Adventures in cooking and baking.
This giant Nutella Pop Tart is a fun take on the classic breakast pastry. It's definitely too big for a toaster but it is just right for dessert.
This big Nutella Pop Tart starts with a pie dough and then is filled with a generous amount of Nutella. Once it's done baking in the oven, it's topped with a chocolate glaze with sprinkles, making it super tasty and fun. Who doesn't love fun desserts?
These slice and bake iced lime cookies begin with a shortbread-style dough, but they are flavored with fresh lime zest, lime juice, and even lime oil, to bring out the sweet citrusy flavor.
These lime cookies are rolled in sparkling sugar, baked, and then dunked in a lime flavored glaze. Finally, they are finished with more lime zest.
This Parmesan and Thyme Honeynut squash is cooked until it's tender and then it is tossed with Parmesan cheese and roasted until it's crispy.
Once you have prepped the honeynut squash, this side dish takes just 25 minutes to cook, and the resulting side dish will make you very happy with it's sweet and savory flavor. Yep, this squash dish is both sweet/savory and tender/crisp.
This tomatillo salad is bright flavored and refreshing. It's made with a combination of fresh tomatillos and butterhead lettuce and dressed with a creamy tomatillo ranch-style dressing.
Fresh tomatillos are not actually tomatoes despite their appearance and their name. They come in a loose husk, and the skin is slightly sticky. They are actually related to gooseberries (aka golden berries). Typically they are cooked and used to make stews such as pozole verde, enchilada sauce, and chile verde, as well as salsa verde.
This fried rice with crab and peas takes only 20 minutes to make, especially if you have some leftover steamed or Chinese takeout white rice.
It makes a great lunch or dinner with a salad. The ingredients are easy to find and the dish is a lot of fun to make.
These banana apple muffins, with a layer of cinnamon and brown sugar through the middle and a crunchy buttery topping with sugar, flour, cinnamon, and vanilla, are like little single serving coffee cakes!
These banana apple coffee cake muffins are exceptionally moist. After all, they include yogurt, oil, and butter. In addition, there are two bananas and one apple all pureed together and added to the batter. The contrast between the super moist crumb and the crispy topping is just like you'd expect from a slice of coffee cake.
This pear fritter loaf cake combines all of the goodness of a fritter in an easy to make quick bread.
This pear loaf cake is loaded with fresh pear chunks along with vanilla bean paste, a brown sugar cinnamon swirl, and finished with a vanilla glaze. The cake is super moist too.
