Spatchcock Skillet Roasted Chicken with Citrus and Leeks. So easy, so good. I make a skillet roasted chicken at least once a week. It is one of the easiest recipes to make and incredibly versatile. I have been making roasted whole chicken for as long as I can remember. I almost always make it in...
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One Bowl Ricotta Meyer Lemon Loaf Cake
One Bowl Ricotta Meyer Lemon Loaf Cake. It's Meyer lemon season so that means make all the lemon recipes, starting with a lemon loaf. The new year is off to a somewhat rocky start, to put it mildly, if you read current events. I am not going to get into any of that here, don't...
Dark Chocolate Chunk Persimmon Scones with Olive Oil
Dark Chocolate Chunk Persimmon Scones with Olive Oil. Tender scones with pieces of tender Fuyu Persimmon, spices and dark chocolate chunk pieces. Starting off the new year by eating carbs and watching the Twilight Zone marathon all day long. And not changing out of pajamas. Carbs of choice are these tasty persimmon scones. I adore...
Mixed Berry Snowflake Linzer Torte Bars
Mixed Berry Snowflake Linzer Torte Bars. One last Linzer recipe for the year. And it's a good one. The Linzer torte is perhaps the most famous Austrian dessert. Hailing from Linz, Austria of course, it' s a shortcrust pastry made with nuts, usually almonds or hazelnuts or both, spices, plenty of butter, layered with jam,...
Linzer Kipferl - Austrian Chocolate Dipped Crescent Sandwich Cookies
Linzer Kipferl - Austrian Chocolate Dipped Crescent Sandwich Cookies. A classic Austrian butter cookie. I have made a version of delicious, buttery, Austrian cookies off and on for years now. Sometimes I pipe them into sticks and dip both ends in chocolate, sometimes I make them into sandwich cookies either in sticks, crescents or rosettes....
White Chocolate Dipped Peppermint Mocha Shortbread
White Chocolate Dipped Peppermint Mocha Shortbread. I LOVE shortbread and these are my fave. This is a cookie recipe I have been making for Christmas for years and years now. Before this recipe I made them just as mocha shortbread and dipped in white chocolate. They have always been really good but I wanted to...
5 Spice Pineapple Jam Thumbprint Cookies
5 Spice Pineapple Jam Thumbprint Cookies. Buttery thumbprint cookies with a homemade 5 spice pineapple jam. Christmas, but make it tropical. I think everyone has a good thumbprint cookie recipe they make every holiday season every year. I haven't made thumbprints in a few years myself, but I have seen so many floating around online...
Meyer Lemon Sugar Cookie Bars with Hibiscus Frosting
Meyer Lemon Sugar Cookie Bars with Hibiscus Frosting. Another recipe to add to my collection with my beloved Meyer lemons. Lemon sugar cookie bars for Christmas? Yes! Especially since they are Meyer lemon and this is the time of year when my tree is bursting with ripe lemons. I use them in all kinds of...
German Pfeffernüsse Cookies ( German Spice Cookies)
German Pfeffernüsse Cookies. Also known as German spice cookies. If I had to pick one favorite Christmas cookie of all the cookies I make and love, this would be it. I adore Pfeffernüsse Which translates to "pepper nuts" in German. These have a nice kick of pepper along wither other classic gingerbread spices. These are...
Christmas Jam Sandwich Cookies
This jam sandwich cookie has been a recipe in my family forever. I am now sharing it with you all. One of my all time favorite Christmas cookies. Buttery, soft vanilla cookies sandwiched with jam before baking, then dusted with powdered sugar. Similar to Linzer cookies, but the jam is added before baking and no...
Soft Spiced Gingerbread Cut Out Cookies
Soft Spiced Gingerbread Cut Out Cookies are one of my favorite cookies to make. The way they make my house smell when baking are worth the work to make them. These cookies really aren't all that hard to make. And the flavors develop when you let the dough sit for a while before you bake...
Almond Chocolate Cinnamon Linzer Cookies
Almond Chocolate Cinnamon Linzer Cookies. I make a version of these Austrian Christmas cookies every year. I love Linzer cookies. I have either been eating them, making them or both for Christmas since I was a kid. Having Austrian grandparents and a mom who grew up in Germany meant we had all the Austria/Bavarian/German treats...
Dark Chocolate Chip Peppermint M&M Cookies
Dark Chocolate Chip Peppermint M&M Cookies. Everyone needs a great chocolate chip cookie recipe that they can customize into any flavors they like. This one is mine. And I make them every Christmas. I make a variation of chocolate chip cookies throughout the year. Always the same base recipe, but whatever I mix-in changes. I...
Tropical Snowball Cookies - Coconut Lime Macadamia Snowball Cookies
Tropical Snowball Cookies. Aka Coconut Lime Macadamia Snowball Cookies. Aka melt in your mouth cookie goodness. Snowball cookies come in many flavors and names. They are often called Mexican Wedding Cookies or Russian Tea Cakes and most commonly made with pecans with almonds coming in at a close second. They are a nutty, buttery, sweet,...
White Chocolate Pistachio Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies
White Chocolate Pistachio Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies. These cookies make an appearance in my holiday cookie boxes every year. Tasty and so easy to make. These white chocolate pistachio cranberry oatmeal cookies kick off my 10 (maybe 12 days if I can get them all done) of cookies for this year. 2020 has been a difficult...
Spicy Italian Sausage Gnocchi Ragù Recipe
Spicy Italian Sausage Gnocchi Ragù. This is a recipe I make often, consisting of mostly pantry items, that my whole family loves and I am sure yours will as well. I love to make dishes that are simple in preparation but taste as if I had spent hours in the kitchen making something über...
Copycat Ritz Carlton Creamy Butternut Squash Soup
Copycat Ritz Carlton Creamy Butternut Squash Soup Silky smooth, rich with just a hint of spice. My favorite creamy butternut squash soup recipe. So easy to make. I had this creamy butternut squash soup at the lunch reception of one of my best friend's weddings years ago. An amazing traditional ceremony in the morning which...
Boozy Pumpkin Eggnog Pie
Boozy Pumpkin Eggnog Pie A really delicious twist on a classic holiday dessert. Pumpkin pie is most commonly made for Thanksgiving, but I say why not have it at any time during the fall and winter. Life is short, eat more pie. Especially if it's boozy pumpkin eggnog pie. This is the pumpkin pie recipe...
Spiced Apple Tiki Smash - A Fall Rum Cocktail
Spiced Apple Tiki Smash - A Fall Rum Cocktail A cocktail for when you are craving fall flavors but still love all things tiki and summer. And when it is still shorts weather when it is almost November. I usually love the heat here, but we usually get to escape in the middle of summer...
Air Fryer Chicken Schnitzel Sandwiches on Pretzel Buns with Lemon Herb Mayo
Air Fryer Chicken Schnitzel Sandwiches on Pretzel Buns with Lemon Herb Mayo. A mouthful in name as well as sandwich. And a delicious one at that. These chicken schnitzel sandwiches are soon to be your new favorite sandwich. They are my new fave. This might be the best sandwich I have ever made. Crunchy and...
Late Summer Frozen Rum Runner Cocktails
The perfect way to celebrate these last few fleeting weeks of summertime before it is officially fall is with one of my fave tiki drinks, frozen rum runner cocktails. Two kinds of rum, blackberry, banana, pineapple and citrus as well as a few other ingredients make these rum runners absolutely delicious and refreshing. Myt personal...
Roasted Hatch Chile Salsa with Avocado
Roasted Hatch Chile Salsa with Avocado Recipe Take advantage of Hatch Chile season with my recipe for Roasted Hatch Chile Salsa with Avocado! Thanks to Frieda's Specialty Produce for sending me some of their gorgeous, fresh Hatch Chiles to make this recipe! What are hatch chiles? Most of us know, right? If not, here ya...
Summertime Cherry and White Peach Rosé Sangria with Rum
Cherry and White Peach Rosé Sangria with Rum. The ultimate, refreshing, summertime cocktail. I love sangria. It is such an easy cocktail to make as well as so versatile depending on what fruit or liquor you add to it, use either white or red wine, or as in this case, rosé wine. It's a choose...
Blackened Cajun Sockeye Salmon with Smoky Cheddar Grits
Blackened Cajun Sockeye Salmon with Smoky Cheddar Grits. Thank you to Prince William Sound Salmon for sending me this gorgeous wild Sockeye salmon. This blackened Cajun sockeye salmon meal is so easy, flavorful and comes together in just minutes thanks to both quick cooking salmon and grits. I was supposed to be in Alaska for...
Mini Shrimp Ceviche Tostadas
Mini Shrimp Ceviche Tostadas. Oh so slightly adapted from Esteban Castillo aka "Chicano Eats" new cookbook. I had a dream the other night I was eating shrimp ceviche. That day my copy of Chicano Eats - Recipes from my Mexican-American kitchen arrived and I HAD to make is ceviche recipe first. It was meant to...
Summertime Brown Sugar White Peach Buttermilk Cake
Summertime Brown Sugar White Peach Buttermilk Cake. A moist, delicious cake that takes advantage of my favorite summer stone fruit, the white donut peach. A few years ago my husband bought a me a white donut peach tree. Also called Saturn peaches, they are little, squat peaches, that are so sweet and I can easily...
Tropical Pineapple Puff Pastry Tarts with Pineapple Rum Sauce
Tropical Pineapple Puff Pastry Tarts with Pineapple Rum Sauce. Super easy. Super tasty. I can't let National Pineapple Day pass by without a new recipe! This one is so good and simple. Great for brunch or dessert. A scoop of ice cream would take this to the next level for a fantastic dessert.
Jerk Chicken Drumsticks with Pineapple Mango Slaw
Jerk Chicken Drumsticks with Pineapple Mango Slaw. A perfect summertime meal. Chicken drumsticks are a fave to grill all summer long. We love to make them a variety of ways with different seasonings, spiced, sauces etc. Jamaican jerk seasoning is a fave and it goes so well with the tropical flavors in the slaw. I...
Sockeye Salmon with Creamed Leeks and Old Bay Roast Potatoes
Sockeye Salmon with Creamed Leeks and Old Bay Potatoes. Simple ingredients with flavors similar to chowder. Leeks are one of my favorite vegetables to cook with and eat. They are so versatile. Creamed leeks is a classic French dish and is commonly served with steamed or baked fish. I happened to come across some really...
Big Stick Cocktail - Layered Frozen Pineapple Cherry Cocktail
Big Stick Cocktail. Also called a Layered Frozen Pineapple Cherry Cocktail. An ode to the best popsicle of my childhood, the Big Stick. I spent my childhood growing up in Santa Barbara, California alternating between the beach and various pools around town. Whether it was a pool at a friends house, the fancy Montecito country...
Spicy Furikake Salmon with Quinoa and Quick Pickled Cucumbers
Spicy Furikake Salmon with Quinoa and Quick Pickled Cucumbers. Another super fast and healthy dinner recipe for you all. You know how much we adore salmon in my house, especially my kids. It is their favorite thing to eat which is amazing given that many kids, and well let's face it, adults don't care for...
Lemon Ricotta Waffles with Mixed Berry Syrup
Lemon Ricotta Waffles with Mixed Berry Syrup. I am on a roll with waffle recipes and I don't see myself stopping anytime soon. These are tender, fluffy waffles with a hint of lemon topped with a warm mixed berry syrup and lightly sweetened whipped cream. These lemon ricotta waffles are perfect for those lazy weekend...
Grilled Veggie and Shrimp Couscous Primavera
Grilled Veggie and Shrimp Couscous primavera is a super quick, healthy meal easy to whip up on a busy weeknight. These days a lot of people are relying on staple ingredients since we are all doing a lot more cooking at home. Getting creative with basic ingredients is key to making home cooking exciting and...
Honey Thyme Meyer Lemon Lemonade
Honey Thyme Meyer Lemon Lemonade. Lemonade made with fresh meyer lemon juice and a honey thyme simple syrup. So very refreshing. "If life gives you lemons, make lemonade" I think that saying is rather odd since I think lemons are wonderful. They add amazing brightness and acid to any dish, sweet or savory. And "lemon"...
Ube Mochi Waffles ( Purple Sweet Potato Mochi Waffles)
Ube Mochi waffles aka purple sweet potato waffles. Frieda's Produce was so kind to send me a box of these amazing purple tubers and I knew exactly what to do with them. Waffles! I have been on a waffle kick lately since my family is home full time now, so that means more leisurely mornings,...
Coconut Mochi Waffles with Strawberries and Pineapple
Coconut Mochi Waffles with Strawberries and Pineapple. Because when we can't go to Hawaii for a while, we bring Hawaii to our homes. Brunch Hawaiian style. I have been meaning to blog these waffles for a long time now. Last year I was offered a cookbook proposal, and while at the time it sounded fun,...
Smoky Chicken Noodle Soup
Smoky chicken noodle soup. My fave way to make this classic soup with smoked chicken and smoky broth. Whenever I make smoked chickens, or whole roast chickens, I almost always make two at a time. I save all the bones for homemade broth or stock, save half the meat in the freezer for later and...
Creamy Lemon Vodka Sockeye Salmon Pasta with Arugula
Creamy lemon vodka sockeye salmon pasta with arugula. So simple. So good. Thanks to Copper River Salmon for sending me a few pounds of their amazing sockeye salmon to make recipes to share with you all. Salmon is a staple in my house. As you can see from the many salmon recipes already on my...
Peanut Butter Oatmeal White Chocolate Chip Cookies
Peanut Butter Oatmeal White Chocolate Chip Cookies. Also what I call "lets see what is in the pantry and make cookies with what I find" cookie recipe. I love these peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookies so much. I have made them so many times that I have the recipe memorized so when the mood...
Instant Pot Smoky Chicken Stock Recipe
Instant Pot Smoky Chicken Stock Recipe Making homemade chicken stock is one of the easiest things to make and I make mine in my instant pot aka pressure cooker. Along with having a whole roast chicken in your recipe repertoire, next should be homemade stock. I typically make chicken stock since those are the...