Strawberries in Grand Marnier are one of the simplest desserts – but the simplest things are often the most wonderful of all. It’s as easy as choosing beautiful, local berries, and quickly marinating them.
recipes
Pineapple Upside-Down Cornmeal Masa Cake
This recipe for fresh Pineapple Upside-Down Cornmeal Masa Cake with jalapenos and roasted red peppers in a cast-iron skillet will knock your socks off.
Burnt Orange Silk Meringue Buttercream
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.
Masa Cornbread
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.
This Hearty Spinach Soup Is Packed with Meat and Veggies
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
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
Salted Chocolate Chunk Shortbread Cookies
Wildly Outstanding Salted Chocolate Chunk Shortbread Cookies. What more can you say than that?
Phenomenal Polish Smoked Sausage Soup
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.
Blue Cheese, Leek, and Mushroom Pasta Bake
I’m not sure I’m doing you any favors by introducing you to this Blue Cheese, Leek, and Mushroom Pasta Bake. You may not be able to stop eating it.