Herb and Wine Poached Shrimp with Homemade Cocktail Sauce

This Herb and Wine Poached Shrimp with Homemade Cocktail Sauce is perfect for entertaining and super easy to make.

This shrimp cocktail is a little more work than setting out precooked shrimp with bottled cocktail sauce, but it's almost as easy.

Homemade Peanut Butter Cups {Copycat}

These homemade Peanut Butter Cups, filled with a dough-like peanut butter filling, will pretty much blow your mind. 

The filling for these copycat Reese's peanut butter cups has a secret ingredient which takes the texture and flavor to a whole new level.

Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies

These Mexican hot chocolate cookies are deeply chocolaty, and spiced with cinnamon, cayenne pepper, and black pepper. 

The edges of these Mexican chocolate cookies are coated in a mixture of cinnamon and sanding sugar to add some crunch and sparkle.

Brown Rice Pilaf with Shrimp, Scallions, and Snow Peas

Brown Rice Pilaf with Shrimp, Scallions, and Snow Peas - Brown rice simmered in stock and tossed with shrimp, snow peas, scallions, and garnished with cilantro. 

Brown rice is whole grain rice that still has its bran. It is chewier than white rice, and has a nuttier flavor. Any color whole grain rice is considered "brown rice," and can be used in this recipe.

Baked Doughnuts with Currants

Baked currant doughnuts - these light yeasted doughnuts and doughnut holes are baked, brushed with melted butter, and dredged in sugar.

These doughnuts are delicious warm from your oven. They are more "bread-like" than deep fried doughnuts, and they are lighter and airier than the baked doughnuts that have baking powder for leavening that you bake in a special pan.

Shio Ramen with Turkey Broth and Chicken Chashu

This shio ramen with turkey broth and chicken chashu began with leftover Thanksgiving turkey. 

I innocently decided that I would try to make homemade ramen in order to create a soup with my leftover turkey carcass from Thanksgiving.

Chocolate Espresso Mousse

Chocolate espresso mousse with bittersweet chocolate, espresso, cream, and topped with a dark chocolate-covered coffee bean. 

These chocolate espresso mousse (or is it mousses?) take very little effort to make, yet they are an elegant, dinner party worthy dessert.