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: a seven-course tasting menu with wine pairings from our favorite Mexican restaurant in Chicago? No, our favorite restaurant, period.
This homemade and hearty Spinach Soup is packed with (leftover) vegetables (such as Brussels sprouts, carrots, cauliflower, and potatoes). It’s comfort food for the veg-friendly.
Chocolate-Covered Banana Cheesecake Layer Cake: three layers of fudgy, bittersweet chocolate ganache, two layers of moist, delicious banana cake, one layer of a luscious, New-York-style (cream cheese and sour cream) banana cheesecake
Wildly Outstanding Salted Chocolate Chunk Shortbread Cookies. What more can you say than that?
Phenomenal Polish Smoked Sausage Soup, properly called “White Borscht,” is a kielbasa soup, heavy with root vegetables (including potatoes, but not beets), mushrooms, and topped off with a dollop of sour cream (and perhaps a hard-boiled (Easter) egg). Great recipe. Reheats well.
I’m not sure I’m doing you any favors by introducing you to this Blue Cheese, Leek, and Mushroom Pasta Bake. You may not be able to stop eating it.
Treat your guests to a whiskey-glazed Beef Tenderloin dinner for four. In addition to the main-course roast, this menu includes cocktails, roasted vegetables, and a spice cake with apples and brandied cherries.
This Blue Cheese, Pear, and Honey Tartine has bacon in it, but I didn’t want to advertise that fact in the name, because I feared I might start a riot.
