It’s grapefruit season, and I got it in my head to make a grapefruit cake. As I searched around the internet for ideas, I was surprised to find that there weren’t many recipes available. And the reviews for the ones that did exist almost universally referenced very subtle grapefruit flavor. I wanted intense grapefruit flavor,…
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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…
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…
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…
Toasted Sesame Ice Cream
I was visiting Istanbul for a few days, and one evening when we returned to our hotel, they were serving house-made sesame ice cream in the lobby. It was one of the most incredible ice creams I have ever eaten – white sesame with and incredible deeply toasted flavor – and I’ve been hunting around…
Chinese Chicken Salad
I picked up a rotisserie chicken at Costco, and as I was driving home remembered my mom’s Chinese Chicken Salad. She used to roast her own chicken, but then discovered the Costco rotisserie chicken and never went back. At $5 for a whole chicken, I don’t think it costs much more than it cost my…