Why Make Cauliflower Lasagna? Listen, I don't hate carbohydrates at all. I'm actually a big fan. But I tend to overeat when I have a lot of carbs. I could totally down half a pound of creamy pasta all by myself. So sometimes, rather than eating all those carbs at one time, I sub cauliflower rice, a cauliflower pizza crust, and now, I've added these cauliflower "noodles" to repertoire of lower carb swaps. One cool thing about making cauliflower noodles is I can add whatever flavor I want ... continue reading...
Crispy, Crunchy, Homemade Butterfinger Recipe
Recipe Testing to Get It Right I am Extremely Excited, stoked even (and I never use that word), to bring you this crispy Butterfinger recipe, you guys. This is my most tested recipe ever. I submit I have developed a homemade copycat for Butterfinger candy bars that is as close to the factory-produced kind as I can get while using my regular kitchen equipment. Nine times. That's the number of times it took me to get these Butterfingers just right. I made some with a sugar syrup. I ... continue reading...
Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream with Graham Cracker Crumble
What Is So Great About This Recipe? For fruit lovers and for cheesecake lovers, this might be the best ice cream ever. Strawberry and lime and perfect flavor partners, and they play together beautifully in this ice cream. And there's a full block of cream cheese in the base, plus egg, making it a cheesecake custard base. Which is kind of awesome. Here's why you'll love this ice cream: Scoopable straight from the freezer: the combination of all the cream cheese plus cornstarch in ... continue reading...
The Best Chocolate Syrup | Rich Chocolate Sauce
Why This Sauce? What Makes It So Good? Even though chocolate syrup is really easy to make, the success (or failure) is really about balancing the sweetness with the chocolatey-ness. Many recipes call for what I think is way too much cocoa, leading to a slightly bitter and too-thick syrup. Other recipes try to reduce the sugar, but that also yields a bitter sauce that might be okay over ice cream but is too bitter to make a good chocolate milk. Here's what's great about my chocolate ... continue reading...
Vinegar Pie, or Good Lord I Need Pie! What’s in the Pantry?
Pies in Time of Desperation Sometimes, you just need something sweet. Something simple to throw together with a few pantry staples, something soul-satisfying and made with love. Sometimes you just need pie. These days, most Americans are very fortunate to have ingredients handy to make fruit pies or chocolate pies whenever we feel like it, but back in the days before refrigeration, before huge supermarkets with all their bounty from all over the world, our pie-loving forebears had to be ... continue reading...