These braised baby new potatoes are tender, melt-in-your-mouth, dead-easy to make and versatile in so many ways. I love to make these braised baby new potatoes and serve as a side dish with chicken, or as part of a nicoise salad, with a fried egg on top, or on their own as a snack.
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How To Make Matcha Conchas (Matcha Pan Dulce)
Do you like matcha? Do you like all-day baking projects? Do you like Mexican desserts & pastries? Then this is for you!
This is a how-to guide for making conchas aka pan dulces at home. This matcha concha recipe is an innovative/inspired-by-Mexican food recipe. These matcha conchas are delicious with coffee in the morning or afternoon!
…Spinach and Tomato Frittata
Making a frittata is one of the easier things you can do with eggs that is impressive. With about 6 eggs, any combination of vegetables you like, and about 20 minutes, you can have a tasty brunch recipe or breakfast-for-dinner recipe on your hands. This recipe for a spinach and tomato frittata is an endlessly customizable palate for your enjoyment!
…Brioche Donut Holes, The Perfect Two-Bite Dessert
This brioche donut hole recipe is made with my signature brioche dough recipe and is a perfect little two-bite dessert. If you love brioche donuts, you’ll love these brioche donut holes.
…A Homemade Iced Matcha Latte Recipe
Since I pinpointed coffee as a trigger for my migraines, I have switched over to matcha as my morning wake-me-up beverage. However, getting an iced matcha latte at the coffee shop can cost up to $5 every day!!! Making iced matcha lattes is delicious, incredibly easy, and saves you money. Here’s a recipe for how to make a homemade iced matcha latte.
…Rigatoni with a Classic Vodka Sauce
This is a classic, indulgent vodka pasta sauce with rigatoni recipe made with butter, onions, tomato, vodka and heavy cream. This recipe would be perfect for date night, a family get together, or any time you’re craving a classic pasta with vodka sauce.
…Blueberry Brioche Bread
This recipe for blueberry brioche is delicious, fresh, and super impressive. Using fresh blueberries, you can make this brioche in about a half-hour of active time and 6-8 hrs of resting time. This blueberry brioche loaf is not too sweet, and would be great sliced and griddled like french toast!!
…Miso Chicken and Rice Soup
This recipe for a miso chicken and rice soup uses pantry basics to create a nourishing, warming, healthy soup. With ginger, miso, rice, and chicken broth, you can have an easy soup for 6-8 people ready in less than an hour.
…How to Make a Coconut Cake out of Boxed Cake Mix
If you’ve been with me a while, you might know my love of boxed cake mix. Who needs to weigh out every dry ingredient if someone has already done it for you!!! This coconut cake recipe uses a regular white cake mix and spruces it up with a lovely cream cheese frosting + optional lemon curd. This coconut cake is easy to make and will impress everyone.
…foolproof brioche dough recipe
This is my trusted brioche dough recipe I use again and again. This recipe yields about 2 1/2 lbs of raw brioche dough, enough for 1 regular sized (8-1/2″ x 4-1/2″ x 2-1/2″ inches), two mini loaves, or about 2 dozen donuts. This basic brioche dough recipe can be taken and used for a brioche loaf, brioche donuts, brioche pull-apart bread, or any brioche variation you like.
…Chocolate Cake with Marshmallow Frosting
This is a recipe for a one-layer black and white cake, which is a chocolate cake with white frosting. While you could certainly make this type of cake with a classic buttercream, I think a Swiss meringue buttercream (which is more of a science project) is a great complement to the simplicity of the chocolate cake. Make this black and white cake for any birthday or any celebration coming up!
…Frozen Key Lime Pie
This recipe for a no-bake key lime, aka a frozen key lime pie, is so easy, foolproof and delicious. Make it with regular limes! Instead of using key limes (expensive, tiny, dry, finicky) I highly recommend you use regular limes (juicy, abundant, relatively cheap). If you live near a citrus growing population, tree-ripened limes are best! This frozen key lime pie is refreshing, no-bake, and easy to make.
…Healthy Chickpea, Tomato and Cucumber Salad
This easy, healthy chickpea salad is a great vegetarian lunch option! Inspired by fattoush, but omitting the croutons, this chickpea, tomato, and cucumber salad is endlessly scalable, perfect for meal-prep or anytime you need a quick healthy lunch or snack.
…Rosewater Snacking Cake
This rosewater cake is so easy to make, even non-bakers can make this cake without fail. And, the rose flavoring here could be anything – lemon, orange, grapefruit, berries, vanilla. Anything! I chose cardamom and rosewater because they bring a nice floral, Persian-inspired flavor to this dessert. There’s not very much oil, and you don’t need an electric mixer to make it. Make this snacking cake any time you want an easy elegant dessert.
…Date Night Dinner Menu
For all of you lovebirds out there, now would be a good time to start planning your Valentine’s Day dinner menu: February 14 is coming very soon. Here are some Valentine’s day dinner ideas, from a modern kale caesar to my foolproof method for cooking steak, to a roasted cauliflower dish, to a perfect flourless chocolate cake for dessert. Impress your boo on valentine’s day, or any date night, with this easy, foodie menu!
…Lemon, Leek, and White Bean Soup (Avgolemono)
This lemon and leek soup is inspired by avgolemono, a Greek lemon-egg soup that is light-tasting yet hearty and filling. In the wintertime, this avgolemono recipe is perfect for when you feel a little scratch in the back of your throat – the citrus is refreshing and the addition of egg to the broth makes it just creamy enough to help. I’ve literally made this soup twice in the past two weeks and it’s gotten a rave review from my whole family!
…Fancy Breakfast Sandwiches (copycat of the Fairfax from Eggslut)
These breakfast sandwiches are fancy! A copycat of the “Fairfax” sandwich from Eggslut here in LA, this breakfast sandwich has a fluffy brioche bun, soft-scrambled eggs, fresh herbs, melty cheddar cheese, and homemade caramelized onions. You can make them individually or create a party-sized platter of them anytime you want to serve an impressive dessert.
…saffron yellow cake with chocolate swiss meringue frosting
This saffron yellow cake with chocolate swiss meringue frosting is a fancy, overachiever version of a yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Make this saffron yellow cake when you want to celebrate something or impress someone!
…Olive oil + Meyer Lemon Blender Pie
This Meyer lemon pie is made with whole lemons in the blender, and with olive oil instead of butter! Enjoy it during citrus season. Yes, the whole lemon blended up!
…Cheesy Pull-Apart Dinner Rolls
The recipe for cheddar dinner rolls, made with beer, is so delicious. They’re soft, tender, cheesy, and the perfect side for any meal. Yielding 12 rolls, this dinner roll recipe is so easy and perfect for your autumn baking. If you’re looking for a recipe for homemade dinner rolls that is easy and has not a lot of rising time, this recipe for rolls made with cheddar and beer will really hit the spot.
…Coconut Flan with Coffee Caramel
This coconut flan with a coffee caramel is TO DIE FOR. I ate a quarter of it by myself immediately after taking pictures of it. Make this coconut flan with just a can of coconut milk, condensed milk, 1 egg and 1 tablespoon of gelatin, alongside a super simple coffee caramel. The caramel has espresso infused it in, which adds some bitterness to the caramel. This coconut flan recipe is easy, foolproof, and not too sweet. YUM!!
…Basque-Style Cheesecake Bars
Tarta de queso, known as gazta tarta in the Basque Region, is a cheesecake that is crustless, creamy, tender, and really amazing — it’s known as Burnt Basque Cheesecake here in the states. It’s also less sweet than the New York-style cheesecake. These Basque Cheesecake Bars have the flavor profile of the Basque dessert but are made into a more handy, on-the-go format by adding a crust made of Maria cookies (which are also Spanish!) and then cutting them into squares.
…Plum Jam (No Pectin, Low Sugar, Small Batch)
This recipe for plum jam has no pectin and very little sugar – it’s also a small batch and requires no special equipment. just one weird trick! Using only five or six plums, a bit of powdered sugar, making this plum jam is easy and fool-proof. Make this small-batch, no-pectin, low-sugar plum jam with this easy hack!
…Amaro Spritz Cocktail
Amaro spritz seems to be a controversial drink these days. The New York Times wrote a story saying that the Aperol spritz is a bad drink, which I disagree with. Using Aperol, Campari or any of your favorite Amari (Cynar? Great! Lo-Fi Gentian Amaro? delicious!), you can make an amaro spritz with just amaro, bubbles — cava, prosecco, or champagne — and soda water. Top with a slice of orange, and you have a great drink on your hands.
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