Adventures in cooking and baking.
This ginger pear cake is loaded with sweet butterscotch pears barely held together with a tasty batter of all-purpose and buckwheat flour and flavored with brandy and and crystalized ginger.
This is a wonderful snacking cake, and it's also a great way to have cake for breakfast. After all, it's full of fruit just barely held together with batter.
These funfetti conchas are a great take on the Mexican bakery pan dulce, perfect for a birthday breakfast... because sprinkles make everything better!
Conchas are traditionally sold in Mexican panaderías. They consist of a brioche-like roll topped with a sweet crunchy crust carved to look like a shell. The topping is usually flavored with chocolate or vanilla, and typically is pink, brown, or white.
These chocolate "corks" are little bite-sized treats that will satisfy almost anyone's chocolate cravings.
These chocolate corks, or bouchons au chocolat, are deeply flavored with two kinds of dark chocolate plus dark chocolate chips, espresso (to bring out the chocolate flavor), and a little bit of dark rum.
This rotisserie chicken ramen recipe uses readily available ingredients to create a comforting noodle soup.
If you like ramen, but the idea of spending hours making all of the components and hunting down specialty ingredients seems a little daunting, you'll love this soup. The flavors are wonderful and the soup is so easy to make.
This cod soup, inspired by the Good Things Café of West County Cork, Ireland, combines Provençal-style flavors with Irish regional ingredients, especially cod.
Ireland, surrounded by ocean all around, is a seafood rich country, and soups containing fish and shellfish is common along the coasts.
This Greek village bread, or horiatiko psomi (χωριάτικο ψωμί,) is a hearty bread with a crispy crust, perfect for serving with soups, stews, and salads.
This bread gets its gorgeous yellow color from the addition of fine semolina, a flour normally used to make pasta.
Scallion and sesame rolls, with their soft and tender interior and pull-apart deliciousness, are a wonderful addition to your dinner table.
These scallion and sesame rolls are a delicious result of the fusion of the flavors of Hokkaido milk bread dinner rolls, Chinese scallion pancakes, and sesame scallion bread.
