Red wine chocolate truffles
Raise your hand if you’ve ever been personally victimized by Valentine’s Day. Great, so now that we agree V-Day is the worst (and Mean Girls is still the best), I think…
3 Interesting Ways to Use Your Coffee Grinder
Hello, friends! I’m adding a new section to my blog—HACKS—where I will be sharing fun tips and tricks you can use in your kitchen, and I would love your help.…
Italian almond Christmas cookies
Celebrate the holidays with these irresistible, bite-size Christmas cookies with almond icing and a crunchy, festive sugar coating. Merry Christmas, everybody! Hope you’re all enjoying the holidays with family, friends,…
Spicy chili
It’s officially comfort food season! Let the countdown to Thanksgiving begin, and the counting of calories end. It’s time to slip on that oversized sweater and pretend that bread doesn’t make…
Chewy pumpkin ginger cookies
It’s safe to say when most people think of ginger cookies, they think of ginger snaps—those crunchy-ass medallions that come in a cardboard box you’ve had in your pantry since…
Polenta trout cake with tangy green pepper sauce
There are two sides when it comes to leftovers. You either cower away from the casserole your mom made three days ago as if green gas is billowing out of it, or…
Southwestern shrimp salad
When I was growing up, my mom would make this bean salad called Texas caviar. It had all the usual suspects of Tex-Mex cuisine—corn, bell pepper, onion, tomato, etc. We would…
Blueberry pancakes
There are only a few food items I’m not particularly fond of and one of them is pancakes. They just aren’t that great (they taste like dust)—end of discussion. However, anything soaked in…
Cream cheese strawberry banana bread
I don’t consider myself much of a baker, but as soon as someone finds out I like to cook, they assume I can whip up a batch of chocolate soufflés…
Homemade meatballs
By now you should know I’m a pretty big fan of Italian(s)—food, people, culture—so it should come as no surprise that the guy I’m dating is Italian. When we first…