This simple and easy recipe for oven-baked Salmon in Brie-and-Bacon Sauce with Asparagus and Crispy Potatoes is perfect for someone who has little experience with fish.
Entertaining
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Coconut Babka? Happy Easter!
Give your Polish Easter sweet bread a tropical spin: Coconut Babka is a yeast-risen, quasi-cake-like bread, flavored with coconut and coconut milk.
How to Cook Pierogi
Pierogi may not be easy to make, but they’re easy to cook. They can be served simply boiled once or twice, or fried – perhaps after having been breaded with bread crumbs or crackers. Although they reheat fantastically, they do not take to that greatest reheating mechanism of all time: the microwave. If you want to eat pierogi like a true Pole, serve them with sour cream.
Coffee-Crusted Pork Roast: Dinner for Six
Check out our recipe for Coffee-Crusted Pork Roast with orange-cardamom jus, accompanied by caramelized Brussels sprouts and braised red cabbage.
Feta-Spinach Stuffed French Bread
We put this Feta-Stuffed French Bread recipe to the test. The question: could salami, cream cheese, soup mix, sour cream, and feta, make us want to eat our spinach? The answer: yes.
Figs with Mascarpone
Sure, you made it past Christmas, but what are you going to do about New Years? This. The flavor of this fig-and-mascarpone appetizer is delicious, but the texture is equally interesting. It’s not at all difficult, but it is a time consuming recipe. Still, it’s best to make it day-of … well in advance.
Christmas Dinner for Six
Who doesn’t love a Christmas Lasagna! Pop it into a multi-course lineup that includes a savory cheesecake, Opah, salad, butterflake rolls, and chocolate stout cake and you’ve got an epic celebration.
Margaritas Congeladas de Danilo
(Dan’s Frozen Margaritas)
Margaritas Congeladas de Danilo, (Dan’s Frozen Margaritas) uses a homemade sour mix made from freshly squeezed lemon and lime juice. A really good tequila is important, but I think it’s the Cointreau that kicks this recipe into “world’s best” league. A great blender will whip this into a fabulous frozen cocktail with minimal effort.
Pork Tenderloin with Cider Reduction
It’s fall, and I’m thinking of apples. How about a pork tenderloin with a cider reduction? Along side it, white asparagus, and a potato/celery-root/cauliflower mash. For dessert, apple crisp. Now that’s dinner!