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Easy French Summer Recipe: Salade Niçoise with Tuna Salade Nicoise with Tuna is a classic French salad and the perfect summer dish: light, versatile, and full of flavor. Best of all, it doesn’t involve turning on the oven or any significant cooking time on a …
Easy Peanut Butter Mousse Pie with Chocolate Ganache Peanut butter mousse pie with chocolate ganache is a simple but delicious dessert that you can pull together in no time. With a crushed Oreo cookie crust, a light and fluffy peanut butter mousse filling, and a …
Easy One Pan Caprese Chicken Easy 30 Minute One Pan Caprese Chicken is the perfect easy dinner recipe. Is it accessible enough for a beginner? This is a great recipe for beginners. There are very few ingredients and no special techniques. Is it quick enough to make on busy …
Restaurant Quality Shrimp Scampi at Home Seafood is my favorite food. I’m not sure I have ever eaten a seafood dish I didn’t like. As a kid, I would eat some fairly terrible seafood TV dinner on Friday night and I could not wait! In …
Dreaming of Lemon Olive Oil Ricotta Cake I think about cake a lot. Not necessarily eating it. Baking it. I love to think up new styles and flavors and imagine what works well together. The other night I was in bed stress watching a DVRed …
An Accidental Dessert: Pear Tarts The other day I poached some pears. I was trying to recreate a savory tart – pears with cheese – that I saw on the internet. The tart was not a big success. It was fine but it had a …
A Delicious Winter Side Dish: Thyme Roast Sweet Potatoes Like a lot of people, I’m not a perfect eater. I would describe myself as healthy-ish. One of the big advantages of cooking pretty much all of our food myself, though, is that we are able …
Old Fashioned Baking: Oatmeal Raisin Cookies I am often torn between wanting to bake “fancy” things and wanting to bake comfort foods from my childhood. Fancy things include macarons, French pastries, croissants. Comfort foods include brownies, layer cakes, and cookies – the old-fashioned kind like …
Cozy Up to Winter with Chewy Molasses Ginger Cookies I always think it’s kind of weird the way people put up their holiday decorations the day after Halloween and then take them down the day after Christmas. This is the hard part of the year, …
Cooking Math: Chocolate & Chocolate = Super Fudgy Brownies The first thing I ever learned to bake were brownies from a box. I mixed the powder together with water, eggs, and oil, straining my super weak, skinny arms with endless stirring. Then I spread the …
