Adventures in cooking and baking.
This quick pork liver pâté recipe is an easy way to create a tasty appetizer for your next cocktail party or elegant picnic.
Instead of sourcing fresh pork liver from a specialty butcher or market and starting from scratch, get a head start by preparing this quick pork liver pâté with either liverwurst or mild braunschweiger, doctoring it up with ingredients you might add to liver to make the spread.
With a topping of burst tomatoes, basil, and a balsamic glaze, this caprese ricotta toast is wonderful as a savory breakfast or lunch.
This ricotta toast is so hearty and flavorful. Just one slice of this toast is plenty, although I have been known to easily polish off two slices.
These mango muffins with coconut streusel are a tasty way to bake with mango, a sweet and juicy tropical fruit.
With the addition of a mild coconut flavor from unsweetened coconut and coconut oil, these muffins are a little sweet, a little tropical, and totally wonderful for your breakfast or snack.
These waffles are flavored with the warm spices of gingerbread. They are crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and are wonderful for enjoying the flavors of the holidays any time of year.
Although you might think of making these gingerbread waffles around the holidays, once you try these, you will want to enjoy them all year long.
This double chocolate zucchini bread contains both cocoa powder and half of a pound of chocolate chunks.... and two medium zucchinis. It's the perfect recipe for hiding your extra zucchini.
Yes, it's zucchini season, that time of year when everyone has an overabundance. This is a great and tasty way to use some of that zucchini. If you look very closely, you can see evidence of the zucchini, but just don't tell the kids.
These banh mi sandwiches are filled with pork that is broiled and then simmered in a caramel sauce of almost burnt sugar and fish sauce. The flavor is a wonderful combination of sweet and savory.
The caramel pork is shredded or "pulled" after cooking and then used for banh mi sandwiches, along with all of the goodies that go into the sandwiches, including mayonnaise, cucumber, cilantro, pickled vegetables, and chiles.
Sourdough croissant bread - take your favorite sourdough bread dough recipe and fill it with lots of butter pieces - and you will end up with a wonderful loaf of bread that looks like a standard boule at first glance but actually has a crispy flaky crust and an amazing pull-apart crumb.
This sourdough croissant bread emerges from the oven with a shatteringly crispy and flaky crust and a soft and distinctly buttery crumb. On the day that it bakes, be sure to treat yourself to a couple of slices right after the bread has cooled.
