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Posted Oct 09, 2023 We love making French toast for breakfast on slow Saturdays, and this pumpkin french toast is an extra-special treat perfect for chilly fall mornings. This pumpkin french toast recipe is easy to make with simple ingredients. Your favorite bread (like cinnamon swirl bread, or homemade french bread) is dipped in a spiced pumpkin and egg mixture and then cooked to perfection. It’s crispy on the outside, soft on the inside and loaded with all the best flavors the season has to offer....

It’s a bold and savory Italian sauce made with tomatoes, anchovies, capers, garlic, and olives, perfect for enhancing pasta dishes. Ingredients for Puttanesca Sauce Tomatoes: Choose quality tomatoes like San Marzanos for the best flavor. Squeeze the whole tomatoes in Step 2 to get a rustic texture of smaller and larger pieces. Capers: Rinse capers before using them to remove unnecessary salt. Anchovies: Anchovies add the signature briny flavor to a classic puttanesca recipe....

A Holiday Dinner of Charles Dickens Fame We realize we’re a little bit down to the wire here…4 days before Christmas and all, but I actually just made this recipe in our kitchen approximately 3 hours ago (we had this baby for a pre-Christmas test lunch, and are now all languishing in a major living room sofa food coma), and I had to post it immediately. We’re SO excited about this one, guys....

With just a few simple ingredients, it’s easy to make vegetarian tacos that taste great! Serve with a side of homemade Homemade Salsa or a bright and tangy Cilantro Jicama Slaw. Perfect for a quick dinner with friends or an energizing workday lunch! A Healthy Twist We love this fresh twist to a classic recipe, who doesn’t love tacos? This filling is low-carb, vegetarian and jam-packed with flavor, it fits the bill for everyone!...

Posted Nov 11, 2018, Updated May 18, 2024 Since I like to put most of my energy into the main dish and (of course) dessert, I stick with healthy & easy sides with a handful of ingredients, like these roasted parmesan green beans. This Parmesan green beans recipe is made with fresh green beans, but can also be made with frozen with just one extra step (thawing). It is gluten-free and low-calorie so you have more room for dessert!...

This version of oven-roasted vegetables is perfect served warm or room temperature meaning they can be made ahead for your feast while the rest of the meal is being prepped! I am so excited to partner with Sabra and their delicious selection of Hummus. With Sabra, we are able to create a delicious hummus vinaigrette that’s perfect with any vegetables that need roasting! How to Roast Vegetables What veggies can be roasted?...

Not only is this kale soup ultra-tasty, but we made it a one-pot meal that saves on time and clean-up! Bring it to school or work in a thermos and enjoy a filling, flavorful meal that will keep everyone going for the rest of the day! For dinner, serve kale soup with our cheesy garlic breadsticks, and a cucumber tomato salad for a well-rounded meal that the whole family will love!...

Posted Apr 03, 2023, Updated Feb 13, 2024 One summer I visited my sister and she made a vegetable galette for dinner. After taking one bite I knew I had to run home and make the perfect savory galette for my own family. I mean, what’s not to love? Your favorite veggies cooked with fragrant herbs, tossed with two types of cheese then baked in a buttery crust? :::: chef’s kiss :::: Use your favorite in-season veggies to make this recipe your own!...

Thin pork cutlets are tenderized, breaded and fried to a crispy golden brown. They’re quick and easy to make and jam-packed with flavor! Schnitzel From Scratch is Easy! So, what is Schnitzel? It is a breaded and fried cutlet, typically made with pork or veal (with veal, it is called Wiener Schnitzel). The name “schnitzel” is derived from the German word for “cut,” and is popular in Germany and eastern Europe....

In the U.S., we’re in the midst of a huge explosion in the popularity of Sichuan food. Sichuan and Hunan-style restaurants are appearing in all of the major cities, and we like it! No matter where we travel in the U.S.–New Jersey, New York, Chicago, Houston, or Seattle–we always seem to find Sichuan cuisine, and these red chili oil wontons are one of the best Sichuan-style appetizers you can find....

Fresh or frozen meatballs that are simmered in a shortcut brown gravy with onions. Made in a slow cooker or Crockpot, these meatballs are easy to prepare in advance. Serve over mashed potatoes, egg noodles, or rice for an easy meal. Slow Cooker Meatballs (& Gravy!) We love crock pot recipes to make weeknights extra easy! Let the Crockpot do all the work for these quick and easy meatballs and gravy!...

Posted Oct 06, 2024 Brownies are my favorite dessert, but sometimes I only want to make a few – so I created this small batch brownie recipe that makes eight of the most delicious brownies you’ve ever had! Small batch brownies are everything a brownie should be (and more) – they are fudgy (no cakey brownies here), chocolatey and easy to make in 25 minutes! They’re perfect for when the brownie craving strikes and you don’t want to be eating brownies for days!...

For me, the key flavor component to this spicy chicken stir-fry dish is Chinese Sacha BBQ sauce, which is also often used for hot pot as a dipping sauce. The Sacha sauce has a unique flavor and, in my opinion, makes the Firebird Chicken and our copycat version really tasty and unique. While I have been to Kansas City, I have never visited Blue Koi to eat, but I can tell you that flavors of this recipe lived up to the delicious images we saw on TV (and were probably good enough for Guy Fieri to shamelessly stuff his face with)....

Ice cream floats; as the name implies this drink has soda which usually comes from soft drinks and ice cream. It is a very old recipe for my favourite party drink when I was in my teens. Why it is so refreshing? In summer, ice cream floats are very cooling and refreshing. Because soda and milk both are alkaline, they both cool down acidity and high sugar also replenish some of the sugar loss due to dehydration....

If you’re looking for new ways to prepare salmon, look no further than this recipe, inspired by my childhood in Shanghai. A Shanghainese Way to Prepare Steamed Fish This method of steaming fish is a Shanghainese technique. With the large Cantonese population in the U.S, the Cantonese steamed fish technique is more well-known in the states. Growing up in Shanghai, however, this is how my aunts and grandma used to prepare any steamed fish—not necessarily salmon, but whatever fish they could get that was suitable for steaming....

We love making homemade peach crisp, but this easy strawberry crisp recipe is such a refreshing treat! Topping for Fruit Crisp It’s hard to know what to like best about this dessert, the luscious fruit layer or the crunchy topping. Call it taste synergy, because when it comes to strawberry crisp, the whole is definitely greater than the sum of its parts! The secret to making the perfect crisp is using the correct proportions (and real butter)....

Why I Love Tofu The thing about tofu that those-not-in-the-bean-curd-“know” don’t know is: it takes on the flavor of whatever you cook it with. Translation? It’s a great VEHICLE for flavor. It’s also a textural thing. A lot of people don’t know about how many different types of tofu there are out there, but it comes in tons of different varieties. For a full overview, check out our Chinese Tofu and Bean Curd ingredients pages, where we list some of the main types of tofu that you can find in your local Asian market....

Unlike a classic chili recipe made with ground beef, this recipe doesn’t include beans. Serve it with a big ol’ chunk of cornbread or garlic bread for dipping! What is Texas Chili? To make Texas chili, you really only need to remember one thing. No Beans! Also, keep in mind this regional recipe generally uses only stew beef and not ground beef. Purists will argue that true Texas-style chili is designed to let the flavors of beef and peppers to prevail, and therefore they only use stew beef, chilies, and tomatoes....

BUT I did have some limes, cilantro, and avocados (I was also jonesin’ for some guacamole, but that never panned out because of the said craving for thai food. Gotta go get more avocados. And figure out how to control my rabid cravings). Thus began my quest for a makeshift Thai(ish) dinner. This Thai salad is what I got. It has great flavors in the dressing like lime, peanut, ginger, garlic, green onion, and cilantro....

There are a few secret ingredients here that make this salsa taste like you spent a lot more time and effort on it than you actually did. It’s a recipe from a family friend, and after years of requesting his salsa at dinner parties, we’re finally documenting it here on the blog. Another David Special My dad’s childhood friend David, of Catskills fame, is the kind of home cook that strives to perfect a single recipe....