For a snack that’s honestly pretty expensive, granola is easy to make. It just takes some time to bake but you can mix and match the basic flavors, dried fruits and nuts to make your own mix. This one is vaguely apple pie flavored. There is no real backstory behind this recipe besides the Vermonty…
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Super Bowl Sugar Cookies
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…
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…
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…
Salmon en Croute with Asparagus
Serves 2 This salmon recipe takes my dad’s methods for cooking and serving salmon with Tom Douglas’s salmon rub and his own genius sauce (trust me, you’ll start making salmon just as a vessel for the sauce) and wraps it all up in one package. If you make the asparagus side with this, it becomes…
Wasabi Dinner Rolls
Servings: 16 rolls This wasabi and nori flavored bread was inspired by bread that I had with seaweed and some kind of fancy butter at The Pass & Provisions. Unfortunately The Pass & Provisions closed in 2019 but now I can have the bread all the time. Making bread is notoriously finicky, and while I’ve…
Savory Pumpkin Bread
Servings: 2 loaves It’s fall, so it’s time for pumpkin everything! Even here in Houston where that means lots of iced pumpkin lattes instead of hot… This recipe is a fun twist on the standard pumpkin bread. It’s made savory by the addition of caramelized onions and garlic and some more savory spices, but it…
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