World Cup of Yum

Bananas Foster Cake

There were seven bananas in the bunch I bought recently. I used three of them to make my Chocolate Chip Sour Cream Banana Bread, and was in the mood to try something different with the remaining four bananas. Caramelized bananas sounded good to me, so I decided to try making a cake with a banana…

Chocolate Biscoff Ice Cream

I was gifted some Biscoff butter, which I’d been struggling to figure out what to do with because it was almost too deliciously decadent. Then I saw Biscoff cookies on sale at Costco and I had the revelation that Biscoff ice cream was what I’d been saving that Biscoff butter for. I threw in some…

Chocolate Sesame Crisp Ice Cream with Cinnamon Nut Butter Swirl

This was a pantry clean-out ice cream that turned out so good I had to rapidly make several more batches in succession. I definitely succeeded in clearing the semi-sweet chocolates, sesame crisps, and cinnamon nut butter out of my pantry! Now I just have to resist the temptation to acquire more so that I can…

Caramelized Squash Tart

It’s summer squash season, so I’ve got zucchini and yellow squash coming out of my ears. My husband asked if there was any new way we could eat the squash (so demanding haha). I knew from making my caramelized zucchini and onion pasta that caramelizing is a tasty way to use up a lot of…

Street Corn Salad

Cookbook Club – Brian Lagerstrom In August, rather than a traditional cookbook we chose Brian Lagerstrom’s recipe blog https://www.brianlagerstrom.com/. Lagerstrom is a self-described “Restaurant chef turned YouTube chef”. For a view of the full meal, go to my Cookbook Club site. For now – my dish! I was excited to try the Street Corn (Elotes…

Mexican Hot Chocolate Sugar Cookie Ice Cream

After success with using grocery store chocolate chip cookies as a mix-in for Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream, I decided I could do something similar with a container of grocery story sugar cookies left over from the same party. This time I thought Mexican Hot Chocolate would be a good base for the…

Sambal and Parmesan Buns

Cookbook Club – Mooncakes and Milkbread For our Cookbook Club in June, we used Kristina Cho’s Mooncakes and Milkbread. The cookbook really did make us feel like we were in a Chinese bakery! To peruse all of our savory and sweet goods, go to my Cookbook Club site. For now – my dish! I think…

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream

A guest had brought over some grocery store chocolate chip cookies when we had a party. The cookies weren’t great to eat on their own, so pretty much the whole container was left. I can’t bear to throw food away, so I thought they might work as an ice cream mix-in. I decided to try…

Spaghetti Squash with Arugula, Bacon, and Goat Cheese

My keto friend was coming over for dinner, so I needed to come up with a dish that doesn’t have carbs. Even my husband, who lives on carbs, raved about how good this Spaghetti Squash with Arugula, Bacon and Goat Cheese was. It was very easy (roasting the squash was the longest part!), so I’ll…

Chocolate Chip Sour Cream Banana Bread

There are a ton of banana bread recipes out there, but I’m not big on banana flavored things. So it took quite a bit of tinkering for me to hit on a banana bread guessipe that I actually crave and make regularly. The combo of white and brown sugar gives it extra depth of flavor,…

Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream

My husband came home with a package of peanut butter cups and said, “I thought maybe you could use these for something… like ice cream.” Subtle 😉 But I couldn’t deny peanut butter cups make a great ice cream mix-in. I could have just chopped them up and folded them into a vanilla ice cream…

Bali Chicken

Cookbook Club – Celebrate! So I got married recently! The Cookbook Club did an event in celebration of our wedding, so we used Sheila Lukins’s Celebrate! cookbook. To see the whole celebratory spread, go to my Cookbook Club site. For now – my dish! When I saw this recipe for chicken marinated in soy sauce,…