These chocolate covered sandwich cookies with dulce de leche have roots in Argentina, where soft sandwich cookies filled with dulce de leche are a popular sweet treat.
These cookies are similar to my orange-scented alfajores, but with a chocolate ganache coating. In addition, these cookies include a lot of whole wheat flour and are only lightly sweet to counteract the dulce de leche and the ganache.
This Rosemary Lemon Pain de Campagne is a large, naturally leavened loaf flavored with fresh rosemary, lemon zest, and extra virgin olive oil.
The Bread Baking Babes are baking versions of Pain de Campagne. Our host kitchen is My Kitchen in Half Cups. This marks 18 years of baking bread together.
These Chinese Almond Cookies are a tasty take on the traditional Chinese take-out cookie that symbolizes good fortune and good luck, especially for the Lunar New Year.
The round cookies represent coins and the almonds on top represent good luck.
Serve these extra gooey sticky buns for a special breakfast for Valentine's Day for your whole family or for that special someone.
These sticky buns begin with an extra buttery brioche dough that is amazingly soft and tender. The dough is layered with cinnamon sugar and toasted pecans, and then is baked in a spectacular honey and brown sugar caramel sauce and topped with more toasted pecans.
This Spaghetti with Breadcrumbs, Garlic, and Olive Oil is a rustic and wonderful take on the classic dish spaghetti aglio e olio, or spaghetti with garlic and oil, from Naples, Italy.
This pasta dish is pure comfort in a bowl and is wonderful served as a simple and romantic dinner for two along with a salad or a vegetable.
This corn sauté with pancetta, potatoes, and peppers is a hearty side dish that goes perfectly with fried chicken, fish, or a juicy steak.
This sautéed corn is so savory and buttery. You can serve it either hot or at room temperature, making it great for potlucks, picnics, or barbecues. You will definitely not regret making extra.
This pineapple and avocado salsa is so simple to make and wonderful for dipping, adding to tacos and nachos, and totally refreshing for topping grilled fish such as salmon or halibut.
I've tried this pineapple avocado salsa four ways. First, with homemade tortilla chips for dipping, later for topping pan seared cod, and with sourdough toast, like dressed up avocado toast, for breakfast. Finally, I stirred a little into some scrambled eggs. Everything was totally tasty.
Bouchon Bakery Shortbread Cookies - they are so simple, yet they can be so elegant, and they are perfect for a simple dessert, a snack, or for gifting.
These shortbread cookies are a magical combination of flour, butter, sugar, vanilla bean paste, and kosher salt. You can make the dough in advance and refrigerate or freeze it, making baking ahead that much easier. The baked cookies can also be frozen.
With just a few ingredients, you can make this butternut squash and sausage soup in your slow cooker.
You can prep the ingredients in the morning and serve this soup for lunch by noon. Start a little bit later in the day and you can enjoy this soup for dinner. The spicy sausage, combined with the butternut squash, brings so much flavor to this easy soup.
This Black Bean Salad with Corn, Avocados, Tomatoes, and Red Onions is a hearty main course salad or side dish that is both refreshing and filling.
I originally served this salad with cornbread aebleskivers and the combination was great. If you don't want to attempt the aebleskivers (they require a special pan), you conld serve these with a hearty and cheesy cornbread and a green salad.
Making homemade caramel popcorn is a fun project that results and a sweet and crispy snack that everyone loves.
This caramel popcorn (caramel corn) is such a treat and is totally hard to resist. It stays crispy and fresh for several days, and is pretty enough to package up for gifts or party favors.
This parmesan thyme popcorn with browned butter recipe is a great way to dress up plain popcorn for a party.
This popcorn is lightly buttered with browned butter flavored with minced garlic and fresh thyme and then tossed with freshly grated Parmesan cheese.
These whole wheat rolls are wonderful dipped in soups and stews. They also are great for making mini sandwiches and sliders.
These rolls, despite being loaded with whole wheat flour, are amazingly light and airy, and they have a pretty complex flavor. They are faintly sweet, and also have a hint of sourdough.
I am absolutely crazy about this Potato Pizza. The crust is super crunchy and the potatoes are incredibly tasty.
Amazingly, the pizza is simply topped with thinly sliced potatoes, diced onions, black pepper, and rosemary, all tossed in olive oil.
While these tasty Argentine-style burgers with chimichurri sauce might be a little more work than making a standard burger, they are worth the extra effort.
The beef for these burgers includes a few mix-ins, including onions, garlic, jalapeño, as well as cumin, oregano, and cilantro. After cooking, they are topped with a tasty chimichurri sauce that takes just a few minutes to make.
These maple pecan oatmeal scones are a wonderful way to start your day. You get all of the goodness of oatmeal in a tender scone.
These oatmail scones are fabulous for breakfast. While they contain maple in the scone and the glaze, they aren't overly sweet at all. They also have a wonderful toasted oats flavor and also include toasted pecans. After totally enjoying oat-filled gingerbread scones earlier this fall, I definitely needed to give another oatmeal scone recipe a try.
