Coming in hot with a pasta recipe today! Boursin Pasta is loaded with so much flavor! Call it a Boursin risotto or Boursin orzo if you’d like, but the fact is that it’s a delicious orzo recipe perfect for weeknight dinner. The orzo pasta simmers with chicken broth, a block of Boursin cheese, and a handful of baby spinach. Heck, you can even toss in a couple of cups of shredded rotisserie (or try my fauxtisserie) chicken....

What You Need to Make This Recipe Chocolate — use good quality chocolate as your brownies will only be as good as the ingredients you use. Since chocolate is the base of the batter, I highly suggest splurging on it. Lower quality chocolate chips have a coating on them to help them hold their shape and won’t melt as smoothly. If you do not have a bag of good-quality semi sweet chocolate chips, opt for chocolate bars and roughly chop them to melt....

This cake gets moister with time (it’s even better the next day!) which makes it a great recipe to prepare in advance of a late summer gathering with family and friends. Try another one of my fruit dessert recipes like blueberry crisp recipe, clafoutis recipe, and blueberry buckle recipe. What You Need to Make This Recipe Plums – fresh plums are best for an optimal sweet and juicy flavor. Be sure to pit them, then cut them into quarters....

For my third day of cooking from a celebrity chef, I chose my most favorite chef and cookbook author, Meenakshi Ammal. After my mother, I owe a lot of my cooking skills to this lady. Her books are the most essential copies of the books that I have owned. To this day whenever I am cooking traditional food, my go-to person is her book Samaithu par (in Tamil) or Cook and See (English)....

Crispy Polenta Fries – Baked or Air-Fried! Crispy, hearty polenta fries with a creamy cashew garlic dip! Say what?! Yes, this is the perfect finger food recipe which is much healthier than most store-bought snacks. This gluten-free, plant-based snack is amazing for Netflix evenings or even as a side dish. If you love snacks, make sure to also check out these crispy onion bhaji, pakora, or air-fried oyster mushrooms. It’s a very popular dish in Brazil and I really love it!...

These cheesy potatoes are no exception! Made with sliced potatoes and onions, a rich and creamy cheese sauce, and baked until golden and bubbly, they’re a perfect side dish for Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, or Sunday dinners with the family. These cheesy potatoes are a no-fail recipe that is always sure to delight. For more classic potato recipes, try my twice-baked potatoes recipe, hasselback potatoes recipe, and easy roasted potatoes....

Looking for more easy holiday cookie recipes? Try my Thumbprint Cookies or my Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies! Peanut Butter Blossoms The holiday season is in full swing, so you know what that means… Time to decorate ALL of the holiday cookies! Honestly, it really is one of my favorite traditions — sprinkles and chocolate and food coloring (oh my!) — it doesn’t get much better than that. This year, forego the classic sugar cookies and give these Hershey Kiss peanut butter blossoms a try instead!...

Need more noodles? Singapore Noodles are a fiery alternative to their Japanese brothers or check out our Asian Recipe Collection for more inspiration. What is Yakisoba? Yakisoba, or Yaki Soba (UK) is an iconic Japanese street food dish. As Japanese dishes go, it’s fairly new to the world- less than 100 years old! This modern and versatile dish is made up of noodles, vegetables, meat (or vegetarian alternative), and sweet/sour yakisoba sauce....

The batter mixes together easily, and the smooth and tangy cream cheese frosting is the finishing touch for these absolutely perfect red velvet cupcakes! This recipe is simple enough to make as a sweet treat after work, yet is elegant enough to serve with Christmas dinner! For more cupcake recipes, try my vanilla cupcake recipe, easy chocolate cupcakes, or lemon cupcake recipe. What You Need to Make This Recipe All-Purpose Flour – weigh your flour using a food scale for the most accurate measurement....

This lemon elderflower cake is perfect for any occasion! If you saw the smash cakes I made for the twin’s first birthday you know I will put pink flowers on a boy’s birthday cake! ? About the Flavor The lemon curd is so bright and flavorful, it’s really a grand trick for something to have a decent amount of butter in it but still taste light and refreshing. For those of you not familiar, elderflowers have a fragrant and floral taste with hints of citrus making them the perfect partner for lemons....

How Do You Make Cookie Cups? To make cookie cups you add cookie dough to a muffin tin, bake until done then use a cylindrical tool like a shot glass or tablespoon to create a well, which you then fill with something delicious! A Few Tips and Pointers Add a few more tablespoons of cream if you want your chocolate center more molten. You can also try adding in brandy or bourbon for an EXTRA treat When creating your “well” in your cookie cups, be sure to do so right after they’re taken out of the oven....

This is the perfect dip to make for apple season! Pumpkins are pumpkins, but apples reign supreme for me. Caramel apples are one of my favorite things from my childhood. A tart apple covered in gooey, shiny caramel and sprinkled with peanuts? YES, PLEASE. As an adult, I’ve found many ways to sneak apples into everything in the fall. I mean, of course, once you’ve made all the homemade cider, cider braised pot roast, apple pie french toast bake, and you’ve still got apples on hand – a homemade caramel apple dip is a no-brainer!...

If vareniki-parceling is your new favourite pastime, you could try your hand at crafting their dumpling cousins; Potato, Bacon and Caramelised Onion Pierogi and Meat Dumplings Pelmeni. Obviously, I am romantic about all things from that corner of the globe; the landscapes, the architecture, the literary works. And, of course, the food! Steeped in a rich history of power and loss that spans centuries, I feel my personal connection to it whenever making vareniki....

Love roasted vegetables in your sandwich? Try my Goats Cheese Sandwich with Roasted Vegetables! Looking for something epic to feed your household? Between work, chores and everything else, there isn’t always time to try something new and interesting. That can sometimes leave us reaching for the take out menu, but that can get expensive in a hurry. What we need is something wonderful and new we can make without a lot of fuss in our own kitchen....

Marshmallows and buttercream and cake make for a perfect bite; it’s something about the various textures working together. So even if you don’t make these sheep try it out on your next cake or cupcake! I love Wallace & Gromit and of course Shaun the Sheep, and these cute sheep cupcakes just so happen to look like him! These are a perfect treat for spring or Easter gatherings. You can pair them with my Easter Bunny and Baby Chick cupcakes for a full spring-time spread!...

Simple Vegetable Biriyani, like the name, says is the easiest one-pot meal that you could make for lunch boxes or for a weekend spread. You make it for 2 or for 10, the recipe is pretty straightforward. There are days when I make the elaborate Biriyani by marinating the vegetables, making my own spice mix, and so on. But that does not work for everyday cooking. Store Bought Biriyani Masala As much as I am always insisting on making your spice mix, I also keep a box of store-bought masala box in my pantry....

Hello there! I’m still here! I haven’t disappeared. A small Memorial Day break snowballed into a week-long hiatus for me. There are a ton of things going on behind the scenes at the moment. Things I want to share with you, but I feel it would be premature to do so now. So let’s give it a month, and I hope that by then I’ll be able to tell you more about why I’ve been so MIA!...

Usually when making methi paratha, I add the chopped methi leaves directly into the wheat flour and make the dough. I also make Aloo Methi Paratha, which has cooked methi leaves in the dough. I came across the recipe for Stuffed Methi Paratha, here and it was very interesting to see a methi masala stuffing made to be stuffed inside the dough. This week for the blogging marathon, I am making travel food and this is the recipe I chose as a main dish recipe....

If you like a little spice then try my Baked Jerk Chicken Recipe! Thai Grilled Chicken This Thai Grilled Chicken is loaded with flavor. The marinade is made of fresh ginger, garlic, thai chili sauce, low sodium soy sauce, fish sauce, light brown sugar, fresh squeezed lime juice and Sriracha. You can make it as spicy as you would like with a kick of Sriracha. I like to double the amount in this recipe because I like it extra spicy!...

Homemade Mongolian Beef loaded with tender garlic-scented beef, a sweet and salty brown sauce, and tons of crisp scallions for color and crunch. I serve it up on a bed of fluffy jasmine rice, and this recipe has quickly become a weekly staple around here! One night I was making Mongolian Beef for dinner with the two huge bunches of scallions that our grocery store sent in my weekly grocery pick up....