These slice and bake iced lime cookies begin with a shortbread-style dough, but they are flavored with fresh lime zest, lime juice, and even lime oil, to bring out the sweet citrusy flavor.
These lime cookies are rolled in sparkling sugar, baked, and then dunked in a lime flavored glaze. Finally, they are finished with more lime zest.
This Parmesan and Thyme Honeynut squash is cooked until it's tender and then it is tossed with Parmesan cheese and roasted until it's crispy.
Once you have prepped the honeynut squash, this side dish takes just 25 minutes to cook, and the resulting side dish will make you very happy with it's sweet and savory flavor. Yep, this squash dish is both sweet/savory and tender/crisp.
This tomatillo salad is bright flavored and refreshing. It's made with a combination of fresh tomatillos and butterhead lettuce and dressed with a creamy tomatillo ranch-style dressing.
Fresh tomatillos are not actually tomatoes despite their appearance and their name. They come in a loose husk, and the skin is slightly sticky. They are actually related to gooseberries (aka golden berries). Typically they are cooked and used to make stews such as pozole verde, enchilada sauce, and chile verde, as well as salsa verde.
This fried rice with crab and peas takes only 20 minutes to make, especially if you have some leftover steamed or Chinese takeout white rice.
It makes a great lunch or dinner with a salad. The ingredients are easy to find and the dish is a lot of fun to make.
These banana apple muffins, with a layer of cinnamon and brown sugar through the middle and a crunchy buttery topping with sugar, flour, cinnamon, and vanilla, are like little single serving coffee cakes!
These banana apple coffee cake muffins are exceptionally moist. After all, they include yogurt, oil, and butter. In addition, there are two bananas and one apple all pureed together and added to the batter. The contrast between the super moist crumb and the crispy topping is just like you'd expect from a slice of coffee cake.
This pear fritter loaf cake combines all of the goodness of a fritter in an easy to make quick bread.
This pear loaf cake is loaded with fresh pear chunks along with vanilla bean paste, a brown sugar cinnamon swirl, and finished with a vanilla glaze. The cake is super moist too.
These apple cookies, with a spicy oat streusel and a cinnamon glaze, are moist and filled with chunks of fresh apple. They are a great for a snack or dessert. The apple flavor is enhanced by the flavors of fall, including cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and brown sugar.
These cookies are easy to make. The hardest part is waiting for them to cool and then for the glaze to set. Everyone who tried these loved them and immediately asked for the recipe.
Sear roasting is a great way to prepare a steak, especially when you are unable to grill outside. By searing the steak on the stove top and then transferring it to a hot oven for just a few minutes, you end up with a steak that is charred on the outside and evenly cooked on the inside.
We enjoyed this steak with French fries and green beans with shallots and tomatoes. It was a tasty meal.
This easy clam chowder is wonderful when the weather gets cooler and you need something warming and easy to put together.
This chowder fits the bill. The broth is a combination of clam juice and the juice from canned tomatoes, and the soup is loaded with goodies such as clams, potatoes, onions, and herbs. Plus, this chowder comes together in about 30 minutes or less.
These frozen chocolate peanut butter truffles are a tasty treat that are like a cross between candy and ice cream.
These frozen truffles are filled with a concoction of whipped cream, peanut butter, and chcolate ganache. They are then chilled and coated in chocolate and sprinkled with chopped peanuts.
This Mexican Street Corn Pizza is inspired by esquites, which is a street corn salad where the vendor strips the corn and adds all of the ingredients into to-go bowl that you can enjoy without eating corn on the cob.
This pizza begins with a Neapolitan style crust, which is thin and crispy and is topped with the corn mixture along with roasted Hatch chiles. I've been on a Hatch chile kick this August, roasting them whenever I can get my hands on them.
These cinnamon crunch bagels are a sweet way to enjoy bagels for breakfast. Your cravings for both a chewy bagel and a sweet way to start the day will be satisfied.
I have a lot of bagel recipes here on this site, including sourdough bagels, New York water bagels, jalapeño bagels, asiago cheese bagels, marbled rye bagels, pretzel bagels, egg bagels, sourdough blueberry bagels, onion bagels, and overnight bagels.
This easy sourdough breakfast bread is great for slicing and toasting, making French toast, and topping with fresh avocado and tomatoes.
If you have an active sourdough starter, you can make this bread, from start to finish, in just about half a day. It's hard to predict the actual timing because there are variables such as room temperature, humidity, and the flour you are using. However, if you start mixing the dough in the morning, you should have a wonderful loaf of bread by the afternoon.
This spicy slaw with red cabbage and mango is crunchy and flavorful, and the mango adds a wonderful sweetness to this salad.
This slaw is refreshing and perfect for serving with grilled steaks, pork chops, short ribs, or spare ribs. You can also serve it with a sandwich for a light lunch.
These Frosted Cake Cookies are soft and chocolatey and topped with a fluffy vanilla frosting and pretty rainbow sprinkles.
The cookies are soft and cake-like, and are loaded with mini chocolate chips. The American-style buttercream frosting is light and fluffy, and is a great vehicle for your favorite sprinkles, especially if you are celebrating someone's birthday.
These Genoise Madeleines are made with a traditional sponge cake batter and are baked in a pan with scallop-shaped cavities. They are perfect little tea cakes just right for dipping.
These cakes are light and airy, but pretty sturdy at the same time. They are made with the same batter you might use to make lady fingers or little sponge cakes for shortcakes.
This cauliflower quiche, with caramelized onions, pancetta, and Gruyère, is one of my favorite takes on quiche, the classic savory egg custard pie.
I just took a quick count and realized this is my tenth quiche recipe that I've posted. Clearly, I love quiches, including ones with smoked salmon, zucchini and onion, and ham and asparagus. I also love mini quiches to serve as appetizers, such as quiche lorraine, shrimp, pancetta and asparagus, and bacon, leek, and cheddar. I've even baked a cheesy vegetable quiche in the air fryer.
Tabatière, or Snuff Box Bread, is a flavorful loaf of bread that gets its name because if looks like a snuff box with a lid. In France, tabatière actually means "snuff box."
I am making this bread with the Bread Baking Babes and our host kitchen is Cathy of Bread Experience. She adapted this bread recipe from the book, The Larousse Book of Bread by Eric Kayser.
This potato salad uses a mixture of white, red, and purple mini potatoes. Add an array of vegetables and Japanese-style flavors for a fabulous potato salad.
I've made Japanese-style potato salad, including one with ham and Yukon Gold potatoes, and one where you can make your own Japanese-style mayo.
This Oven-Roasted Pepper Tart with Prosciutto and Goat Cheese takes advantage of the fresh peppers available right now. Oven roasting the peppers brings out the sweet flavor and adds so much to the texture of the tart.
If you love the sweetened flavor of roasted peppers, you definitely need to make this tart. I slow-roasted the peppers in the oven, placing the pan on the middle rack with the broiler on. This chars the skin of the pepper and also softens and roasts the meat of the pepper over time.
The recipe for this green bean salad with tomatoes, arugula, and basil dressing takes advantage of fresh ingredients that you can find at a farmers' market or your own garden.
This salad is great for a picnic or a party and can easily be made in advance so you can enjoy spending time with your guests rather than being stuck in the kitchen
These roasted Brussels sprouts with bacon will turn anyone into a Brussels sprouts lover.
Roasting brings out the best in brussels sprouts, turning them crisp tender and lightly browned, and with a slightly sweet flavor. If you've only tried steamed or boiled brussels sprouts, give roasted brussels sprouts a try. There is no comparison.
These hot dog flower buns are a Chinese bakery favorite, both in Hong Kong and in Chinatowns across the U.S.
They are typically made with soft milkbread dough created using a tangzhong, which is a mixture of flour and milk or water that is cooked to gelatinize some of the flour to hold extra moisture. It has origins in Japan and then was popularized in Taiwan and Hong Kong in the early 2000s.
This potato, eggplant, tomato, and cheddar gratin is a wonderful summer dish and a great way to take advantage of the bounty of fresh vegetables available this time of year.
This potato and eggplant gratin is a great filling dish that you can serve as a main or side dish. The combination of the potatoes and fresh veggies is totally tasty and also makes great leftovers.
This roasted Chinese Eggplant recipe will transform a simple eggplant into a totally flavorful dish.
Roasting any vegetable totally brings out and intensifies the flavor. This is especially true for eggplant (or aubergine), which can be pretty bland otherwise. This method will produce a tasty side dish that isn't mushy or bland.
Airy Focaccia with Pecorino Romano and Herbs - perfect as a side with dinner, for dipping in oil and balsamic vinegar with cocktails, or for slicing through the middle for sandwiches.
This focaccia is made with a high hydration dough. It takes two days to make, but most of that time is hands off. The dough is easy to work with and is just the right amount for filling a half sheet pan.
Made with sweet fresh corn and roasted sweet peppers, this may be the ultimate summer salad. It's great as a side dish, or when you want something easy and light yet filling, a summer main dish.
This salad recipe includes a vinaigrette of garlic and shallot, citrus, honey, toasted cumin, and extra virgin olive oil. You can toss everything together or serve it in parts, letting your guests make up their own salad with their favorite additions.
Pretzel bagels - The flavor of pretzels in bagel form. These bagels have the flavor of soft pretzels on the outside and they are slightly softer than standard bagels on the inside.
These bagels are tender and soft fresh from the oven with a thin crispy crust. Unlike standard bagels, they are made with all purpose flour rather than bread flour and the dough includes some butter.
This rhubarb and strawberry baked oatmeal is a wonderful and nutrious breakfast. You can assemble and bake it in a little more than an hour, or you can assemble it in advance and bake it the next morning.
The combination of rhubarb and srrawberries is classic, and the added almonds add a tasty crunch.
Taiwanese Castella Cake is a super soft sponge cake that is wonderfully plush and bouncy. It's lightly sweet and delicious on its own or garnished with whipped cream, fruit, confectioners' sugar, honey, or all of the above.
I garnished slices of these cakes with whipped cream and sliced fruit, and it was a huge hit.
These elegant but "easy-to-make" chocolate cherry brownies will have everyone asking you for the recipe. Plus, they are an excellent vehicle for satisfying your chocolate cravings.
If you'd like to serve a dessert that jusr about anyone loves that has been zhuzhed up for your next dinner party, these brownies are the answer. They kind of look rustic too... but the flavor! It's such a surprise.
This pink pineapple sherbet is so refreshing and sweet. Enjoy it in a bowl or an ice cream cone. It's a wonderful treat any season.
July is National Ice Cream Month and we are celebrating by having our annual virtual ice cream social, hosted by Jolene's Recipe Journal. It's the perfect time of year to try a few new homemade ice cream flavors!
These spoon rolls are an easy-to-make dinner roll. They are soft and fluffy on the inside with a thin crispy crust. They are absolutely delicious served hot from the oven with butter.
The flavor is yeasty and reminds me, when buttered, of a fresh and airy crumpet or English muffin, yet even softer in texture.
This Macaroni and Cheese is loaded with gruyére and emmentaler cheese. It is totally decadent. Add cubed ham and some crispy sourdough cubes, and you have a delicious comforting dinner.
This macaroni and cheese includes two of my favorite cheeses, Gruyére and Emmentaler. Gruyére is an amazing cheese that is hard and flavorful, yet it melts so well. It's my favorite for using in quiches, gratins, and breads. It blends well with Emmentaler, often for fondue.
This molasses cornbread is slightly sweet, dense, and moist. It's so easy to make with simple to find ingredients.
This recipe can be traced to Harlem Rennaissance novelist Zora Neale Hurston who was originally from rural Alabama and later spent time in segregated Florida. This cornbread is credited with encouraging her to learn how to walk when she was a baby so that the hogs could not steal her cornbread in her hand.
This Beef Stew with Noodles is an easy meal to put together and is just right when you need a warm comforting dinner.
You can serve this the day you make it, or make it a day in advance, without the noodles, and serve it the next day.
These sourdough corn dogs are a tasty way to use some of your sourdough discard to make everyone's favorite summer snack.
These sourdough corn dogs are perfect for serving as a quick lunch or dinner. You can also make them as an appetizer for a game day party. Set them out on a platter with some mustard and ketchup and watch them disappear.
These coconut shortbread cookies are made with a combination of coconut flour and either wheat flour or gluten free flour along with butter and sugar.
These are my first attempt at working with coconut flour as a substitute for "regular" flour. I dipped them in chocolate and added sprinkles to celebrate the summer season.
These Canadian butter tarts are an iconic mini dessert made with a pastry shell and filled with a sweet caramel-ish filling that is semi-soft and full of buttery flavor.
These tarts are similar to pecan tassies, which are an old fashioned American dessert often served during the holidays. The difference is, that in the case of the Canadian butter tarts, the filling is often left plain, or with very little add-ins.
This is a lovely little butter cake with a topping of fresh rhubarb and pecan caramel laced with a bit of bourbon.
The cake itself is amazing. I can think of so many things I would like to try out with this batter. Add the rhubarb, bourbon, and pecan mixture and these cakes are over the top amazing.
These sweetened condensed milk cookies are soft and slightly chewy and have a sweet vanilla flavor.
These condensed milk cookies are like a cross between a snickerdoodle and a sugar cookie with a flavor similar to tres leches cake or no churn vanilla ice cream.
These are pineapple filled nidos (nests). They're made with a Mexican pan dulce dough, a yeasted dough that you can also use to make conchas, (shells), and other Mexican pan dulce, and then fill with a sweet pineapple filling.
For the dough, you can use a pan dulce dough, such as the one I used for funfetti conchas. It's very much like brioche or challah, super rich and yet very light. There is also a wonderful recipe in the book, The Mexican Bakery by Alex Peña. You can use it to make any form of bizcocho, which is a descentant of French brioche.
These Norwegian sun buns, known as solskinnsboller or solboller, are made with a buttery cardamom dough, filled with cinnamon sugar, and topped with a vanilla custard.
While I skipped this step, I've also seen these drizzled with a thin vanilla glaze.
This recipe for these spiced lamb dumplings is inspired from Nepal and combines many of the spices of India and Tibet.
If you love Asian-style dumplings, you will enjoy making these. They are filled with a spicy lamb and onion mixture that also includes chiles and lots of spices. These are typically served with a tomato dipping sauce.
This lentil, sweet pepper, spinach, and linguica dish is a wonderful combination of ingredients and flavors.
This lentil and spinach dish is loaded with protein, fiber, and nutrients.. and it's delicious too. There's no guilt in going back for seconds.
Girelles are an Italian breakfast pastry made with sweet laminated croissant - style dough and filled with cinnamon and raisins.
These pastries are made with half of the same dough as the cornetti, or Italian croissants I recently posted. I was so happy with how the dough came together that I decided to make these girelles.
This watermelon radish and cucumber salad with red onion and fresh dill is a classic combination of ingredients for serving as a summer side dish.
Bring this salad to a family barbecue or get together, or serve it for lunch on a hot summer day for a refreshing, cooling, and nutritional dish.
These carrot cake muffins are super moist and easy to make too. They are a great way to sneak in cake for breakfast.
These muffins have all of the signature spices of carrot cake. With a combination of oil, milk, and sour cream in the batter, they are super tender and stay fresh and moist for several days.
These individual no bake key lime pies are so refreshing and super easy to make.
You can assemble these in minutes, give them a chill in the refrigerator, and serve them for a fun dessert for your family or an elegant dessert for a dinner party. With no need to turn on your oven, this is a wonderful summer treat.
This Spicy Mini Cucumber Salad is crisp and refreshing, and wonderful as a summertime side dish.
These mini cucumbers are flavored with a chili crisp, rice vinegar, and sesame oil dressing, giving them an Asian-inspired flavor. This salad goes so well with grilled meats, seafood, and poultry. It's also a great side for braised meats such as short ribs or brisket.
