Dietitian in training who also loves baking, especially cupcakes, healthy cooking, food styling, and photography shares her passion, recipes, and tips for easy, delicious homemade food.
I am frantically trying to share with you all of my slow cooker/soup recipes I have in queue before the weather turns warmer (which for some has probably already happened but for me, alas, it has not). I couldn't let
We've been fans of Andrew Carmellini's Fried Chicken for quite a while, seeking it out at Locanda Verde back in '09, scouting it out at the opening of The Dutch earlier this year, and enjoying it waaaay...
Always crunchy and garlicky, this perfect homemade pickle requires no special equipment, no canning experience and tastes just like Claussen's refrigerated kosher dill pickles.
The slightly sweet, soy-based hoisin sauce is to Chinese food what ketchup is to American food. Look for hoisin and rice noodles with other Asian foods in most supermarkets.
Wrap a buttery freezer cookie around some cinnamon filling and you've got a bite size morsel of deliciousness. Plus you get the bonus ease of a slice and bake cookie that you can have in your freezer ready to bake at any time.
Stir up this version of a Chinese menu favorite with crunchy peppers and smooth, peanutty sauce. They'll love it for the flavor; only you'll know it's low-cal and low-fat.
This is a very basic, but exceedingly delicious, version of the much-beloved side dish. Serve it to people you love. If they don't already love you back, they will.