Corn bread bread pudding is comfort food. The best way to use up cornbread is to turn it into bread pudding. I mean who doesn’t love cornbread? Throw in some blueberries or other fruit, add some whipped cream or vanilla ice cream and evn perhaps a whiskey sauce and you have a dessert for champions. …
These salty mini cheese quesadillas are perfect party fare. They can be made ahead and reheated in 5 minutes and are guaranteed to be a crowd-pleaser! (This is an updated post from 2017.) This post for mini cheese quesadillas is the most popular post on my blog. Perfect for enjoying while watching a game, I …
This overnight breakfast casserole, made with lox and bagels, is perfect for entertaining. Filled with cream cheese and plenty of everything seasoning, this casserole would also be great with pastrami. Just plan on refrigerating overnight and baking it for about 50-60 minutes the next day. Garnish with smoked salmon, tomatoes, capers and onions and you …
This cornmeal olive oil cake is the perfect cake for cornbread lovers. It is also the perfect cake for fall. So simple and rustic and perfect with poached rosemary pears. I’m not going to let another fall go by without giving you this olive oil cake recipe with cornmeal. I’ve baked it several times now …
This brown sugar coffee cake has a pie crust like bottom, a tender cakey interior filled with fruit or chocolate, and a crumbly, nutty streusel topping. This is my best coffee cake recipe. That might be debatable, however it is certainly one I’ve been baking for a number of years. I didn’t quite …
This Cauliflower Gratin Casserole has the right stuff. Made to be rich; this dish is filled with cheese and cream. Some might think of it as mac and cheese, except cauliflower replaces the mac. Reminds me of a steakhouse side dish-where often times you want the side dish more than the steak! With Passover and …
Jamaican patties are the equivalent of Jewish kreplach, Chinese potstickers, Mexican empanadas, Italian ravioli, Cornish pasties, American hot pockets. These flaky curry pastries filled with a savory spiced filling, which could be ground beef or lentils, are so good. I’d be happy to eat one out of each hand! Yeah, man. It’s a …
Nigella’s chocolate fudge loaf cake is decadent and divine. But filled with a mascarpone whipped cream filling put this over the top! Zoe flew back to Philly yesterday, which meant I spent a day doing nothing. Before leaving we woke up early and she snuggled in my bed just to get in a few extra …