Adventures in cooking and baking.
This honeynut squash soup with apple and bacon is velvety and smoky with sweet notes from the honeynut squash and the apple.
This soup takes less than 45 minutes to make and is wonderful for lunch with a salad or for dinner as a first course or the vegetable course. It is also easy to make in advance and reheat for later, although it won't last long once you taste it. We polished this soup off in no time.
These cornetti dolci are slightly sweet, light, and amazingly airy. They are wonderful filled with jam or dusted with powdered sugar, or both!
These cornetti are made with a laminated dough, similar to croissants. From what I understand, both cornetti and croissants have similar roots. Cornetti, besides being Italian and not French, typically tend to be slightly sweeter, have eggs in the dough, are a little fatter in the middle, and often are baked with fillings such as apricot jam, almond paste, or pastry cream.
This stir-fried cilantro with bean sprouts and shrimp takes just minutes to make, and the results are fresh and flavorful.
This stir-fry is amazing. It is a vegetable dish with about 8 ounces of small shrimp. The only seasonings you will need are fresh ginger and garlic, plus a little salt and sugar.
This Asian Pear Slaw is a refreshing and light make-ahead salad that stays crunchy and sweet in the fridge until you are ready to serve it.
This Asian pear salad is wonderful as a side dish to meats, fried chicken, and barbecue fare. It's so refreshing.
These pancakes with maple honey syrup are a copycat of the ones people line up for at the Golden Diner in New York City's Chinatown. They are big and fluffy and topped with a fruit compote, maple honey butter, and smothered in a maple honey syrup.
These pancakes are made with a yeasted batter and are cooked in individual skillets. They are so thick that they are finished in the oven so that they are cooked all the way through. The pancakes are tall like Japanese pancakes, but a little more sturdy.
This green chile chicken enchilada bake is an easy and delicious way to capture the flavors and textures of enchiladas without having to roll the tortillas. It's more like a chicken enchilada casserole.
This green chile chicken enchilada bake includes stacked corn tortillas layered with chichen, cheese, and sauce, similar to a lasagna.
This fresh strawberry cake is perfect for whenever you have a craving for something simple and sweet. It's great for a midmorning or afternoon snack.
I will admit that both my husband and I enjoyed it for breakfast a couple of days in a row and I don't feel guilty. After all, it's filled with fresh strawberries.
