Part 1: What is a Burnt Orange Silk Meringue Buttercream? A caramel crème Anglaise and an Italian merengue, beat together with butter and orange. Surprisingly few ingredients, considering what you turn them into: a creamy and impressive frosting and cake filling with a muted but unmistakable orange flavor.
This Masa Cornbread is made with corn flour as well as cornmeal (and it’s got kernels of corn, to boot). It’s a very moist, almost custardy cornbread.
Gluten-Free Taco Night with steak tacos, homemade corn tortillas and homemade refried beans, plus blackberry margarita punch (tequila, cassis, ginger beer)
Use leftover lemon juice to make a homemade lemonade concentrate, and then use that to mix with gin, vodka, cherries, or God knows what. You can make easy, simple, and quick cocktails or soft drinks. Dark, rainy, and cold outside? Freeze it until the sun comes out.
Topolabampo Review: a seven-course tasting menu with wine pairings from our favorite Mexican restaurant in Chicago? No, our favorite restaurant, period.
This homemade and hearty Spinach Soup is packed with (leftover) vegetables (such as Brussels sprouts, carrots, cauliflower, and potatoes). It’s comfort food for the veg-friendly.
Chocolate-Covered Banana Cheesecake Layer Cake: three layers of fudgy, bittersweet chocolate ganache, two layers of moist, delicious banana cake, one layer of a luscious, New-York-style (cream cheese and sour cream) banana cheesecake
Wildly Outstanding Salted Chocolate Chunk Shortbread Cookies. What more can you say than that?
Phenomenal Polish Smoked Sausage Soup, properly called “White Borscht,” is a kielbasa soup, heavy with root vegetables (including potatoes, but not beets), mushrooms, and topped off with a dollop of sour cream (and perhaps a hard-boiled (Easter) egg). Great recipe. Reheats well.
