Strawberries in Grand Marnier are one of the simplest desserts – but the simplest things are often the most wonderful of all. It’s as easy as choosing beautiful, local berries, and quickly marinating them.
Pineapple Upside-Down Cornmeal Masa Cake
This recipe for fresh Pineapple Upside-Down Cornmeal Masa Cake with jalapenos and roasted red peppers in a cast-iron skillet will knock your socks off.
Orange Blossom Champagne Cocktail
Orange Blossom Champagne Cocktail: like a mimosa, but liqueurier
Dark Chocolate, Burnt Orange Cake. Plus, a discussion of magic strips.
Part 2: last week’s chocolate-orange fantasy continues. In this post, you’ll learn how to put this four-layer, ganache-drenched, silk buttercream-filled, Dark Chocolate, Burnt Orange Cake together.
Burnt Orange Silk Meringue Buttercream
Part 1: What is a Burnt Orange Silk Meringue Buttercream? A caramel crème Anglaise and an Italian merengue, beat together with butter and orange. Surprisingly few ingredients, considering what you turn them into: a creamy and impressive frosting and cake filling with a muted but unmistakable orange flavor.
Masa Cornbread
This Masa Cornbread is made with corn flour as well as cornmeal (and it’s got kernels of corn, to boot). It’s a very moist, almost custardy cornbread.
Gluten-Free Taco Night
Gluten-Free Taco Night with steak tacos, homemade corn tortillas and homemade refried beans, plus blackberry margarita punch (tequila, cassis, ginger beer)
Leftover Lemon Juice? Lemonade Concentrate!
Use leftover lemon juice to make a homemade lemonade concentrate, and then use that to mix with gin, vodka, cherries, or God knows what. You can make easy, simple, and quick cocktails or soft drinks. Dark, rainy, and cold outside? Freeze it until the sun comes out.
Topolabampo Review: Our New Favorite Restaurant
Topolabampo Review: a seven-course tasting menu with wine pairings from our favorite Mexican restaurant in Chicago? No, our favorite restaurant, period.