recipes

If you love almonds in a big way, you must try this fantastic Amaretto Almond Bundt Cake from Bake or Break. Such a lovely, delicious cake!

Yellow Bundt Cake with Dark Chocolate Ganache from Bake or Break is a favorite celebration cake, thanks to its crowd-pleasing flavors and ease of preparation.

Embrace citrus season with this delicious Blood Orange Olive Oil Cake. It’s bursting with fresh flavor, moist, fluffy and perfectly sweet.

Want to make incredible pizza from scratch at home? Try this incredibly easy and delicious homemade pizza dough with a thin, crispy crust and fat, chewy edges. You don't even need a mixer or use elbow grease to make it as it is a no knead dough. Your dough also gets a long ferment which develops its flavour and makes it easier to digest! This is a pushy recipe Dear Reader and I am SO excited to share this with you as I've been testing this for weeks!

My repertoire of sweet lemon recipes is limited, but, as it happened, my friend, the Irish pastry chef JR Ryall, was in town, with his new cookbook “Ballymaloe Desserts,” for which I wrote the foreword It contains a recipe for a homey hot lemon pudding It's not a soufflé, but it has a light, airy feel

You won’t go back to shop-bought after making this creamy dessert with a crunchy sugared topping

This old-fashioned chocolate sheet cake is incredibly moist and can be stirred together by hand if need be. Bake now using King Arthur flour!

This chocolate donut recipe is easy to make and the perfect recipe for your donut pan!

This tart-sweet braise is inspired by porc aux pruneaux, a classic French dish, which usually involves soaking prunes in tawny port before adding them to a sauce for pork Here, the prunes are soaked in a mix of vinegar and brown sugar, a less expensive way to amplify their mellow sweet-sour flavor (But by all means, use tawny port instead of the vinegar-sugar combo if you like!) This slow-cooker version employs a quick microwave roux for just a bit of thickening power, and is fragrant with orange zest and tart from a generous amount of sherry vinegar to balance the richness of the pork and dried fruit

Quick and easy homemade gourmet chocolate (ice cube candy) with multiple filling ideas. Pack these fancy chocolate in a pretty box for a nice homemade gift. Coming up with a name for today's post was so hard. I know many people won't agree with the name but it was better than calling them 'chocolate ice cubes!' As you have probably guessed, these homemade candies are made in ice cube trays. You can use a fancy mold but this is the way my dear Mom made them. Back in the day when I was little, they didn't have cool molds or

Derived from the Italian word for brine, “salamoia,” salmoriglio is a lemon sauce from Sicily and Calabria that is used to marinate and dress grilled meats and fish This pleasantly sharp, all-purpose dressing is equally suited to chicken breasts: It soaks into the crust and lends a citrus punch to the meat Fresh parsley, oregano or a combination of fresh herbs can be used, based on preference

This Chocolate Strawberry Cake is easy to make and tastes amazing! Three layers of rich chocolate sponge with strawberry mascarpone frosting.

In this crisp-skinned chicken dish, full of bold, zesty flavors, chicken legs are flavored with toasted sesame oil, garlic and ginger, then roasted until golden brown They’re served with a creamy peanut-sesame sauce that’s spiked with even more ginger and garlic, which can be quickly whisked together while the chicken legs cook Be sure to save any extra sauce; it will keep for a week in the fridge and is terrific with cut-up vegetables as a snack, or spooned onto roasted or fried tofu.

In this quick skillet dinner, which is reminiscent of sweet and sour pork and tacos al pastor, boneless pork chops are seared with just a bit of sugar to promote browning, then pineapple chunks cook in the drippings until caramelized but still crisp Once the pork is cooked, a spicy soy sauce is poured on top to add juiciness It’s a perfect combination: The tangy, sweet pineapple cuts the richness of the pork, while the soy sauce balances the sweetness of the pineapple

Everyone needs a great homemade cake recipe, and this is the best chocolate layer cake! The recipe is easy to make and always turns out perfectly. Plus step by step instructions for layer cakes!

These Small Batch Lemon Bars are so easy to make with a crisp shortbread crust and smooth silky lemon filling! This recipe makes 8 squares.

Lemon bars recipe, small batch made in a loaf pan! Recipe makes 6 small lemon bars, or 3 big lemon bars. Tangy lemon bars with a sugar cookie crust.

Whether you’re looking for a special Valentine’s Day treat or are just craving cheesecake, you have to try these lightened up cheesecake bars with strawberries and drizzled chocolate!  The first time I made these, I spent over half an hour cutting the strawberries into rose-shapes. While pretty, it was a lot of work and awkwardContinue reading Lightened Up Dark Chocolate Strawberry Cheesecake Bars →

All kinds of citrus fruits are in season during the winter and citrus desserts are the perfect antidote to dreary weather, with their bright, sunny flavors. Lemons are typically my go-to citrus for everything from cakes to pies, and meyer lemons in particular make a lovely twist on a classic cookie ...

This cake is tangy, tart, moist and dense, with a bright yellow, creamy swirl of Meyer lemon curd throughout.

These preserves are especially fruit-filled. The recipe calls for 2 types of winter citrus that are available now in many grocery stores, including Safeway and Whole Foods Markets.

This Neapolitan beef ragù is all about the onions.

Makes 4 to 6 servings Time 1 hour My favorite onion-featuring dish: they’re sliced thin, cooked until jammy (at least a half hour) in abundant olive oil, with salt and pepper and over pasta. All thanks to the great Marcella Hazan.

Inspired by orange roll recipes from the 1910s and ’20s, these citrusy cinnamon rolls have an old-fashioned feel, an easy-like-Sunday-morning breakfast from simpler times Perfumed with fresh orange zest in the base, filling and glaze, they come together in less than an hour, thanks to a fluffy, tender dough that doesn’t require yeast To help the biscuit-dough base end up as soft as any yeasted treat, cream cheese and extra milk are mixed into the dry ingredients

Yoghurt brings a silky mouthfeel to this loaf cake for a sweet-but-tangy afternoon treat

In this moreish dish, a pecorino paste gently melts in the residual heat of the pan, and then clings invitingly to plump gnocchi topped with fried lardons

Pizza Paradiso chef-owner Ruth Gresser has kept this pie on the menu since she opened her first restaurant in Washington in 1991.

Biscuits are what take us into the kitchen today to cook: fat, flaky mounds of quick bread, golden brown, with a significant crumb Composed of flour, baking powder, fat and a liquid, then baked in a hot oven, they are an excellent sop for sorghum syrup, molasses or honey They are marvelous layered with country ham or smothered in white sausage gravy, with eggs, with grits

A sandwich bun with the full flavor and texture of a soft pretzel.