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Street Corn Salad

Cookbook Club – Brian Lagerstrom In August, rather than a traditional cookbook we chose Brian Lagerstrom’s recipe blog https://www.brianlagerstrom.com/. Lagerstrom is a self-described “Restaurant chef turned YouTube chef”. For a view of the full meal, go to my Cookbook Club site. For now – my dish! I was excited to try the Street Corn (Elotes…

Mexican Hot Chocolate Sugar Cookie Ice Cream

After success with using grocery store chocolate chip cookies as a mix-in for Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream, I decided I could do something similar with a container of grocery story sugar cookies left over from the same party. This time I thought Mexican Hot Chocolate would be a good base for the…

Sambal and Parmesan Buns

Cookbook Club – Mooncakes and Milkbread For our Cookbook Club in June, we used Kristina Cho’s Mooncakes and Milkbread. The cookbook really did make us feel like we were in a Chinese bakery! To peruse all of our savory and sweet goods, go to my Cookbook Club site. For now – my dish! I think…

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream

A guest had brought over some grocery store chocolate chip cookies when we had a party. The cookies weren’t great to eat on their own, so pretty much the whole container was left. I can’t bear to throw food away, so I thought they might work as an ice cream mix-in. I decided to try…

Spaghetti Squash with Arugula, Bacon, and Goat Cheese

My keto friend was coming over for dinner, so I needed to come up with a dish that doesn’t have carbs. Even my husband, who lives on carbs, raved about how good this Spaghetti Squash with Arugula, Bacon and Goat Cheese was. It was very easy (roasting the squash was the longest part!), so I’ll…

Chocolate Chip Sour Cream Banana Bread

There are a ton of banana bread recipes out there, but I’m not big on banana flavored things. So it took quite a bit of tinkering for me to hit on a banana bread guessipe that I actually crave and make regularly. The combo of white and brown sugar gives it extra depth of flavor,…

Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream

My husband came home with a package of peanut butter cups and said, “I thought maybe you could use these for something… like ice cream.” Subtle 😉 But I couldn’t deny peanut butter cups make a great ice cream mix-in. I could have just chopped them up and folded them into a vanilla ice cream…

Bali Chicken

Cookbook Club – Celebrate! So I got married recently! The Cookbook Club did an event in celebration of our wedding, so we used Sheila Lukins’s Celebrate! cookbook. To see the whole celebratory spread, go to my Cookbook Club site. For now – my dish! When I saw this recipe for chicken marinated in soy sauce,…

Toasted Sesame Ice Cream

I was visiting Istanbul for a few days, and one evening when we returned to our hotel, they were serving house-made sesame ice cream in the lobby. It was one of the most incredible ice creams I have ever eaten – white sesame with and incredible deeply toasted flavor – and I’ve been hunting around…

Cream of Mushroom Chicken and Veg Casserole

I don’t often use frozen vegetables, because they tend to be mushy compared to fresh veg. But they can be handy when you’re short on time and haven’t been to the grocery store in a bit, and in this creamy chicken casserole topped with crunchy parmesan breadcrumbs they work great. Guessipe Season all sides of…

Chinese Chicken Salad

I picked up a rotisserie chicken at Costco, and as I was driving home remembered my mom’s Chinese Chicken Salad. She used to roast her own chicken, but then discovered the Costco rotisserie chicken and never went back. At $5 for a whole chicken, I don’t think it costs much more than it cost my…

Creamy Roasted Garlic and Zucchini Pasta

I bought garlic at the grocery store, only to discover I already had several heads of garlic at home. I roasted some to make Japanese egg salad, but figured I’d throw in a couple extra heads since I’d already have the air fryer going and I had plenty of garlic to spare. Needing to figure…