White Chocolate Lime Cookies
This recipe was listed on the Guardian.co.uk as a Highlight of the Week by Dan Lepard! See the mention here! Have you ever craved something, let’s say a cookie, and could not find a recipe that looked like it would be any good? That is the predicimate I found myself in when I came up with this recipe. I was fresh off my Lime Bars and I had lime on the brain, but I wanted a cookie. Something subtle, sweet, and creamy...
Aloo Paratha
When I was taking my Breads & Rolls class last year in culinary school we made an Indian bread called Aloo Paratha. It is a wheat bread dough that is filled with a curried potato mixture, rolled flat and cooked on a hot griddle. They were, in a word, delicious! I have thought of them fondly, but had not gotten around to making them when the curry bug bit one afternoon. I had potatoes, I had Indian spices, and I had wheat...
Char Siu Bao – Chinese Pork Steam Buns
When my husband was little his mother, who is from Taiwan, would take him along on her shopping expeditions to Chinatown in his hometown of Chicago. As a treat, she would buy him char siu bao, or Chinese BBQ pork steamed buns. I believe food can create memories, and passing a Chinese bakery one day a few years ago we saw some of these pale buns in the case and he was five again, shopping with his mom and munching on buns. Of...
Chocolate Chip Cupcakes
First a bit of something fun! I would like to thank Jess and Lyns at All Things Cupcake who selected me as one of the Cupcake Talent Picks of the Week! All Things Cupcake features loads of beautiful cupcake pictures, as well as other awesome cupcake related items. Check it out, and thanks again for choosing my cupcake! Now, on to what you came here for … cupcakes! When I was growing up my mother would make chocolate chip...
Lime Bars
My husband loves key lime pie, but the filling is rich with all those egg yolks and sweetened condensed milk and he is not really into rich foods. One Saturday I was watching an episode of Everyday Baking on PBS which featured a recipe for Lime Squares with Pistachio-Graham Crust. They looked good, and with less of the lime filling I thought they would be perfect for my husband. First, the nuts had to go. Next, I added some...
Curry Crusted Chicken Thighs
I love Indian flavors, but I don’t always have the time, or the foresight, to marinade a bag of chicken for a day or two during the week. Some nights I need curry, and I need it fast. This recipe is perfect because it take about five minutes to prep but yields chicken that tastes like it has been soaking up curry marinade all day. I use boneless, skinless chicken thighs because they stay moist after being roasted in a very hot...
