Lavash Bread with Spinach, Tomatoes, Olives, and Fontina topped with a sprinkling of Parmesan Cheese - an Armenian-style flatbread that, with the toppings, makes a light, easy, and nutritious meal.
This spinach and cheese lavash is like a very thin crust pizza that is extra crispy and crunchy. The combination of the spinach with the cheese, tomatoes, and olives is so flavorful too.
These sweet potato muffins are loaded with pecans and topped with a cinnamon sugar coating.
These muffins are slightly sweet, cinnamon-y, and super moist, especially if you use the red-orange variety of sweet potato.
Spaccatini rolls are lean crusty Italian buns that have a split down the middle. While the only ingredients are flour, water, salt, and yeast, they are totally flavorful from the overnight rise.
These spaccatini rolls are wonderful with a salad, soup, or a pasta dish, just as I imagine they might be enjoyed in Italy.
This salad, with Chinese egg noodles, sliced pork tenderloin, and red bell peppers is hearty enough for lunch or a summer dinner.
This salad is tossed with a vinaigrette of oil, sherry vinegar, soy sauce, ginger, lime juice, plus a tiny bit of sugar and hot sauce. It's so tasty, bright, and refreshing.
This lavender lemon weekend cake is fragrant and lemony, and is topped with a sweet lemon, blackberry, and lavender glaze.
This lemon lavender cake is inspired by the cakes of France. With the abundance of fields of lavender in the French countryside in the summer, a cake filled with the essence of lavender is so perfect.
This grilled steak sandwich begins with slices of a freshly grilled steak that are stacked on a garlicky grilled ciabatta bun and finished with a delicious horseradish cream.
This grilled steak sandwich is simple yet elevated, with not too many extra ingredients.. just pickles, crispy lettuce, and the creamy horseradish sauce.
Add this blueberry chipotle flank steak to your summer grilling rotation. You'll be the star of the cookout.
This flank steak is marinated in a sauce made with blueberry jam and chipotle chiles in adobo, along with apple cider vinegar, olive oil, honey, and molasses.
Make these Korean Cream Cheese Garlic Buns for a deliciously unique and sweet take on garlic bread.
These garlic buns are rumored to have begun as a trendy street food in the city of Gangneung in South Korea.
This grilled chicken and peach mixed green salad is the perfect summer dinner, and you'll love the amazing blueberry vinaigrette.
Start with a bed of mixed greens and top them with chicken breasts that you grill and slice after marinating them in a pineapple juice and soy sauce-based mixture.
These homemade popovers are crispy, puffy, light, airy, and custardy all at the same time. They're pretty magical and a baker's dream.
If you've never made popovers before, you need to give these a try. You don't even need a special pan to make them!
This ciabatta garlic bread begins with an easy-to-make ciabatta loaf that is sliced and brushed with lots of butter and garlic and finished with a quick char on the grill. So good!
Make a soft and airy loaf of ciabatta and turn half of it into amazing crunchy, buttery, and garlicky grilled bread.
Your fingers will be definitely be coated with sauce after eating these One-Pot Sticky Chicken Wings, but it will be worth it. The flavors are amazing.
These sticky wings are coated with a sweet, mildly spicy, Asian flavored sauce, which is reduced as the wings are stirred and tossed in it.
These loaded baked potato breakfast potatoes bring together two of my family's favorite dishes and merge them into one delicious breakfast.
This breakfast burrito has all of the components of twice-baked potato, including cheddar cheese, bacon, chives, butter, and a delicious sour cream sauce.
Cemitas are rolls used for the torta (sandwich) with the same name. They originated as a street food in the historical city of Puebla, Mexico.
The term "cemita" can refer to both the bread and the sandwich.
These buttery ginger shortbread cookies are crispy and crumbly, and are flavored with both candied ginger and vanilla.
A wonderful thing about these cookies is that you can make them on impulse! No chilling of the dough is required. Okay, you do have to let the butter reach room temperature, but if you cut it into pieces, it reaches room temperature pretty quickly.
This Vietnamese coffee cake incorporates the flavor of Vietnamese coffee into an amazing chocolate and coffee dessert.
This cake is not a cake from Vietnam that's served with coffee. Instead, it's a cake topped with an amazing sauce inspired by Vietnamese coffee.
Guava and Cream Cheese Pastelitos are simple to make tasty treats that you can have ready for breakfast, brunch, snack, or dessert in just over a half an hour.
Also known as Pastelitos de guayaba y queso, they are a popular treat from the Caribbean, especially Cuba. They are made with a filling of melted cream cheese and guava paste and are super convenient and amazingly delicious.
These buttermilk crumb muffins, spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, remind me of old school coffee cake.
The flavor of these buttermilk crumb muffins is similar to cinnamon crumb cake doughnuts, or even Snickerdoodles.
I've always wanted to try making pretzel buns. They look so gorgeous with their dark outer crust contrasted against the white interior.
The interior of these pretzel buns, (the buns are also known as laugenbrötchen), is soft and dense, and the crust is thin and crispy, just like a soft pretzel.
This Concorde Cake (Gâteau Concorde) is a fun and delicious cake to make. Plus, it's so rich and chocolatey.
Making this chocolate meringue and mousse cake is a bit of a project, but it's definitely worth it, and most of the time is hands off. It's actually pretty easy to make.
This mixed grains and seeds ciabatta, with a sourdough poolish is a hearty take on the airy Italian "slipper bread."
The goal in making this bread is to add a lot of hearty whole grains and seeds and still capture some of the airy ciabatta-like texture in these loaves.
Kushari (also spelled koshary, koshari, or kushary) is one of the most popular street foods in Egypt. In fact, I've seen it referred to as the national dish of Egypt.
Kushari is typically made with layers of rice, two kinds of pasta, lentils, spicy tomato sauce, chickpeas, and topped with crispy onions.
This bacon and guacamole grilled cheese sandwich will satisfy your craving for something melty, crispy, and irresistable.
This grilled cheese sandwich is made with four kinds of cheese, crispy bacon, and fresh and spicy guacamole.
This easy-to-make pepperoni and mushroom pan pizza has a soft and airy crumb and a crispy outer crust and can be ready to eat in just four hours from start to finish.
This pizza is like a focaccia, with a little less olive oil, topped like a pizza. The dough is super flexible, and can be baked right away or refrigerated and baked the next day.
This homemade taco seasoning mix is easy to put together, and it works just like the taco seasoning you buy in packets.
One batch of this taco seasoning is enough for making six one pound batches of taco meat. I just keep the mixture sealed in the pantry and grab it when I want to make ground beef tacos.
These steamed garlic and chive flower buns contain twists and layers filled with sweet crispy garlic and fresh chopped chives.
These buns are fun to make and delicious to eat. They are made with the dough you would use to make any steamed bun, such as gua bao (the folded bun), mantou (unstuffed), or stuffed steamed buns (baozi).
These Caesar Salad Tartlets with Sweet Garlic Butter Crusts are a wonderful first course to any dinner.
How elegant would it be to serve these Caesar Tartlets with Sweet Garlic Butter Crusts at a dinner party? Your guests would be blown away.
These mini chicken empanadas with cheese and chiles are the perfect game day snack. It was really difficult not to devour more than my share of these when I pulled them out of the oven.
They are ridiculously tasty... and so easy peasy to make!
This Chinese Jamaican Stir-Fried Beef and Carrots recipe is filled with tender marinated beef and crunchy carrots, and tossed in a delicious peppery West Indian hot sauce.
This recipe has a simple list of ingredients and is one of the easiest stir-fry dishes to make. The flavors are a fusion of Chinese and Jamaican ingredients.
These vanilla white chocolate chunk muffins are tender, sweet, and feature a crunchy sparkling sugar topping.
You can actually use this vanilla muffin recipe by itself, or you could substitute dark or milk chocolate chunks for the white chocolate.
This White, Whole Rye, and Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread is a wonderful combination of three kinds of flour.
This bread begins with an active levain (sourdough) and requires a couple of days to complete. The interior is super soft and the crust is very chewy. It makes great deli-style sandwiches.
This white chocolate fudge sauce, with little flecks of vanilla seeds throughout, is wonderful drizzled over ice cream or cakes, or in sandwich cookies.
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This hot fudge sauce, made with vanilla, white chocolate, and homemade marshmallow creme is easy to make and perfect for an ice cream sundae party. It's easy to make ahead and reheat when you are ready for dessert.
This ginger pear cake is loaded with sweet butterscotch pears barely held together with a tasty batter of all-purpose and buckwheat flour and flavored with brandy and and crystalized ginger.
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This is a wonderful snacking cake, and it's also a great way to have cake for breakfast. After all, it's full of fruit just barely held together with batter.
These funfetti conchas are a great take on the Mexican bakery pan dulce, perfect for a birthday breakfast... because sprinkles make everything better!
Conchas are traditionally sold in Mexican panaderías. They consist of a brioche-like roll topped with a sweet crunchy crust carved to look like a shell. The topping is usually flavored with chocolate or vanilla, and typically is pink, brown, or white.
These chocolate "corks" are little bite-sized treats that will satisfy almost anyone's chocolate cravings.
These chocolate corks, or bouchons au chocolat, are deeply flavored with two kinds of dark chocolate plus dark chocolate chips, espresso (to bring out the chocolate flavor), and a little bit of dark rum.
This rotisserie chicken ramen recipe uses readily available ingredients to create a comforting noodle soup.
If you like ramen, but the idea of spending hours making all of the components and hunting down specialty ingredients seems a little daunting, you'll love this soup. The flavors are wonderful and the soup is so easy to make.
This cod soup, inspired by the Good Things Café of West County Cork, Ireland, combines Provençal-style flavors with Irish regional ingredients, especially cod.
Ireland, surrounded by ocean all around, is a seafood rich country, and soups containing fish and shellfish is common along the coasts.
This Greek village bread, or horiatiko psomi (χωριάτικο ψωμί,) is a hearty bread with a crispy crust, perfect for serving with soups, stews, and salads.
This bread gets its gorgeous yellow color from the addition of fine semolina, a flour normally used to make pasta.
Scallion and sesame rolls, with their soft and tender interior and pull-apart deliciousness, are a wonderful addition to your dinner table.
These scallion and sesame rolls are a delicious result of the fusion of the flavors of Hokkaido milk bread dinner rolls, Chinese scallion pancakes, and sesame scallion bread.
The Waterford Blaa is a large, soft, and fluffy roll that is exclusive to Waterford City, Ireland. It is also distinguished by its floury crust.
This bread has achieved PGI (protected geographical indication) status, which is a big deal in the European Union. Any bread sold as a Waterford Blaa must be made by one of the certified bakeries.
Beef Chow Fun (gon chow ngau huo) is a Cantonese noodle dish made with haw fun, noodles made in broad sheets from a rice batter that is steamed on lightly oiled sheet pans.
These haw fun noodles are sold at room temperature on the day they are made, and are best used the same day. You can't really refrigerate them because they will become hard and must be steamed again to soften.
Making your own homemade Spinach and Cheese Ravioli with Tomato Sauce is a fun and tasty adventure.
Homemade pasta has been on my bucket list to make forever. Dried pasta is great for noodles where you like a little chew. Fresh pasta is wonderful for stuffed pasta, where a tender pasta works so nicely, especially when you want to make your own filling.
These churro muffins are filled with the delicious flavors of cinnamon and Mexican vanilla.
These muffins have a super soft and light crumb plus a thin crispy crust on top. They are also filled with a layer of cinnamon sugar and butter mixture in the middle.
This shepherd's pie, made with ground beef and fluffy mashed potatoes, is pure comfort food perfect for the whole family.
How beautiful is the concept of shepherd's pie, especially when the weather is cold and you want something warming that checks all of the comfort food boxes. Plus, it's so retro!
This spelt chocolate and coffee cake (Cake à la Farine d'Épeautre au Chocolat et au Café) is so moist and loaded with the flavors of chocolate and coffee.
Along with the spelt flour, the batter also includes almond flour, espresso, brown sugar, and a generous amount of cocoa powder.
Matar kulcha or chole kulcha is a north Indian street food meal that is a combination of several components, including either white pea "salsa" or white pea curry, and most importantly, kulcha, a delicious yeasted flat bread.
The kulcha is super soft and fluffy with an airy crumb. It puffs up when it is "baking" in the pan, and it is delicious served with matar/chola, which is a "salsa" made with white peas or chick peas, onions, tomatoes, chiles, and ginger.
This Spicy Turkey Sausage and Lentil Soup is a delicious big bowl of comfort. You can make it ahead of time and it tastes just as good, if not better, the next day.
This lentil soup just may become one of your all-time favorite soups. Plus, you probably already have most of the ingredients in your pantry and refrigerator.
Shrimp in a blanket is a crunchy and tasty little appetizer.
Flaounes are a traditional cheese-filled pastry meant to be enjoyed for Easter after weeks of giving up dairy and eggs for Lent.
This bread originates from the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, and is flavored with some ingredients that are unique to the region, such as mahlab, mastic, and a special traditional fresh Cypriot salty goat or sheep's milk cheese called paphitiko.
This Loaded Baked Potato Pizza has all the flavors of your favorite twice-baked potato on a slice of pizza.
If you love twice-baked potatoes, you will adore this pizza.
