Making a frittata is one of the easier, more impressive, things you can do with eggs. With about 6 eggs, any combination of vegetables you like, and about 20 minutes, you can have a tasty brunch recipe or breakfast-for-dinner recipe on your hands. This recipe for a spinach and tomato frittata is an endlessly customizable […]

Home » course » main course Here is an easy weeknight recipe that uses ground turkey, seasons it with a citrus-fish sauce-soy sauce dressing, and is served over rice with cucumbers and pickled onions. This ground turkey rice bowl is loosely inspired by the Thai meat dish larb (also spelled laab). It’s seasoned incredibly well […]

Here’s a recipe for horchata popsicles, upgraded with a bit of chai spice to complement the normal cinnamon flavors. Horchata is a rice milk that’s enjoyed in a lot of Latin countries. For hot days, simply pour your horchata into a popsicle mold and freeze for 3-5 hours to enjoy this refreshing frozen treat. In […]

This brioche donut hole recipe is made with my signature brioche dough recipe and is a perfect little two-bite dessert. If you love brioche donuts, you’ll love these brioche donut holes. Brioche donuts are one of my top 5 favorite foods. They’re light, fluffy, and with a hint of lemon zest in the dough, they’re […]

Here’s a  cauliflower rice salad recipe lightened up and made Whole30/Paleo. This cauliflower rice salad with grapes, cucumber, and tarragon recipe is perfect for a summer potluck or cookout. The flavors only improve in time as the raw cauliflower absorbs the flavors. This recipe, of course, can be made with Israeli couscous or rice and […]

Inspired by the flavors of Mexican elotes, here’s a recipe for a summer corn salad. This salad is crunchy, tender, citrusy, and quite satisfying. It comes together super quickly and is naturally light, super refreshing, and perfect for warmer weather. And, this chicken and corn salad is topped with the piece de resistance: jalapeño ranch! […]

This lemon and leek soup is inspired by avgolemono, a Greek lemon-egg soup that is light-tasting yet hearty and filling. In the wintertime, this avgolemono recipe is perfect for when you feel a little scratch in the back of your throat – the citrus is refreshing and the addition of egg to the broth makes […]

hi! hello! what’s up! it’s been about a year since i launched this food blog, and *damn* i have learned a lot. to celebrate, i wanted to pull together the top 10 recipes readers loved! The common threads seem to be that y’all like food made quickly in an Instant Pot or an Air Fryer, […]

Here’s an incredibly easy recipe for making spicy noodles at home – easier than takeout and so, so good. Using chili oil, soy sauce – this spicy recipe is delicious and cures that spicy carby craving you might be having.  Making this recipe takes about 5 minutes of active time to get THIS glorious snack. […]

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Paloma cocktails are made with grapefruit soda, grapefruit juice, tequila or mezcal, and are served with a salty rim. It’s like if a margarita and a salty dog had a love child. Palomas can be made on the rocks or frozen – a frozen paloma cocktail is sooo good in the summertime, and is also […]

Have you ever had trottole pasta? Trottole pasta is a curly-cue pasta shape that looks like a tight coil. Its shape clings to pasta sauce, so you get a perfect distribution of pasta:sauce with every bite. This recipe for trottole pasta is topped with a spicy-ish shrimp marinara sauce. The shrimp marinara sauce is a […]

This is a rhubarb panna cotta tart that capitalizes on the joys of rhubarb and is the next one in my series of rhubarb recipes this spring. in my sprint to get as much out of rhubarb season, i devised this rhubarb panna cotta tart to balance the sweet-tart flavors of rhubarb with a creamy-rich […]

This easy roasted chicken recipe is a staple you must memorize how to make. All you have to is stuff is with lemon and onion, season it with salt and pepper and then roast it in the oven for 1 hour at 425F. That really could be the whole blog post! If you want, save […]