Here is a little secret – duchess potatoes are actually just mashed potatoes that are piped into pretty forms with a piping bag. But let’s not minimize their flavor. They are light and fluffy on the inside and crispy on the outside. And they look pretty classy! What are Duchess Potatoes? Duchess potatoes are mashed potatoes with a fancy twist. I learned to make these in classes at our culinary school....
Grilling your veggies with steaks or honey mustard chicken already on the grill is not only convenient, but healthy (and super yummy)! Your barbecue can easily do double duty when you grill everything together! Eggplant contains a good amount of vitamins, minerals and fiber, one whole cup of eggplant is only 20 calories! Best of all, they’re low on calories but really high on flavor when seasoned right! The flavor is mild yet earthy and eggplant can be paired with nearly any kind of seasoning, sauce, or even melted cheese!...
Chow Mein noodles are tossed with a mixture of carrots, cabbage and bean sprouts in a tasty sauce. What is Chow Mein? We love Chinese food and Chow mein is always at the top of our list. This dish involving lots of lightly stir-fried noodles with veggies in a tasty sauce. The chow means “stir fry” and mein means noodles. This dish can vary a bit by region and can be served with crispy noodles or soft noodles....
The Shepherd’s Pie has saucy ground meat and vegetables covered in a a mashed potato crust, sprinkled with shredded cheese, and baked to bubbly perfection. A Quick Shortcut Shepherds Pie Shepherd’s Pie is a comforting and hearty dish that is perfect for an easy dinner. Use frozen mixed veggies and pre-made mashed potatoes to make prep and cook time quick. The shortcut sauce options in the recipe below make it easy to customize the dish to your pantry....
Juicy shredded chicken & black beans are tossed with classic enchilada ingredients and layered or wrapped in corn tortillas. Everything is topped with cheese and homemade enchilada sauce and cooks in the slow cooker so dinner is ready when you are! Serve these easy enchiladas with cilantro tomato rice or cilantro lime rice and your favorite taco inspired toppings! Crock Pot Enchiladas take the usual enchiladas to a whole new level of convenience!...
Finally, a Fa Gao Recipe! This is a recipe that I’ve been contemplating for a long time—a few years as a matter of fact. There are many types of fa gao with regional differences. Cantonese fa gao is made with flour and yeast, and it’s similar to Ma Lai Go. After much debating with myself, I decided to make a type of fa gao that’s made with rice (short grain white rice, in this case)....
A Spontaneously Invented Recipe Oftentimes, our recipes are elaborately planned out in advance. Strategies discussed, recipes researched and written, shopping lists drawn out, and ingredients purchased before each one of our big Woks of Life blogging blowout weekends. But other times, blogging can be a spontaneous venture. This past weekend, I was taking inventory in my freezer when I found a package of turkey thighs. I remembered buying them from the grocery store, with this thought: “I love turkey....
We can’t resist the masterful light and crispy batter here, and the aromatic yet simple spices that are delicious with just about anything: shrimp, squid, and tofu. We’ve even had it with king crab legs at Cantonese restaurants. It’s satisfying and delicious, letting the seafood shine and eliminating any fishiness! If you love smelt, this recipe will give you that familiar crispy, clean taste, but with an extra punch of flavor from the Cantonese salt & pepper technique....
What is XO Sauce? Ever since we discovered XO Sauce and created our own XO Sauce recipe, we’ve been enamored with the stuff. It’s a mixture of fried garlic, shallots, dried scallops, dried shrimp, Chinese ham, and chili peppers. In short, it’s an incredible umami bomb. I think perhaps we’ve been a little too content to just have a jar of it in the fridge to enjoy it as we like, putting it on everything from eggs and wok-fuls of veggies to rice and noodles!...
Just a handful of ingredients including butter, cream, and of course lots of garlic, this sauce takes just minutes to make. What is Garlic Cream Sauce? Garlic cream sauce is an easy-to-make sauce with a rich creamy texture and a nice garlicky flavor. This sauce is creamy like alfredo sauce or cream cheese sauce, but has more garlic flavor and doesn’t have a strong parmesan cheese flavor. This sauce is great on pasta, served with seafood or over cauliflower....
Cauliflower: A Great Vegetarian Stand-In We were starting to think cauliflower recipes were beginning to go out of style. Or perhaps that people had exhausted all of the cauliflower recipes they could think of. (Cauliflower pizza dough, cauliflower dips, cauliflower soup, etc.), but, then again, that really would never happen right? After all, cauliflower is the new kale. So here we have a General Tso’s Cauliflower recipe. The story behind it is that a good friend of mine invited us over to his house for an Indo-Chinese meal, and he drummed up excitement by saying I would be “pleasantly surprised....
This chicken dish has a spicy-sweet sauce made with simple ingredients and easy prep. Serve over rice for the perfect meal. What is General Tso’s Chicken? General Tso Chicken is a tasty chicken dish with a sweet and sticky sauce that may have been created in right here in North America! We love the way it pairs with oven-baked rice and Sesame Ginger Snap Peas! Ingredients & Variations The name of the game is simple ingredients that are easy to find in any market!...
Use up all that fall bounty of garden carrots and bake them into this moist carrot bread. Quick breads are easy to make and freeze beautifully! We love this recipe for carrot bread! Extra moist, a bit sweet and full of flavor. It’s a great twist on a banana bread recipe or carrot cake! Ingredients DRY INGREDIENTS Typical of a basic quick bread, this uses all-purpose flour with baking soda to give it some rise....
Posted Jan 26, 2022, Updated Feb 20, 2024 In my opinion, homemade soft pretzels with cheese sauce is the ultimate comfort food combination. I craved it during each of my six pregnancies, so I can promise you that this is the best soft pretzel recipe you’ll ever make or eat because I had a lot of time to get it just right. In this post, you will learn how to make soft pretzels that are irresistibly buttery, salty and slightly sweet....
A mixture of cream, butter, brown sugar and chocolate chips come together in minutes to create a rich decadent fudge sauce. Dress up sundaes, brownies, cakes, and even smoothies with this uber-easy, super creamy, chocolatey fudge sauce! Our Favorite Hot Fudge Sauce Recipe Made with 5 simple ingredients, this recipe for hot fudge comes out rich and smooth with a delicious dark chocolate fudgy flavor!It’s super easy to make, heat, melt, and stir....
Tender slices of turkey are simmered in gravy and spooned over toasted bread for an easy and savory open-faced sandwich. Leftover Turkey Sandwich A hot turkey sandwich is, hands down, my favorite way to enjoy leftovers. I always serve it with oven fries. This dish is all about the leftovers! Keep it simple or dress it up with extra leftovers Totally customizable – add cranberry sauce, stuffing, or even leftover mashed potatoes....
Spiral hams are popular at Easter and Christmas dinner alongside mashed potatoes or Scalloped Potatoes and turkey, but you can buy them year-round! Spiral ham comes fully cooked, all you have to do is heat and serve! How Long to Cook a Spiral Ham Spiral cut hams are typically between 8 and 11 pounds and already come fully cooked (make sure your package says pre-cooked). This means when you’re cooking a ham, you just want to heat it through....
Beets are one of my favorite vegetables and can be enjoyed hot as a side dish or chilled in a salad. They’re easy to cook and jam-packed with flavor! A Healthy Favorite Beets are packed with essential vitamins, minerals, and compounds, and flesh can be used as an organic dye as well! You can find red beets, purple beets, even striped beets! Once cooked the can be enjoyed hot or chilled and are a great addition to tossed salads or even added into hummus for a pretty pink dip!...
Those little cabbage look-alikes in the vegetable section are so healthy and pair so well with all kinds of delicious ingredients. With just a simple pat of butter and some garlic salt (or make brussels tossed in balsamic vinegar). So Many Ways to Cook Brussels Sprouts! Steaming is great for adding to recipes or topping with cheese sauce (we steam brussels sprouts and add crispy bread crumbs). Roasting or air frying adds caramelization (the brown bits on the outside) and lots of flavor....
Now you can make restaurant-ready-looking appetizers and desserts easily at home. Fill them with almost anything; sweet or savory! What are Phyllo Cups? Phyllo dough (sometimes called filo dough or pastry) are very thin sheets of dough that are brushed with butter and layered before baking. The result is a delicious and crisp little pastry. It can be filled with almost anything from apple pie filling to jalapeno popper dip or even brie and cranberries!...
