Adventures in cooking and baking.
These cardamom cinnamon muffins, with warming spices and a sweet topping, are a tasty way to start your day.
These muffins take just a few minutes to assemble before baking too, so you can have fresh muffins on your table in less than an hour. Your kitchen will be filled with the aroma of freshly baked treats.
This tomato and Boursin bruschetta is a super easy to pull together when you need a tasty appetizer in a flash.
This appetizer is wonderful for this time of year, especially with New Year's Eve coming and with football season going strong. Plus, sometimes you just need a quick snack for when friends drop by or for bringing to a get together.
These extra big bakery-style sprinkle cookies have a wonderfully distinct vanilla flavor with just a touch of almond... and they're filled with jimmies for a bit of fun color and additional sweetness.
These cookies are wonderful for a holiday cookie exchange or for gift giving. They can be adapted for any holiday or special occasion. Just change the color of the sprinkles.
This Zacatecas-style beef stew is a quick and hearty dish you can have on the table in less than an hour.
This stew is based on picadillo Zacatecano, a mixture of ground beef and potatoes in a tomato sauce. Most regions of Latin America have their own picadillo, from simple to complicated. This one, from the central/north state of Zacatecas, Mexico, is fairly simple but still flavorful.
Soboro Ppang (소보로빵) is a Korean roll that is topped with a tasty peanut butter streusel. It can be baked with just the streusel or it can be stuffed with a filling such as red bean paste, pastry cream, jam, or even more peanut streusel.
This soboro ppang is the recipe the Bread Baking Babes are baking this month, as introduced by the blog My Diverse Kitchen. This is my first go at making this bread and, although my streusel turned out a little too sparse after the rolls rose in the oven, I was still super happy with the results.
Homemade Chinese Five Spice Powder - one of my favorite spice blends. Sichuan peppercorns, star anise, cloves, fennel, and cinnamon combine to create a wonderful and uniquely flavored seasoning.
Why should you make your own Chinese Five Spice? First, one of the cool things about making your own spice blends is that you can control the ingredients in the blend, and customize the spices to your taste.
These babka knots are filled with the sweet flavor of eggnog, perfect for the Christmas season. Serve them for breakfast, brunch, or even dessert for a tasty holiday celebration.
These mini eggnog babka twists are made from a dough that you would use for a small-sized loaf. You divide the dough into smaller pieces and cut and twist it into cute little individually-sized knots.
