Published on November 14, 2022 Butternut Squash Baked Ziti- baked pasta with a creamy butternut squash sauce, lots of cheese, and a crunchy panko topping. Serve with garlic bread and a simple salad for the perfect fall meal. Classic Baked Ziti is one of our families favorite meals, but during the fall months, we like to make this butternut squash version. It is the perfect dish for easy weeknight dinners, dinner parties, or serving as a side dish at Thanksgiving....

Updated October 13, 2019 Butternut squash always makes me think of the song, ‘Build Me Up Buttercup.’ I always start singing the classic song, but change the lyrics to “build me up butterNUT.” I recently made Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta and this time we turned on the song and had a dance party in our kitchen. Don’t worry, I waited until I was done cutting the butternut squash to bust out my best dance moves....

Published on May 07, 2023 Caesar Dressing Recipe- you only need a few ingredients to make this rich and creamy Caesar Dressing. It’s the perfect dressing for making restaurant quality Caesar salads at home! If you’ve never had Caesar dressing, you need to try it. It looks similar to ranch, but the flavor profiles are very different. They are both creamy, but ranch is light, fresh, and herby. Caesar has a strong, zesty flavor....

Updated March 26, 2019 Last week, I shared my favorite Carrot Cake recipe. I love that cake, you can’t go wrong with a classic carrot cake, but we all know my heart belongs to cookies! So I decided to create a carrot cake cookie! Yay! I made Carrot Cake Oatmeal Cookies with Cheese Glaze and they are wonderful! Do I dare say they are better than the cake? I love them both, so I will let you decide....

I know some of you are looking at the word ‘celtuce’ and wondering if I’ve made a typo. Rest assured, celtuce is a real vegetable. It’s also called stem lettuce, asparagus lettuce, or Chinese lettuce. Call it what you want, this interesting vegetable was always a part of our meals when it was in season. My mom would make this homestyle celtuce stir fry for me and it always brings me happy memories when I cook it now....

Updated August 25, 2019 Charred Corn & Poblano Nachos Sheet Pan Nachos are just maybe the way to my heart. They’re super versatile: you can serve them as an appetizer, as a side, or enjoy for lunch or dinner. And who doesn’t get a huge smile on their face when they see a sheet pan full of nachos? They’re such a universal favorite! There are a few reasons to incorporate sheet pan nachos into your life if you haven’t already… I love the smoky, authentic flavor that charring the corn and poblano peppers adds to this dish!...

Ingredients Full recipe + amounts can be found in the recipe card below. Zucchini. Flour. Baking powder. Salt. Pepper. Chilli flakes / Red pepper flakes. Egg. Oil. Milk. Cheese. I used mature/sharp cheddar but you can use any cheese of your choice. Plain yogurt. Fresh lemon juice. Fresh garlic. How to make zucchini fritters What to serve with zucchini fritters Yogurt dipping sauce or Tzatziki. Easy Tartar sauce Cook the fritters in a large pan (like you would pancakes) and serve with eggs and bacon for brunch....

If you regularly order egg foo young when you go out for Chinese food, then you know just how delicious this fluffy omelet is! It’s filled with bean sprouts, onions, green onions, and either chicken, pork, or shrimp, and it comes with a wonderful savory gravy to pour over the top. It’s a favorite for a reason, creating flavorful tastes in every mouthful. While it tastes complex with all those flavors and textures unfolding onto your palate in the most pleasing of ways, it’s incredibly simple to make....

Updated March 31, 2024 This classic Chicken Piccata recipe only takes 30 minutes to make! The crispy pan-fried chicken with a flavorful lemon butter caper sauce is dinner perfection. Serve with pasta or crusty bread. Chicken breasts are dredged in flour and panko (for extra crispiness), then pan fried, and served with a lemon butter sauce that is made with chicken broth, white wine, and briny capers. Finish with fresh lemon slices and herbs and you have a GOURMET meal that tastes better than any restaurant chicken piccata…and it’s SO simple to make at home....

If you think that seaweed is a relatively modern food fad for health junkies and detoxing vegans, you’d be wrong. As an ingredient, seaweed (海带, hǎi dài, sometimes known as kelp) has been eaten in China since prehistoric times and is one of the foods to which Chinese people attribute their first-rate health and longevity. We add seaweed to various dishes to add texture, flavor, and nutrition. For example, my mom sometimes adds a thin type of seaweed (rehydrated dried wakame) to egg drop soup....

Updated July 18, 2024 I decided to make Chocolate Zucchini Cupcakes with the rest of the zucchini. You can’t go wrong turning a vegetable into a chocolate dessert:) If you think adding zucchini to cupcakes sounds weird, gross, or just wrong, think again. These cupcakes are one of the most moist, rich, chocolaty cupcakes I have ever tasted. If you think no one will eat them because there is zucchini involved, just don’t tell them....

Published on May 20, 2024 This Asian-style chopped salad with kale, broccoli, cabbage, cucumber, carrots, red pepper, avocado, green onion, herbs, crunchy peanuts, and a creamy peanut dressing is a potluck favorite! The flavors are so fresh and delicious! I love that this salad is loaded with veggies. It starts with chopped broccoli and kale, but also has cucumber, cabbage, red pepper, and carrots. I also add avocado, cilantro, and chopped peanuts for a salty crunch....

Ingredients needed Butter. Flour. Salt. Caster sugar. Ice water. Apples. I love using Granny Smith apples as their crisp, tart flavor ia perfectly balanced by the spices and sugar. Fuji apples, honey crisp, etc will all work. Brown sugar. I used muscavado sugar but any brown sugar will work. Ground cinnamon. Ground nutmeg. Lemon juice. Egg. Heavy cream/whipping cream. How do you make a homemade apple pie? Start by making the pastry by pulsing butter, flour and sugar together in a food processor then add ice water until the dough just comes together....

Updated March 26, 2019 I love you guys so we are starting the week with CUPCAKES! And not just any cupcakes, but Cookies and Cream Cupcakes. These cupcakes are all kinds of amazing because they are chocolate cupcakes with an Oreo cookie hidden inside! Plus, the cupcakes get topped with cookies and cream frosting and an itty bitty Oreo cookie. Monday isn’t looking so bad, huh? I used my favorite chocolate cupcake recipe for the base of the cupcakes....

Published on June 17, 2024 Quinoa Salad with charred corn, avocado, poblano peppers, cotija cheese, and a simple cilantro lime dressing. This healthy gluten-free salad is full of flavor and a summer favorite! This Charred Corn & Avocado Quinoa Salad is incredible! It is loaded with flavor and the perfect side dish for summertime. The flavors are BEYOND! I am blown away every time I take a bite. Quinoa is the base and then the salad gets charred corn, roasted poblano peppers, avocado, cilantro, cotija cheese, and a refreshing cilantro lime dressing....

Crab roe tofu, or Xie Huang Dou Fu, is a famous dish from Shanghai cuisine. Originally the tofu is braised in a bed of crab roe. The oily and grainy texture and intensive seafood-y umami gives the soft bean curd a unique sensation, making it quite a luxurious dish. But since fresh crab roe can be hard to come by, especially out of season, and it’s quite expensive, most home chefs resort to using salted duck egg yolks as an alternative....

Look, if you don’t know by now that I’m quite partial to food encased in crumbs, then it’s like you don’t even know me at all. I’m a complete and utter texture junkie Give me crunch, and I’m yours. I do also like the smooth, silky and velvety textures certain foods offer but if I had a choice, I would eat crisp, crunchy foods day in and day out. I suppose that’s why you can find me, on my couch, at night, munching away on popcorn....

Why this recipe Are you a smoothie lover? If you are, you should try a different version with cucumber! Cucumber along with other hand-picked ingredients listed here will make a great tasting smoothie that will keep you energized throughout the day! I agree to be sent email. Cucumbers are important to add to your diet because they’re 95% water and naturally detoxify your body. Being rich in Vitamins A, B, and C, it’s an easy way to rejuvenate after a hard workout or a yoga session....

Roasted sweet potatoes have been one of my favorite side dishes for the longest time. Sweet potatoes are always a good idea in my book but when they are flavored with aromatic spices and roasted. Woah mama. They are the perfect side dish to curry and chicken. I also love serving them on seasoned plain yogurt with fresh coriander (cilantro) and sliced chillies. This makes it a delicious addition to a harvest table style lunch and a great vegetarian main....

My gran was queen of Christmas cooking and I looked forward to her delicious roast turkey and bread stuffing for months before the big day. I’ve taken my gran’s old fashioned homemade bread stuffing recipe and updated it a little because although the flavors are perfection, I never actually stuff my turkey. I prefer to cook the stuffing separately so that the edges become all crisp and this also results in a turkey that cooked a lot quicker and more evenly....