat bread will be a tasty addition to your breakfast or brunch table.
While this maple, pecan, and oat yeasted bread is baking, your house will smell amazing.
These Maple Syrup Pancake Cookies are a delicious version of your favorite fall weekend breakfast in a cookie form.
When fall rolls around (and it can't be soon enough after this long hot summer), you'll enjoy these totally maple-y "pancake" cookies.
These Brookies, made with a mash up of chocolate chip cookie dough and brownie batter and baked into a cookie, are perfect for when you can't decide whether or not you want one or the other.
These brookie cookies are the perfect combination of brownie and chocolate chip cookie. They are soft and chewy in the middle and slightly crispy on the edges. Plus, they are loaded with a combination of the flavors of everyone's two favorite childhood desserts (with the exception of ice cream and birthday cake).
The swirl in this pesto bread is filled with basil, parmesan, and garlic, along with pine nuts. The bread smells so good when it is baking.
The combination of basil, garlic, Parmesan, and olive oil in this pesto bread adds just enough richness so that a slice stands on its own, but it's not really overwhelming.
This plum cake is perfect for summer baking when plums are super ripe and sweet. It's easy to make and can be served for breakfast or dessert.
Making this plum cake is so easy. There's no fancy frosting or layers to worry about... all you need is fresh, in season red or purple plums to make this delicious cake.
This corn and roasted sweet red pepper soup is a delicious and comforting combination of flavors.
These seafood salad tacos are a wonderful way to have a delicious hot weather meal and still have an amazing taco.
These seafood salad tacos take warm soft or crispy tortillas and fill them with a fresh summery salad with lots of seafood, tomatoes, corn, radishes, and serrano and jalapeño chiles.... plus, lots of cilantro and lime juice.
These Hong Kong-Style inside out coconut buns are made with a soft and fluffy milk bread swirled with a buttery coconut filling.
These buns are made with a soft and springy enriched dough spread with a delicious sweet, rich, and buttery coconut filling and then twisted so that you get a taste of the filling in every bite.
This pain au bacon, or bacon sourdough bread, combines the acidity of sourdough bread with the salty meatiness of bacon.
Imagine a half of a pound of bacon (prior to cooking) in a loaf of sourdough bread.
Burrito bowls are such an easy and quick meal. Toss rice, a bean and corn salad, and fresh tomatoes, vegetables, and a protein into a bowl to pull together dinner in a flash.
To make these burrito bowls, you can prepare all of the ingredients in advance and reheat them to assemble and serve.
This Kale Caesar Salad takes a favorite classic salad and dresses it up with added kale for extra leafy green nutrition.
There's a reason why just about every restaurant and steak house features some version of the classic Caesar. Mostly, because it tastes so good.
These coconut buns, made with a buttery almost brioche-like dough and stuffed with sweet coconut filling, are a take on the traditional Hong Kong cocktail bun.
The story goes that these buns were created in the 1950s in Hong Kong by bakeries to use up leftover bread. The term Gai Mei actually means "cock tail," (like the chicken) and is Cantonese slang for leftovers.
This asparagus and tomato frittata takes advantage of all of the freshly harvested asparagus available this time of year.
This asparagus frittata is loaded with fresh asparagus, cherry tomatoes, and melty Gruyère cheese. It's delicious for breakfast, brunch, or even a light dinner.
This Chinese Cuban fried rice, or arroz frito, is a wonderful combination of ingredients tossed together in just a few minutes.
There is no one recipe for Chinese Cuban fried rice. Each Cuban family has their own. However, some of the common ingredients include some sort of protein such as pork, ham, Spam, or shrimp, and soy sauce (typically dark soy sauce), or salsa china.
This zucchini fried rice, with garlic, Parmesan, tomatoes, and thyme, is a deliciously Italian-ish take on fried rice.
This zucchini fried rice makes the most of the bounty of summer squash that is available this time of year.
This Greek Salad is really simple but exceptionally tasty. Sometimes simple is better, especially in the summer.
Greek salad has such a fresh flavor. It is typically tomatoes, cucumber, feta cheese, and Kalamata olives drizzled with an olive oil based dressing. It can also include red onions and green bell peppers.
This no knead durum stirato (an Italian ciabatta-style baguette made with a high hydration dough) is a fun and easy bread to make... and the flavor is amazing.
This bread is a take on stirato baguettes, but with added durum flour.
These S'mores muffins, with a Graham cracker infused batter filled with marshmallow creme and bittersweet chocolate chips are a fun treat reminiscent of the S'mores you remember enjoying by the campfire.
These S'mores muffins are made with a batter that is almost dough-like in texture, resulting in a muffin that resembles a very soft cookie.
This quick shrimp fried rice comes together in under 30 minutes and you can customize it with your favorite rice, protein, and vegetables.
This recipe for shrimp fried rice takes advantage of a few shortcut ingredients to creat an amazing bowl of fried rice that is pretty much better than take-out.
This beehive cake, with layers of banana cake and frosted with a honey buttercream, is a delicious and fun baking project.
If you're interested in dipping your toes into the world of cake decorating, but want a cake that is very forgiving, this cake is perfect.
This one pan cheese ravioli with peas and arugula is an amazing quick and easy dinner.
This one pan ravioli dish, with peas and arugula, is one of the easiest dinners you'll every make. Plus, you'll only have one pan to wash when you're done!
This Finnish summer soup, called kesäkeitto, is a traditional soup featuring freshly harvested summer vegetables cooked in milk, butter, and a little sugar, and then finished with cream.
Kesäkeitto literally means summer soup in Finnish. Ideally, it should be filled with handfuls of young fresh vegetables, the greater the variety, the better.
These flaky butter crescent rolls are light, airy, and pull-apart delicious. Smear them with butter and jam for one of the best breakfast treats ever.
This recipe for flaky buttery crescent rolls is the perfect substitute for whenever you are craving croissants but don't want to invest all of the extra time needed to make them.
This cod with chipotles, black beans, and corn cooked in foil packets is loaded with flavor and comes together in just minutes.
This cod, topped with a chipotle compound butter, placed on a bed of corn and black beans, and baked in the oven for just 15 to 20 minutes is so moist and full of flavor.
This yeasted banana sandwich bread is the perfect way to use up ripened banana to slightly sweeten your next loaf of bread.
When you are making this yeasted banana sandwich bread, you will definitely notice the scent of banana in the dough. However, once you have baked the bread, the banana in the dough adds a faint sweetness, but, unless you know that there is banana in the dough, you'll never know.
This Libyan stew, made with lamb, white beans, and spinach, is a tasty, filling, and nutritious dish.
The sauce for this Libyan lamb stew, or Lubia bel-Saeilk, is made from a reduction of steamed and then charred spinach.
This hot and spicy dirty fried chicken is crisp and juicy and slathered in a sweet and hot gochujang-based sauce straight from the fryer.
This dirty fried chicken, with it's super crunchy skin and hot and sticky sauce, will have you coming back for seconds, even if the amazing sauce gets all over your hands and face (and even your clothes).
This stirato, or Italian baguettes, is a super flavorful and airy bread that is so easy to make.
Stirato is a form of ciabatta that is cut into lengths and then stretched just before baking. The term stirato actually means "ironed" in English.
This Chicken Liver Pâté Crostini is a tasty make-ahead appetizer that is actually pretty economical and easy to prepare.
This crostini, made from my favorite stirato bread, is the perfect vehicle for this delicious chicken liver pâté.
This slow cooker barbecued beef brisket is so pull-apart tender and totally flavorful. It's a fabulous recipe for recreating the slow roasted and smoked flavor without a smoker.
The slow cooker is the perfect vehicle for preparing brisket. This cut of beef was made for "low and slow." The results are super tender and "melt-in-your-mouth" delicious.
These zucchini carrot muffins, loaded with fresh vegetables and dried fruit, are super moist and just sweet enough. They go wonderfully with your morning coffee.
These muffins are a great way to use up some of that zucchini that either you or your neighbors have been harvesting from your gardens.
This tomato, garlic, and basil topped bruschetta is simple, light, fresh, and delicious. It makes a wonderful appetizer.
This bruschetta with a tomato, garlic, and basil topping is my "go-to" fresh summer appetizer. With its bright, concentrated tomato flavor, it's a fabulous nibble with cocktails.
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.
