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Heart of Palm Salad with Cranberry Molasses Dressing

Mission: Molasses continues. I was recently visiting my uncle’s Hawaiian farm and mentioned that I love heart of palm. He said it just so happened he needed to clear out a couple palm trees, and proceeded to harvest me some fresh heart of palm! While I was sad to learn that the only way to…

Crispy Molasses Kale

I was gifted 3 bottles of molasses… but I’ve never cooked with molasses before. Not one to waste food stuffs, I set out to find ways to use the smoky sweet syrup. Thus begins Mission: Molasses. These salty sweet kale chips turned out so good that my boyfriend ate them all before I could even…

Grilled Spring Onions with Almond Sauce

Cookbook Club – The Latin Road Home For April’s Cookbook Club, we used The Latin Road Home: Savoring the Foods of Ecuador, Spain, Cuba, Mexico, and Peru by Jose Garces. To savor all the incredible Latin flavors alongside us, go to my Cookbook Club site. For now – my dish! I adore green onions, but…

Peanut Butter Swirl Brownie Cake

I wanted to make a cake for my boyfriend’s birthday, but as you might know I’m on Team Pie, so I wasn’t excited to make a typical birthday cake. What I came up with is actually a giant brownie pretending to be a cake… shhh, don’t tell my boyfriend because he loved it! It’s rich…

Fried Mac N Cheese Bites

When I home-make mac n cheese, it’s always a big pot that makes for lots of yummy leftovers. Inspired by my success with using leftover risotto to make arancini, I decided a similar thing could be done to make fried mac n cheese bites. I had made such a big pot of mac n cheese…

Mini Amaretto Cakes with Blood Orange Topping

After my Buttermilk Panna Cotta with Blood Orange Topping was such a hit, I found myself constantly thinking about how the amaretto made that topping shine. And it occurred to me that I could really showcase the amaretto flavor by using the blood orange topping on amaretto cake. I’d also been trying to come up…

Buttermilk Panna Cotta with Blood Orange Topping

My friend gave me a bag of blood oranges from his tree. They are sweet and so stunning, so I thought they would be a perfect topping for panna cotta. And I had some leftover buttermilk, so I decided to make it buttermilk panna cotta. Just a tablespoon of amaretto added a luxurious almond flavor…

Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Hot Honey Browned Butter

Cookbook Club – Dining In The book for our March Cookbook Club was Dining In by Alison Roman, which aims to provide simple yet compelling recipes that make you want to cook and eat in. To see everything we dined on, go to my Cookbook Club site. For now – my dish! When I think…

Lemon Buttermilk Bundt Cake

My friend gifted me a bundt pan on the condition that he would get some bundt cake desserts at future dinner parties. I think he made that stipulation because he knows I’m on Team Pie. But I’m always excited to use a new kitchen thingamabob, so I set out to figure out bundt cakes. This…

Arancini

I made the Sausage Risotto with Balsamic-Roasted Shallots from the Back Pocket Pasta cookbook. First, let me say that it is INSANELY good. But it makes a pretty large portion, so I had quite a bit leftover even though my boyfriend went to town on it. So I made Arancini (Italian rice balls). I wouldn’t…

Lavender Lemon Cream Pie

It’s March, and that means my favorite holiday… Pi(e) Day! As the world is figuring out how to live with COVID and slowly opening back up, we were able to do a big Pie Day bonus event for Cookbook Club. Continuing to find fun ways to use lavender in my cooking, I made a Lavender…

Lavender Lemon Cookies

So far my adventures in cooking with lavender have been successful, so I’m gonna keep going. I recently had some lemon cookies at a party, and as I was eating them couldn’t help thinking a lavender lemon cookie could be a treat. It is! Guessipe 1 stick butter 1 cup lavender sugar 1 TBSP lemon…