Honey Garlic Sweet Potatoes

These Honey Garlic Sweet Potatoes are slightly sweet, garlicky, and crispy. 

These honey garlic sweet potatoes are swoon-worthy. The combination of the garlic and honey, plus a bit of cayenne, will have everyone going back for second helpings. 

Stuffing Muffins

These stuffing muffins are cute little individual servings of Thanksgiving-style bread stuffing. They are moist on the inside and extra crispy on the outside. If you favor the crispy edges of baked holiday stuffing, you will love these. 

One of my favorite courses for Thanksgiving dinner is the stuffing. I've baked it, made it in the slow cooker, incorporated it into dinner rolls, and used leftovers for pancakes. 

Mocha Oatmeal Muffins

These mocha oatmeal muffins are filled with walnuts and oats. That's a great excuse for having chocolate for breakfast, right?

 

These muffins are a wonderful grab-and-go breakfast for busy mornings. Along with a piece of fresh fruit, they are substantial enough to keep you going until lunchtime. 

Shrimp Risotto

This shrimp risotto is creamy, cheesy, and pretty easy to make too! 

Your guests will feel like you are serving them a "gourmet" dish that took lots of time and labor spent constantly stirring a pot by the stove, when, in reality, this risotto is pretty hands off. 

Chocolate Peppermint Brownies

These chocolate peppermint brownies are wonderful fudgy bites that will remind you of one of your favorite Girl Scout cookies, Thin Mints... only much fudgier. 

These brownies are super fudgy and are glazed with a deep chocolate ganache that is decorated with a white chocolate drizzle. 

No Churn Vietnamese Coffee Ice Cream

This no churn Vietnamese Coffee Ice Cream recipe is a wonderful way to capture iced Vietnamese coffee in an ice cream form! 

Vietnamese coffee is brewed to be super strong, very dark, syrupy, and slightly bitter. It's then combined with sweetened condensed milk and served hot or over ice. 

Sourdough Discard Crackers

This sourdough discard cracker recipe is an easy and tasty way to use any sourdough discard you have. Just try to restrain yourself from grabbing and snacking on one or two each time you walk by. They're pretty irresistible. 

These homemade sourdough crackers are made with your sourdough discard. There's no rolling pin required. 

Dulce de Leche Pumpkin Cheesecake

This dulce de leche pumpkin cheesecake is the perfect dessert to add to your Thanksgiving table. 

This dulce de leche pumpkin cheesecake is a fabulous make-ahead dessert. In fact, it's better when it's prepared about 12 hours in advance and allowed to chill. Plus, you can make the dulce de leche topping in advance, refrigerate it, and bring it back to room temperature before pouring it over the cheesecake right before serving. 

Severed Hand Pies

These severed hand pies are a fun and easy to make Halloween dessert. Fill them with a red-colored fruit (cherry, raspberry, strawberry, or cactus pear) pie filling for a creepy and delicious treat. 

 

All you need to make these little severed hand pies is ready-made pie dough, cherry pie filling, and an egg wash. You can garnish the hand pies with some of the juices in your pie filling or with some raspberry or strawberry dessert topping. 

Mini Pizza Skulls

These mini pizza skulls are tasty little treats to serve at your next Halloween party. 

These pizza bites are so easy to make. You can use your favorite pre-made pizza dough, such as Pillsbury, or you can use your own favorite pizza dough recipe and then stuff them with everything you love on a pizza. 

White and Spelt Bread with Poolish using the Cold Start Method (and an Attempt at Yeast Water)

This white wheat and spelt bread has a crispy chewy crust and a moist and airy crumb. 

This white and spelt bread begins with an attempt to make yeast water as a leavener. Years ago, I tried making yeast water, but failed. This time, our Bread Baking Babes (an every-other-month group of bread baking enthusiasts) host Judy of Judy's Gross Eats challenged us to make a loaf of bread, any bread, using a yeast water starter. 

Spiced Skull Cakelets

These spiced skull cakelets are cute little tasty bites flavored with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, clove, and cayenne. They are a sweet dessert with a bit of a kick!

These little cake bites are such a fun and tasty treat to make for Halloween. The cakes are moist and spicy, and so reminiscent of the fall season. 

Peter Reinhart's Struan Bread

This bread is made with a delicious mix of different grains, including wheat, corn meal, oats, bran, and brown rice. 

This multigrain bread, called "struan," was created by my favorite bread baking author and teacher, Peter Reinhart. 

Stir-Fried Udon Noodles with Chicken and Vegetables (Yaki Udon)

These stir-fried udon noodles with chicken and vegetables is so easy to prepare and is ready in less than 20 minutes. 

 

Yaki udon is a Japanese stir-fry that includes udon noodles, a protein, veggies, and a simple sauce made with soy sauce (either light or dark depending on the region), plus mirin or sake. 

Pull-Apart Brioche Bread

This pull-apart brioch bread is soft, light, flaky, buttery, and rich, all at the same time. 

 

Brioche bread is made with an enriched dough that is high in butter and and eggs. It can be sweet or savory, or somewhere in between. It's a tricky bread to make, and can either turn out light and delicate, or heavy and dense. 

Twice-Baked Potato Pierogies

These twice-baked potato pirogies are wonderful little filled dumplings - potatoes, cheese, bacon - pure comfort food.  

These pierogies are a take on the Polish pierogi, which is typically filled with potatoes, cheese, cabbage, meat, or sweet fillings. As someone who loves anything potato and cheese, I had to try these, with a twist!