Colorful recipes with seasonal food
Candy apples are a Halloween staple. They are super inexpensive, fairly easy, and always look sooooo shiny and cool. I did black this year for Halloween as a Poison Apple – which would work well for a snow white theme as well. You can make your candy apples any color you like! Just add your…
If you are doing low carb or keto then you know noodles tend to be off the menu. I found these great konjac noodles that work as a sub in most recipes that have zero net carbs. Yes, the texture is a little weird…to me anyway…. they are far chewier than “normal” noodles. But…
Looks like a regular beef stew, doesn’t it? It tastes like a delicious, comforting, beef stew but it is keto friendly! How? Well, we left out the potatoes and put in a few turnips instead. You could also use daikon if you have it. We used a little xanthan gum as a thickener instead…
I am never making another macaroni and cheese recipe again. This is the one! It has the most amazing flavor. You know how most mac & cheese is just “meh”… like, not terrible but not *jazz hands*. This is super *jazz hands* with a little *razzle dazzle* thrown in for good measure. It is a…
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The toughest part of creating a new recipe is coming up with a name. I am TERRIBLE at naming recipes. I either go with way too much information in the title and it ends up being 4 paragraphs long, or I try to be all clever and completely miss the mark. This time I…
I love donuts of all kinds. Beignets are adorable little bite sized donuts that… if you stuff with Oreos… are exactly what heaven tastes like. Pretty sure. Donuts of any kind are always a little bit of work because you have to make the dough, let it rise, shape it, let it rise, then…
I previously posted this recipe in an Instagram post, but since I make it so much, I figured it would be easier to find here for future reference. The sauce recipe is adapted from Lev Grossman’s Best General Tso Tofu recipe on Food52, and the idea to use sweet potato starch as the coating for…
I learned recently that there are at least 2 different kinds of challah: the sweet, eggy Ashkenazi version which is probably what most people think of when they think of challah, and the Sephardic version, which is found in the Breaking Breads and Pastry Love cookbooks. I’ve made both versions, but I like making the…
I’ve been on a bit of a cupcake making bender lately. Remember when cupcakes were at the top of the social media dessert food chain? Cupcakes…everywhere… Let’s bring those days back. I mean… cupcakes are everything. Cake you can hold in your hand… the perfect dessert. And options? holy heck the choices cupcakes offer!…
Anyone else about done with this year? I mean… I know it’s only just barely coming into fall but I figure if we start with the Christmas/Thanksgiving/Halloween posts maybe we can just rush through the rest of this year and start new in January…. It might help. You never know. Anyway, this adorable little…
Hold on to your hats garlic lovers. This burger is going to blow your mind! I used garlic grown in our nephew’s garden so it was SUPER garlic-y. If you are using mild garlic then I would recommend using more than the recipe calls for. After you eat one of these bad boys you should…
Well this is my first post in almost a year, so you know these are worth making! I’ve been trying to find a sourdough waffle recipe that I like as much as Smitten Kitchen’s essential raised waffles, but none of the ones I tried really had the flavor or texture I was looking for. Then…
Nothing beats a frosty pina colada when the summer heat gets crazy. Even better? This Pina Colada Cloud dessert! It’ll transport you to the tropics while you are staying at home in your own backyard. Make it in a 9 X 13 pan for a bigger group OR in 2 – 8 inch pans if…
Sue and I eat a lot of sandwiches. Sandwiches are awesome. What is weird is that we haven’t shared a lot of sandwiches on our blog. We definitely need to fix that. I’m going to start right now by sharing one of our favorites. A Cuban sandwich. You can make this on normal bread but…
Did you know that rhubarb and raspberry are an amazing combo? I thought they’d be too tart together but when you mix them in a cake and throw on some streusel they are juuuuuuuust right. I didn’t add nuts to the topping but, believe me, they’re a great addition as well. I developed this recipe…
Is there anything better than ice cream sandwiches? Seriously… I mean you take two delicious things and sandwich a third delicious thing in the middle…. basically heaven, am I right? These bad boys only take about an hour to whip up, if your using store bought ice cream, and are sure to be a big…
This is a little twist on a classic apple pie. I want to start off by saying if you make something in a muffin tin which has a pie crust THEY ARE NOT CALLED MINI PIES. Okay? They are called tarts. I will fight you on this. I’d like to also mention that these tarts are…
In the spring Sue and I were running a Chopped-style food competition on Facebook for our friends and family as something to do while self isolating. One week we had chocolate and peanut butter as our mystery ingredients. I knew a lot of entries would be sweet ones so I decided to go savory! There…
Sue and I have been making butterhorns for years and years. Our family recipe (which can be found HERE) is one we make every year at Christmas time. So, when my friend, Len, came to me with a recipe to try that was named “Butterhorns” but was a completely different recipe than ours, I knew…
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What to do with that rhubarb quickly piling up in the garden? So many choices. So many delicious choices. But… have you ever made a margarita with it? Now, if you want something refreshing and family friendly, try our Rhubarb Lemonade (recipe HERE) If you want something refreshing and more adultish… try this recipe. Sweet strawberries…
