Making this silky smooth and creamy cranberry posset only requires three ingredients; heavy cream, sugar, and unsweetened cranberry juice.
Posset is a pretty magical dessert. It will remind you of a mousse, pudding, or panna cotta, but you don't need any eggs, gelatin, starch, or other thickeners. The magic lies in the combination of the boiled cream and the acid in the juice that causes the proteins in the cream to thicken.
This peach streusel cake is loaded with fresh juicy peaches and is topped with crispy oat streusel.
The cake is also faintly spiced with aromatic ginger, cardamom, and cinnamon. It's super moist and delicious both warm and at room temperature. While it's wonderful for dessert, you can also enjoy it for breakfast, brunch (with a mimosa of course) with family and friends, or a snack while bingeing your favorite mini-series.
This lemon blueberry semifreddo is a sweet and airy frozen dessert beginning with a lemony vanilla base and filled with roasted blueberries.
Take advantage of fresh blueberry season and try this classic Italian dessert, semifreddo.
Pâté Châud, or Bánh Paté Sô, are little savory puff pastries, and they are sold in the pastry shops of Little Saigon, a community spanning Westminster and Garden Grove in Southern California, home to the largest concentration of people of Vietnamese descent outside of Vietnam.
These pate chaud (pronounced ba-tay show and meaning "hot pie") are a tasty snack or appetizer and often enjoyed with a cup of Vietnamese coffee.
This blueberry muffin cake is loaded with blueberries, lemon zest, and will remind you of your favorite blueberry muffins.
Think of this as the perfect excuse for having cake for breakfast.
For a huge cheesy and flavorful loaf of bread, try this roasted onion and asiago miche.
This is an extra large loaf of bread that is loaded with three types of onions along with a generous amount of asiago cheese. It's also topped with lots more cheese along with roasted onions.
These cherry chocolate cookies are filled with sour cherry jam, dried cherries, and mini chocolate chips. They are totally cherry forward.
Between the cherry preserves and the dried cherries, you cannot miss the amazing cherry flavor.
This fresh fig margarita is a tasty twist on everyone's favorite salty-rimmed tequila and lime cocktail.
I decided to try this fresh Fig Margarita when my cousin gave me a precious bag of four perfectly ripe figs from her Mission Fig tree. If you get perfectly ripe figs, you need to use them right away. It was the weekend, so why not a cocktail?
This cognac ice cream may look like vanilla ice cream, but it packs a tasty punch from cognac.
This cognac ice cream is an excellent dessert for a grownups' summer gathering. It's also fabulous during the holidays for topping pecan, pumpkin, or sweet potato pie.
These milkbread doughnuts, made with a tangzhong, are just about the softest, lightest, and most heavenly doughnuts you'll ever make.
If you've ever made a bread with a tangzhong (a small amount of the flour and milk and water in the dough that is cooked and cooled), you know about the light and fluffy results in rolls, sandwich bread, bao buns, and even hot dog buns. Why not doughnuts?
These blueberry pecan rugelach are perfect for celebrating the wonderful blueberries available this time of year.
These rugelach are super tender, just slightly sweet, and filled with a mixture of freshly-made blueberry jam and pecan meal. They're really hard to resist.
Chili macaroni and cheese, or cheesy chili mac, combines the best of two comfort food worlds, chili and macaroni and cheese.
One of my favorite chilis is prepared on the stove top or in a slow cooker. My favorite macaroni and cheese is baked in the oven. How do you marry them? You make chili mac!
These homemade Fig Newtons are a really fun project with totally tasty results.
I'm super excited at how these little fig cakes turned out. They are filled with a homemade jam made from dried figs. Plus, to make this even more interesting, I actually dried my own fresh figs that I had received from Melissa's Produce a while back. The homemade dried figs were just looking for a recipe!
These sweet and hot fried chicken wings are totally worth the extra effort that it takes to deep fry at home.
These wings, with their sweet, hot, and savory flavors, are fried until crispy yet light, and then tossed in a sauce with Thai flavors that includes Sriracha sauce along with Thai sweet chili sauce.
These pecan pie muffins are basically pecan pie filling in muffin form, and they are amazingly easy to make.
With only five ingredients (six if you count the nonstick spray oil for the muffin pan liners), these muffins are simple to make and reminiscient of your favorite holiday pecan pie.
These barbecue pork and shrimp egg rolls are a super flavorful and crunchy snack, appetizer, or even main dish. Plus, they are fun to make!
Pork and Shrimp Egg Rolls are such a quintessential Chinese take-out appetizer. They are also one of my favorite comfort foods.
This ham, shrimp, and Chinese sausage fried rice is a fast and easy way to toss together a wonderful and flavorful dish. It comes together in just a few minutes.
This fried rice recipe is wonderful with these specific ingredients, but you could also use the instructions for this fried rice to create your own version.
Brown butter snickerdoodle cake.. a cinnamon swirled cake made with browned butter in the batter and topped with a cinnamon and vanilla buttercream.
This cake incorporates the flavors of the snickerdoodle cookie into a tasty single layer cake. You only need a 9-inch by 9-inch square cake pan, and the only time you need a mixer is to beat the buttercream frosting.
Muesli is a cold Swiss breakfast dish with a mixture of toasted grains, nuts and seeds, dried and fresh fruit, yogurt, milk, and honey.
It's a hearty and delicious breakfast that you mix the night before to soften the grains and then serve the next morning. This version includes toasted oats, wheat germ, and other goodies, and will last in the refrigerator for up to three days.
This small batch Detroit-style pizza with hot honey, jalapeños, and pepperoni (honeypeño) pizza is a uniquely flavorful take on the Detroit pizza.
This pizza is so easy to make and will have you fighting for the last piece.
This Chinese Chicken Salad is a fresh and flavorful mix of chicken, crunchy vegetables, and a dressing of an emulsion of soy and two chile sauces, sesame oil, garlic, ginger, and rice vinegar.
This Chinese chicken salad is layered with shredded chicken breast, chopped napa cabbage, hearts of romaine, snow peas, and scallions and then everything is tossed together with sliced almonds, toasted sesame seeds, and a bold and flavorful dressing.
Enjoy these soft and fluffy sambal oelek milk bread rolls for breakfast, with dinner, or tasty mid-afternoon snack.
These sambal oelek milk buns are super fluffy with a light and pillowy texture. The bread is slightly sweet and the rolls are lighter than air when you pick them up. They're easy to pull apart in thin layers.
These dry-fried Sichuan beans are intensely flavorful.
"What is dry stir-frying?" you ask. It's a technique (gon chau) that intensifies flavors by slightly charring ingredients over lower heat over a longer period of time.
This barbecued pork lo mein is a wonderful Chinese take-out style dinner that will satisfy your cravings.
This barbecue pork lo mein is one of my favorite Chinese take-out style dishes that you can easily make at home.
This frozen mango float is an ice cream-like take on a refreshing Filipino dessert.
The mango float, also known as crema de mangga or mango royale, is similar to an ice box cake. It includes layers of Graham crackers, sweetened whipped cream, and fresh chopped mango. It's a wonderful way to enjoy fresh, ripe mangoes.
These Ham and Cheese Rye Muffins are a wonderful take on the ham and cheese on rye sandwich. They are also a great portable breakfast.
These ham and cheese rye muffins are made with whole grain rye flour, bread flour, as well as ham and cheese.
This elderflower martini is a refreshing combination of elderflower liqueur, vodka, and lime, with a garnish of fresh mint.
The elderflower martini is a wonderfully refreshing cocktail, perfect for spring and summer. The combination of the flavors of the elderflower liqueur and the fresh squeezed lime juice along with the hint of mint is both fruity and floral.
Kung Pao Chicken is one of my all time favorite stir fries, and this is the absolute best version I have tried so far.
I love the underlying heat, the amazing sauce, and, of course, the peanuts.
Strawberry lemonade cake with strawberry marshmallow frosting - a moist lemon cake studded with fresh strawberries and topped with a billowy frosting flavored with strawberry jam.
This cake is filled with fresh lemon zest, and then topped with fresh strawberry halves before baking. Next, the cake is brushed with a lemon syrup soaker once it has cooled.
These Strawberry Cheesecake Bars are so creamy and decadent. Add the toasted pecan and butter cookie crust, and you will have a hard time resisting slicing off "just a leetle bit more" every time you pass by the pan.
The first time I made these bars, I took them to work and they immediately disappeared. I've since retired, so this time my neighbors, kids, and grandkids, and their friends are the recipients. No matter who gets a taste, these bars are still a big hit.
This spicy corn pizza with mozzarella and smoked cheddar cheese is slightly sweet from the fresh corn and caramelized onions, yet it has a kick from a few drizzles of chili garlic sauce.
I fell in love with this pizza at first bite. The crisp-tender corn nestled in the cheeses turned out to be a wonderful way to top a thin Neapolitan-style crust.
This hot pepper beef is a wonderful Chinese-style stir-fry that you can make in just a few minutes with easy-to-find ingredients.
This stir-fried hot pepper beef is one of my all-time favorite stir-fries. The dish is super easy to make, the ingredients are easily found in your grocery store, and the resulting flavor is so amazing.
This melon, jícama, and pineapple salad is a refreshing addition to a Mexican or Latin American-inspired breakfast or brunch.
This fruit salad, with three types of melon, plus jicama and pineapple, is tossed with a citrus-y and spicy dressing. It reminds me of the street food salads you can pick up at fruit stands in Los Angeles area Latino (and other) neighborhoods.
These Johnnycake cobblers start with a layer of sweetened stone fruit and then are topped with a crunchy, sweet, and tender cornmeal biscuit.
Johnnycake cobblers are from the traditional American rustic biscuit-topped family of fruit desserts.
This mocha latte coffee cake is a coffee cake that actually includes coffee (along with chocolate, cinnamon, vanilla, and a pretty amazing pecan streusel)!
This mocha latte coffee cake is a great way to get your morning coffee and cake along with a little chocolate together at the same time!
These tiny homemade Pop Tarts are so fun to eat and totally "pop-able." They are perfect for a party, especially for a brunch.
These tiny pop-tarts, or "pop-tart bites," are a fun treat to serve for breakfast or brunch. Just use your favorite store-bought or homemade pie crust, fill it with your favorite jam, and top it with a bit of royal icing and your favorite sprinkles.
These polvorones de naranja are Mexican cookies flavored with orange three ways. They're super fluffy and cakelike, and not overly sweet.
Polvorones are a Mexican sugar or shortbread cookie. According to the collective brains of Wikipedia, they are derived from a Spanish cookie. In the United States, they are often referred to as Mexican wedding cookies.
These cereal milk muffins, flavored with the "essence" of your favorite breakfast cereal, are moist and fluffy, and totally fun to make, serve, and eat.
Cereal milk is the flavored milk left behind after finishing your breakfast cereal. I'm pretty sure a lot of kids finished all of the milk in their cereal bowl because of it.
You need to try these stir-fried cellophane noodles with enoki mushrooms, carrots, and snow peas tossed in a flavorful sauce of chicken broth, soy sauce, garlic, and toasted sesame oil. They're soooo good!
The transparent noodles absorb the wonderful flavors from the sauce. This stir-fry is super easy and amazingly delicious.
Pane di Genzano is a wonderful soft country bread, ideal for a picnic in the Italian countryside with cheese and salami.
This Pane di Genzano comes with a crunchy and thick crust which belies its super soft interior.
This garlic and vegetable cheese spread is so flavorful on crackers, bagels, rye toast, and crudités.
This garlic and vegetable cheese spread is really easy to throw together at the last minute, yet it's elegant enough for a dinner party.
This cinnamon roll cake, filled with a cinnamon strawberry jam, is actually two giant cinnamon rolls stacked on top of each other and drizzled with a lemony glaze.
This "cake" begins with two eight-inch yeasted cinnamon rolls baked in cake pans. The rolls are filled with a cinnamon-y strawberry jam, rolled up, baked, and drizzled with a lemony cream cheese glaze.
These chouriço stuffed bolos do caco are a delicious twist on the traditional Madieran sweet potato flatbread.
Bolo do Caco originated in the Portuguese islands of Madiera, off of the coast of Africa. They are a flatbread that also includes sweet potatoes, which evidently do very well on the island and also help stretch a limited supply of wheat.
This El Pollo Loco Chicken Tortilla Soup is an amazing meal in a bowl.
I love, love, love this chicken tortilla soup. It's loaded with shredded chicken and pico de gallo, and is topped with crispy tortilla strips.
Cauliflower Cheese is a delicious dish of cauliflower baked in the cheesiest cheddar sauce until it is bubbly and golden.
Cauliflower cheese is the name for an English dish. No, it's not cheese made from cauliflower. It's cauliflower smothered in a sauce loaded with real cheddar cheese, and then baked. Along with the cheese, it's flavored with mustard powder and ground cayenne.
This harissa chicken with potatoes, leeks, and a garlicky yogurt sauce is simple to make and can be ready in less than 90 minutes. It's a perfect "dinner for four" meal all in one pan. All you need is a salad and rolls and you're set!
This spelt, barley, and white rustic loaf is super easy to make in a morning or afternoon and is a pretty failproof way to capture the flavors of whole spelt and barley while using the structure that bread flour provides.
This spelt and barley bread recipe takes advantage of the wonderful flavors of ancient grains while still maintaining the structure of an airy artisan loaf.
This beer brat (or smoked sausage) corn chowder is a delicious midwestern-style soup. It's loaded with sausage, corn, cheese, and beer. It's creamy, cheesy, and hearty.
This beer and smoked sausage corn chowder is smoky, cheesy, and loaded with fresh sweet corn. A bowl of this chowder is super filling. All you need is a salad, a glass of wine, and maybe a slice of bread, and you have lunch or dinner.
This big ice cream taco is the perfect dessert for April Fools' Day or Cinco de Mayo. Your guests will be wondering "how did they do that?"
This giant ice cream taco dessert will feed a dinner party full of friends and family. It's like a giant ice cream sandwich... Except it looks like a taco!
These gyoza wrapper pizza bites are so easy to make and super fun to eat for an appetizer or snack. Plus, they only take minutes to assemble and bake.
I know the flavor combination may sound weird but trust me, it's really good.
