Where Cooking Meets Photography
It's time for another installment of my favorite ongoing series on the blog, Cheers to the Weekend! A) because it's the weekend (finally) and B) because it's been a while since the last one went up and that just won't do. It's also time for another much needed sheet pan dinner recipe. If you recall, some of the other sheet pan wonders have been this very first Mediterranean chicken thigh situation, this sausage and peppers number and let us not forget that yes, you most definitely can make ...
I love me some nachos. I’ll rephrase that though and say that I love me some really good nachos. You might think I don’t have much to say about the subject—because how much can a person really talk about chips loaded with cheese and topped with everything—but you’d be surprised. I have many opinions when it comes to this dish. I’d like to think they are very valid opinions, mostly about what it takes to make a really good nacho. There are multiple components that must be checked off in order to ...
I went to Italy for the first time last year, visiting Venice, Florence and Rome, and it was probably one of the best trips I've ever taken. I talked about it a bit when I shared this Pizza Bianca and Cacio e Pepe recipe. One of the best dishes I ate on the trip—which is really hard for me to say because we had some amazing food—was in Rome in a small hole in the wall place out in a courtyard with music playing late one evening. I'm pretty sure that's another reason why I loved the dish so much. ...
Cinco de Mayo and the Kentucky Derby land on the same day this year, which apparently only happens every seven years. So because of this very special occasion, I think it's important, no necessary, for us to celebrate accordingly. It's our civic duty. Whether you want to call it Cinco de Derby or Mexi-Derby Day, it doesn't really matter because the one important thing I do know is that you need to make this Tex-Mex Shrimp and Grits on Saturday. It's the Southern classic, shrimp and grits, with ...
I just recently got into making (and eating) shakshuka. I’ve been seeing it all over the internets and social medias for a while now, and definitely all of last year, and yet I never tried it because I’m the type of person that goes against the things that seem like they’re being pushed down my…
My thought is that you can never have too many coffee cake recipes. It’s that ultimate breakfast cake that you can get away with eating first thing in the morning. It always reminds me of elementary school. Getting a giant square slice of crumb cake with a carton of milk. It’s what dreams are made…
I’ve been so excited for Skye McAlpine‘s A Table in Venice cookbook to come out and it finally has and let me tell you that it is well worth the wait. It’s beyond beautiful, and one of the few times where I’ve actually read a cookbook page to page. It feels like I’m there in…
BLT Eggs Benedict is what you get when you want brunch but also lunch, which is basically what brunch is I guess, but still, you know what I mean. It’s when you want a sandwich, but an open-faced sandwich. When you can’t decide between a Breakfast BLT or eggs benedict first thing in the morning….
When I was a kid, I would BEG my mother for a sausage egg mcmuffin (from you know where) because they were, and I’m sure still are if we’re honest with ourselves, very delicious. Every now and then she’d give in and let me have one and I swear I never wanted it to end….
Forget everything you think you know about Dutch Babies and throw it out the window. You won’t need it here. This isn’t your ordinary Dutch Baby. A large sweet pancake topped with berries and sweetened cream is nowhere to be found today. That’s because I’ve turned the classic Dutch Baby on it’s head and converted…
I’m very particular when it comes to eating a banana. They have to be bright yellow with a little green still at the top, but absolutely no black spots at all. I can’t eat a banana once it has begun to ripen, not even in the slightest because their sweetness is just too much by…
I ate a lot of fluffernutters as a kid—almost an alarming amount—and so I like to consider myself a fluffernutter connoisseur of sorts. It was my mom’s favorite thing to make me because it literally requires no baking whatsoever, and if you’ve been following along for a while you’ll know that my mom isn’t a…
So I’m still on this Italian kick, and I can’t seem to shake it off. Last week I shared a recipe for a classic and simple Tiramisu, and if you read that post and felt like you just needed some more traditional Italian treats in your life, then you’re in luck. In that post I also…
I think I’ve mention on here already that I’m taking an Italian class at the local community college down the street from my house, just for fun. I ride my bike down there twice a week, Tuesday and Thursday mornings, and it’s so much fun. I really needed something to do that wasn’t related to…
To me, tres leches cake is just screaming to be turned into ice cream. I mean all of those different types of milks soaked into a soft sponge cake and topped with fresh whipped cream with cherries and sprinkles on top; it’s basically what ice cream dreams are made of. I’ve had this idea to…
New York cheesecake meets doughnut and there’s honestly nothing better than this moment right here, right now, and us discussing this incredible creation. I have to admit that the idea came to me last week when I saw a photo on America’s Test Kitchen’s Instagram account. The photo in question was for their cherry cheesecake…
Do you know how sometimes you just really don’t feel like washing dishes? Mostly because you’ve been working all day, but also because you’ve just slaved away for hours cooking dinner, and so the last thing you want to do is stand in front of the sink scrubbing away at the mess you just made….
The last slab pie I made on the blog, S’mores Slab Pie, was such a big hit that I decided I needed to try my hand on another variation. It just had to be done (but I’m most definitely not complaining about it). If there’s one thing I’ve learned through the years of blogging, it’s…
I’m always so adamant and a firm believer that we all need a weekend cooking and/or baking project that’s a bit more labor intensive. Something that we wouldn’t really try during the week because we don’t have the time or patience after a long day’s work. The weekend is for trying out those new recipes…
One of my mamma’s all time favorite treats has been, and will always be a fifty-fifty bar, or as some of you might know it as an orange creamsicle. It’s basically a vanilla ice cream popsicle center with an orange ice cream covering it. Hence a 50/50 popsicle. My sisters and I had them a…
Do you know how sometimes your eyes are bigger than your stomach? You just buy a bunch of stuff at the grocery store because you think to yourself, “Oh I’m totally going to eat all of this. In one sitting no less.” Then when it comes time to show off your all you can eat…
The way I look at it, the sole purpose of making a slab pie is to either A). feed a crowd or B). have an excuse to eat a giant pie all by yourself. Let’s be honest though, If I was given the option, I would definitely choose the latter because when it comes to…
