You can make these mini ice cream cakes with any flavor ice cream and cake you like. They are great for a birthday party, dinner party, or just to have individual-sized desserts in your freezer as a fun treat.
These are a great make-ahead dessert. You can serve them directly from the freezer without any extra preparation too.
This pasta dish with green beans and ricotta is a wonderful side dish or even a great main dish. The pasta and the beans are tossed with lots of Parmesan or Romano cheese and herbs, and then combined with generous dollops of ricotta cheese.
This pasta dish is pure comfort food. It's creamy, a little bit spicy, and loaded with freshly blanched French green beans cut into one inch pieces. You can even eat it from a bowl with a spoon while streaming your favorite show.
This carrot and cheddar gratin is easy to make and makes an impressive and amazing side dish for when company's coming for brunch or dinner.
This carrot gratin begins with carrots steeped in cream and lightly browned onions, topped with cheddar cheese and buttered and herbed bread crumbs, and then baked until golden-brown.
These potatoes boulangère are a wonderful lightened up potato dish. You can serve these potatoes for dinner as a side for roasts, steaks and chops, and poultry, or as a side dish for a celebratory brunch.
With Mother's Day, Father's Day, and graduation celebrations coming up, save this recipe and add these potatoes to your menu.
Dress up your brunch table with these Cranberry and Pixie Tangerine scones. They are easy to make and super flavorful.
These scones are tender and citrusy. They are soft and moist on the inside with crispy crumbly edges. They are tasty on their own or split and spread with butter or jam.
These green beans with shallots and tomatoes make a wonderful vegetable dish that you'll be tempted to eat with your fingers, kind of like French fries.
I know this is pretty much a side dish, but I first enjoyed it on its own for a light lunch accompanied by a tasty buttered Italian croissant, and it was plenty. Of course, my portion was a bowlful, and I'm not ashamed.
This summer squash succotash is a great recipe for using all of the wonderful produce that your garden produces in the summer.
While I don't have room for a garden, I am just lucky enough to have a cousin who is a horticultural genius, and grows an amazing variety of fresh produce in her almost cantilevered hillside garden.
This yeasted honey cornbread is a cross between a sandwich bread and a slice of sweet corn bread you might enjoy at a barbecue.
This bread will remind you of sweet cornbread. In fact, if you're in the sweet cornbread camp, you definitely need to try this bread with a big bowl of chili or a plateful of ribs. Definitely slather warm slices with honey butter for a heavenly experience. The sweet corn flavor comes through.
This honeynut squash soup with apple and bacon is velvety and smoky with sweet notes from the honeynut squash and the apple.
This soup takes less than 45 minutes to make and is wonderful for lunch with a salad or for dinner as a first course or the vegetable course. It is also easy to make in advance and reheat for later, although it won't last long once you taste it. We polished this soup off in no time.
These cornetti dolci are slightly sweet, light, and amazingly airy. They are wonderful filled with jam or dusted with powdered sugar, or both!
These cornetti are made with a laminated dough, similar to croissants. From what I understand, both cornetti and croissants have similar roots. Cornetti, besides being Italian and not French, typically tend to be slightly sweeter, have eggs in the dough, are a little fatter in the middle, and often are baked with fillings such as apricot jam, almond paste, or pastry cream.
This stir-fried cilantro with bean sprouts and shrimp takes just minutes to make, and the results are fresh and flavorful.
This stir-fry is amazing. It is a vegetable dish with about 8 ounces of small shrimp. The only seasonings you will need are fresh ginger and garlic, plus a little salt and sugar.
This Asian Pear Slaw is a refreshing and light make-ahead salad that stays crunchy and sweet in the fridge until you are ready to serve it.
This Asian pear salad is wonderful as a side dish to meats, fried chicken, and barbecue fare. It's so refreshing.
These pancakes with maple honey syrup are a copycat of the ones people line up for at the Golden Diner in New York City's Chinatown. They are big and fluffy and topped with a fruit compote, maple honey butter, and smothered in a maple honey syrup.
These pancakes are made with a yeasted batter and are cooked in individual skillets. They are so thick that they are finished in the oven so that they are cooked all the way through. The pancakes are tall like Japanese pancakes, but a little more sturdy.
