Remember the BBQ Chicken Braid? The possibilities of filling bread with magical ingredients has been on my mind ever since. The next step beyond the braid was inevitable since homemade pizza is such a staple around here: a changed-up calzone.
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.
Homemade Rice Pudding takes milk, rice, and sugar and produces a wonderfully sweet and creamy dessert which so often evokes feelings of nostalgia that we think of it as a 'comfort' food. With Demo Video
When the weather gets cold, there's nothing like homemade soup to warm you up. This tomato basil soup is so delicious, you will never want to go back to canned soup again. Make it for your friends and family, and they will be begging for the recipe.
Friends rave every time I make this dish. It's a comfort food recipe, and I especially enjoy making it on cold or rainy days. I often use a whole chicken cut into pieces and skinned. You can make the store-bought chicken stock taste more like homemade by adding some fresh herbs and parsley and simmering until it's reduced by half.
Homemade fresh pasta dough recipes include egg pasta, plain pasta dough, semolina flour dough, whole wheat pasta, and pasta dough flavored with vegetables, seafood, and herbs.
The traditional version of this classic Moroccan stew is made with homemade preserved lemons and involves a long cooking time. We've simplified the recipe by using lemon rind and juice to achieve the same subtle lemon flavor. Ours is also slow-simmered to yield a rich broth like the original's, but it's made in a fraction of the time. Since this dish is so saucy, it's best served over couscous.
The pumpkin is roasted in the oven with thyme, cumin and paprika before marinating in lemon juice to give it a truly delicious flavor. Layered with fresh homemade pasta, baby spinach and almonds this vegetarian lasagna recipe is really, really gooooooood!! To save time simply use fresh store brought lasagna sheets, found in the cold section of your supermarket or simply pre-cook dried lasagna sheets instead.
A melt in your mouth flank steak that is cooked quickly with a high heat. The marinade of soy sauce, honey and garlic does the trick for this cut of meat.
I know, I know, sweet potato fries are like, so, last summer, but hey, what can I say except it takes my little sheltered, homebody self a while to catch on to food trends. We've been eating these babies right