Gluten-Free Almond Cake with Honey-Lemon Glaze
I'm sure you know someone who's avoiding gluten and you are maybe a little bit sad for them about all of the gluten-filled treats they're missing. And maybe your friend has a birthday and maybe you're especially sad that they can't have birthday cake. Weep no more....
Cook’s Illustrated: Glazed Maple-Pecan Oatmeal Scones
Readers, I have to disabuse of something right now: living at my house is not like an endless and much less disturbing visit to the Wonka factory. Yes, wonderful things are made regularly BUT, more often than not, they are carried out the door to work or a party or...
The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook: Heart-Stuffed Shells with Lemon Ricotta Bechamel
Sometimes I can't believe how sexy my food looks. Damn, I'm good. And so were these. You know what they kind of tasted like? That artichoke-mayonnaise dip that everybody made for every party from 1997 through late 2000, remember that stuff? It also had parmesan cheese...
Cook’s Country: Cheese Frenchees
(Photo by Cook's Country/America's Test Kitchen) At this time I'm going to have ask Michelle Obama to leave this page and, maybe, go look at amazing pictures of herself. 'Cause she's not going to like this. At all. Because this post is about a dish so sinful...
The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook: Pancetta, White Bean, and Swiss Chard Pot Pies
This is going to sound disingenuous given the picture above but I am not the kind of woman who puts hearts on things. Smiley faces, ok, yes, occasionally. Not hearts though. No judgments. But something about these cute little pot pies charmed me into unusually giddy...
The Cook’s Illustrated Cookbook: Roasted Smashed Potatoes
As promised, these potatoes deliver both the fluffy interior of a baked potato and the crispy exterior of a french fry (without the deep frying). They are absolutely heavenly and will you will forget any weirdness you felt when crushing potatoes between two sheet...
Girl in the Kitchen: Asparagus Linguine with Almond Butter Crisp
This would be a fairly straightforward pasta dish -- asparagus, baby arugula and olive oil -- before you add the almond butter crisp. And please, take a moment to fully absorb that that concept: Almond. Butter. Crisp. It's nuts and butter and bread crumbs and...