This sourdough pizza bianca is leavened with a sourdough starter and is made entirely by hand with the no-knead method.
This pizza bianca is an attempt to recreate the pizza bianco alla Romano from Forno Campo de' Fiori, a bakery in Rome that serves pizza by the slice.
These teriyaki chicken cups are a fun way to combine a few simple ingredients to make a tasty little main dish for dinner!
With about 10 minutes of prep time, and 20 to 25 minutes of baking time, you can get dinner on the table in about 30 to 45 minutes from start to finish.
Cheesy Butternut Squash Pasta - an easy to prepare one-pot meal or side dish that is ready for the table in about 40 minutes.
The butternut squash in this pasta dish, combined with the Parmesan cheese, adds so much creaminess that there is no need for added milk or cream to create a sauce. The cheese and the squash, along with the pasta, do all of the heavy lifting.
This arugula, apple, and fennel salad is tossed with a wonderful citrus dressing and served with toasty crostini topped with a melty three-cheese spread.
This salad, dressed with mix of shallots, lime juice, lemon juice, honey, Dijon, extra-virgin olive oil, and salt and white pepper, is amazingly flavorful.
These individual pizzas include a cheesy Alfredo sauce, pancetta, and roasted thinly sliced brussels sprouts.
I love pizzas that are layered with veggies that you don't traditionally think of when you think about pizza. The vegetables get all roasty and the pizzas often include different cheeses and/or sauces that bring in unexpected flavors.
If you love hash brown potatoes, this is one of the easiest ways to make them at home. They turn out crispy on the outside and creamy on the inside, exactly the way you want them.
This hash brown potato waffle recipe also gives you a great reason to own a waffle iron. It's no longer a single use kitchen electric!
These Pan-Seared Scallops with Black Beans and Red Pepper Sauce can be served either as an appetizer, first course, or main course.
This tasty and colorful seafood dish takes just about 35 minutes to make and it's wonderful for a light dinner with friends.
These small-batch chocolate chip and pecan banana muffins are loaded with chocolate chips and pecans, plus, they are a great way to use up that last banana!
These are pretty much portable mini banana breads in muffin form, but the chocolate chip and pecan to bread ratio is much higher, perfect for chocolate and pecan lovers.
This Mexican Street Corn Salad takes the flavors from the grilled corn (elotes) that is sold by street vendors in Mexico (and here in parts of Los Angeles) and incorporates them into a delicious salad.
Mexican street corn is grilled corn that is slathered in a mixture of mayonnaise, cotija cheese, chili, and lime and then sold on the cob. There's also a version of street corn, called esquites, where the food vendor strips the corn from the cob, tosses the ingredients, and serves it in a plastic cup.
Make this blackberry-lime breakfast cake and watch it disappear. It is loaded with two heaping baskets of blackberries, and the batter is flavored with the zest of two limes.
This breakfast cake comes together in just a few minutes, and takes about 45 minutes to bake. It's kind of like making a giant muffin!
This eggplant gratin is an easy-to-make cheesy side dish that everyone will love.
Serve this eggplant gratin as a side dish or even as a light main course. I love it with warm sourdough bread slices on the side for dipping in the sauce.
Coco bread is a soft and slightly sweet Caribbean bread made with flour, yeast, coconut milk, and a little bit of sugar.
Coconut milk is a surprisingly wonderful addition to this bread. It adds a tiny hint of coconut flavor that is almost indiscernible. It's more fragrance than flavor and the coconut flavor is super mild. In fact, if you aren't told about the coconut milk, you might not even be able to tell.
This whole wheat quinoa bread is packed with high protein quinoa and flax seeds.
This whole wheat quinoa bread is wonderful sliced and buttered, and also makes delicious avocado toast.
This sourdough country bread is made with sourdough discard. To make this delicious bread, you don't have to worry about making sure your sourdough starter is perfectly ready when you mix it into your dough.
This Easy Sourdough Country Bread is so hands-off, and you make it with just five ingredients... bread flour, whole wheat flour, water, salt, and sourdough discard.
This savory vegetable tart consists of a crispy buttery pre-baked phyllo crust filled with a warm mixture of sauteed vegetables, thyme, and goat cheese.
The tender vegetables, combined with the goat cheese and seasoned with black pepper and thyme, are so flavorful.
This mango salsa is so refreshing, spicy, and fabulous as a dip with chips or as a topping for grilled seafood or fish tacos.
When mangoes are available, I love to make this mango salsa. It's great for a snack with chips, on salads, and as a topping for grilled fish or chicken. It's so juicy too, and, just like my recipe for grilled pineapple salsa, this salsa adds some acid to your favorite short rib or carnitas tacos.
Vietnamese Chicken Salad (Goi Ga) is a refreshing warm weather no cook recipe that is a popular dish in both South Vietnam and in U.S. Little Saigon communities. Goi Ga actually means "chicken salad."
This crunchy and spicy salad is filled with shredded chicken, cabbage, carrots, chiles, and lots of fresh herbs. It's also dressed with a sweet, salty, spicy, and tangy dressing.
If you love grabbing the warm breadsticks from the bread basket of your favorite Italian restaurant the minute they place them on the table, you'll love these herb and asiago cheese breadsticks.
These breadsticks are loaded with three types of fresh herbs; basil, parsley, and oregano. Plus, the asiago cheese is both in the dough and on the crust of the breadsticks.
This sourdough beer bread has a lovely and distinctly sourdough flavor from the combination of the beer and the fermented dough.
The beer in this recipe replaces the usual water in a sourdough bread recipe. This seems to strengthen the sourdough flavor of the loaf. Plus, the bread seems to gain more tang over time.
These pork carnitas, first pressure-cooked until tender and juicy and then crisped on the edges with their own rendered fat in a hot skillet, are rich, meaty, and succulent.
Think tender pork butt cooked in flavorful spices, a little water, and its own rendered fat until it falls apart and is infused with flavor. It's perfect for tacos served with Mexican Red Rice and beans.
These chocolate almond muffins are moist and exceptionally and deeply chocolatey.
There's a bakery and café in Santa Monica California called Huckleberry Café. In 2014, Zoe Nathan wrote a cookbook, Huckleberry: Stories, Secrets, and Recipes from Our Kitchen. It's a gorgeous book filled with amazing photos and recipes. It's also a great read.
This blackberry margarita is super refreshing and it gets most of its sweetness from fresh blackberries.
Rather than the usual sweet and sour mix, it has a little added frozen limeade concentrate along with fresh lime juice. The flavor from lots of fresh blackberry juice shines through.
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.
