When you call Dorie Greenspan to say you’re coming over, this is what she bakes. “It takes longer to preheat the oven than to put these cookies together,” she wrote to me. “I love them for a million reasons, but chiefly because they're a simple pleasure that can be shared on the spur of the moment.” She includes a perfectly round variation in her book using muffin tins (and plenty of baker's spray to help them break free), but we preferred the ease and charm of the freeform version. Adapted slightly from Dorie's Cookies (Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016).
Aussie Burger with the lot - a sandwich filled with lettuce, tomato, beef patty, cheese, ketchup, beetroot, fried onions, bacon, pineapple and a fried egg on the top
I love making breakfast, but with our busy schedules, I don’t get to make it as often as I’d like. It’s impossible on the weekdays, so I usually try to on the weekends. I typically make us pancakes, or waffles a long with scrambled eggs and turkey bacon.
A base of stewed tomatoes, tomato paste, white wine and steak sauce surrounds chili-seasoned ground beef, bacon and kidney beans in this chili brightened with cilantro.
This Cornbread Crusted Chicken with Jalapeno recipe contains bacon, cream cheese, boneless, skinless chicken breast halves, yellow cornmeal, shredded cheddar cheese and more.
The Ode to Elvis Poke Cake - A peanut butter cake with banana cream pudding, topped with sliced bananas, cool whip, crispy bacon an a peanut butter glaze!
