Every year for the Super Bowl we theme our food options to the two teams that are playing. There has been Philly Cheesesteak Queso, Lobster Roll Dip, Dumplings (San Francisco), and many years of Kansas City Ribs. While I’m happy to not be having Kansas City Ribs for the third year in a row, the…
Author: beccaosuna
Ube Hibiscus Creme Brûlée
Getting married and planning a honeymoon in the age of COVID has been a very exciting adventure that has now spanned years. Our original plan for an international trip ended up getting nixed because we felt like the situation was too fluid, and imagine flying to another and then having to spend the entire two…
Banana Nut Scones
A couple weeks ago a friend and I stopped by Common Bond so she could get one of the healthy-ish scones, but it was late afternoon and they were completely out of all of their scones. Of course she was devastated, almost inconsolable, so I put together this recipe for not really healthy scones but…
Sweet Corn Ice Cream
I was first introduced to the idea of corn in dessert in a corn custard recipe in Deborah Madison’s cookbook, Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America’s Farmers’ Markets (my absolute favorite cookbook). It seems like a weird concept at first because we’re so trained to think of corn as part of a summer grilled…
Greek Bread Braid
This is a great, lightly sweet, soft bread with a nice depth of flavor from the whole wheat or rye flour. The plaiting also looks very impressive even if it is only two or three strands. I’m sure you could do more strands and get crazy with it but the original recipe works well with…
Bay Scallops in Garlic Butter
This concept is 100% perfect, the only things I ended up changing here were ratios and the order of adding ingredients. Serve it with any crusty bread on a build your own crostini platter. Most recently I used Greek Braid Bread, but I’ve used sourdough and french baguettes too. I’ve been accompanying it with a…
Sesame Lemon Bars
I meant to post this recipe a long time ago, I finalized it and made what was supposed to be the photographed version at the height of citrus season when everyone pulled off their citrus fruits before the big Houston freeze. It was going to be a nice treat for our friends that had lost…
Gochujang Short Ribs
After some unfortunately warm weather in Houston we finally got back down to the 40’s overnight this week, which made it the perfect time for some long slow cooking. In a fortunate coincidence, short ribs were on special at HMART! This recipe served 5 people comfortably, with enough leftovers for lunch for two. If you…
Banana Bread
There’s not much adjustment that needs to be made with a banana bread recipe. I think every time I want to make banana bread I use a different recipe and I’ve never had a bad experience but this is an opportunity to have one banana bread recipe in one place. I don’t usually put walnuts…
Lemon Blueberry Pudding Cake
Compared to a lot of the recipes in the box, this one is actually pretty clear. It’s the perfect time to try it since right now the lemon trees in Houston are at the stage where everyone has too many lemons to handle. I’m actually a bit bummed that it only calls for one lemon…
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