If you have been following my page religiously you will probably notice I love a balance of sweet and heat. One of the ways I achieve that is adding a little honey to just about anything spicy. These tacos are bold with flavor with the addition of hot honey. To help balance the flavor, I …
I think breakfast has to be the meal I most look forward to especially on weekends. There are so many ways you can use common breakfast ingredients. Eggs are one of the ingredients I most often use, either for scramble or an omelette. This is my take on a Mexican style omelette that is filled …
This Limoncello Hibiscus Collins is a modern twist on the classic Tom Collins. Collins is a classic drink that consist of gin, lemon juice and carbonated water. This modern take on it uses limoncello in addition to lemon juice, Tazo berry hibiscus mixer and ginger beer. I recently made limoncello ricotta pancakes and I am …
I am all about coconut and I must try or have anything that has coconut in it. There is a certain enthusiasm anytime I am at the market and I see something that has coconut in it. So when I thought of an ingredient this week, I thought of these coconut bread muffins. If you …
Taco night or any other night just got a winter upgrade. Think about everything you love about steak fajitas. Usually served with flour tortillas but not this time. All that is getting stuffed in an acorn squash making use of this winter vegetable. I love acorn squash and it is probably my favorite winter squash. …
Super Bowl weekend has come and gone and all I can think about is my homemade barbecue sauce. In my first attempt at barbecue sauce, I wanted to incorporate guava somehow. I also didn’t want it to be just sweet and one dimensional, so I added chipotle peppers for some heat. I am a huge …
Poutine is a dish with ties to Quebec, Canada. I had my doubts when i heard of crispy fries underneath a layer of gravy. I was a little hesitant to try this Canadian raved about dish but curiosity got the best of me. I have to say some places get poutine right and I thought …
This recipe shouldn’t really exist in the sense that it requires little to no time and really a few instructions. As a matter of fact it requires one ingredient which is fried and that is plantains. The tricky part is making sure you have the right ripeness which we will get to later on. As …
I remember being introduced to limoncello years ago by my fiancee’s step dad. It definitely had a good punch to it but it quickly grew on me. I found a way to take this after dinner treat and incorporate it into these limoncello ricotta pancakes. The limoncello is added into the batter mix which cooks …
Every now and then I crave fried chicken but don’t care the unhealthiness that comes with frying. Oven frying is healthier and you can get it crispy if you do it right. This recipe uses crumbled Trader Joe’s Cornbread crisps as the breading. It is baked and then drizzled with hot honey for that sweet, …
