Adventures in cooking and baking.
If you love hash brown potatoes, this is one of the easiest ways to make them at home. They turn out crispy on the outside and creamy on the inside, exactly the way you want them.
This hash brown potato waffle recipe also gives you a great reason to own a waffle iron. It's no longer a single use kitchen electric!
These Pan-Seared Scallops with Black Beans and Red Pepper Sauce can be served either as an appetizer, first course, or main course.
This tasty and colorful seafood dish takes just about 35 minutes to make and it's wonderful for a light dinner with friends.
These small-batch chocolate chip and pecan banana muffins are loaded with chocolate chips and pecans, plus, they are a great way to use up that last banana!
These are pretty much portable mini banana breads in muffin form, but the chocolate chip and pecan to bread ratio is much higher, perfect for chocolate and pecan lovers.
This Mexican Street Corn Salad takes the flavors from the grilled corn (elotes) that is sold by street vendors in Mexico (and here in parts of Los Angeles) and incorporates them into a delicious salad.
Mexican street corn is grilled corn that is slathered in a mixture of mayonnaise, cotija cheese, chili, and lime and then sold on the cob. There's also a version of street corn, called esquites, where the food vendor strips the corn from the cob, tosses the ingredients, and serves it in a plastic cup.
Make this blackberry-lime breakfast cake and watch it disappear. It is loaded with two heaping baskets of blackberries, and the batter is flavored with the zest of two limes.
This breakfast cake comes together in just a few minutes, and takes about 45 minutes to bake. It's kind of like making a giant muffin!
This eggplant gratin is an easy-to-make cheesy side dish that everyone will love.
Serve this eggplant gratin as a side dish or even as a light main course. I love it with warm sourdough bread slices on the side for dipping in the sauce.
Coco bread is a soft and slightly sweet Caribbean bread made with flour, yeast, coconut milk, and a little bit of sugar.
Coconut milk is a surprisingly wonderful addition to this bread. It adds a tiny hint of coconut flavor that is almost indiscernible. It's more fragrance than flavor and the coconut flavor is super mild. In fact, if you aren't told about the coconut milk, you might not even be able to tell.
