How to Make Homemade Flour Tortillas: a flexible, recipe that steps you through traditional (water and shortening) to deluxe (milk and bacon fat). Rated E-I for Easy-Ish (requires brief rolling pin use).
easy-ish
This is a simplified or easier version of something that would otherwise be more complex. Either that, or it is an moderately easy recipe that requires you to have or to be willing to develop one or two basic skills.
Classic Lemon Buttercream Frosting
Classic Lemon Buttercream Frosting gets its smooth, citrusy tang from both lemon juice and lemon extract. It’s a French buttercream, which means its sweetened with a hot syrup that’s beaten into egg yolks, and then blended with butter. Easy-ish recipe (“-ish” because it requires a candy thermometer, and I know that scares some people).
BBQ Pork Roast & Baker Potatoes
Fire up your charcoal grill for this BBQ Pork Roast & Baker Potatoes recipe. A tender, juicy roast with an absolutely luscious gratin.
Tomato Corn Salad (with bacon)
Tomato Corn Salad! Heirloom tomatoes, raw corn, tangy feta, peppery arugula, smoky bacon, crunchy almonds … love your vegetables! (Easy-ish recipe.)
Homemade Hard Salami Pull-Apart Rolls
These homemade Hard Salami Pull-Apart Rolls are made from an easy-ish, yeast-risen bread dough. They’re full of Parmesan cheese and garlic. Pair them up with a bowl of chili, or use them to make some killer sliders.
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.
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.
Peanut Butter Banana Pudding
This homey, comfort-foody Peanut Butter Banana Pudding is layered with vanilla wafers. From-scratch pudding makes it luscious and is worth the small, extra effort.
Powder-Milk Stove Top Mac & Cheese with Bacon and Beer
This homemade stovetop macaroni and cheese recipe uses a cheese sauce that’s made from powdered milk, cheese, and beer. Two of these items you probably have in your possession. The third, if you simply stocked it, would always be at the ready and would be very handy in a bomb shelter.