The Feeling Sad Sandwich
For the days when you just feel sad. It's the kind of sandwich that says, 'It's going to be okay.'
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Lord Leopold Casserole
Beef Wellington is one of my favorite foods ever. Fancy enough for a holiday, but it's a great grown-up casserole.
Blue Pudding
Born out of a red velvet cake mistake, this pudding contains no cake at all. Just blueberries. And a layer of butter.
Sweet & Sexy Shrimp
Garlic butter shrimp with white wine and lemon. Its sweet and sexy nickname comes from the mangoes, which are elsewhere.
No Parchment No Cry
A no-bake Neapolitan cake that is baked, on parchment, with seven kinds of mini chips.
Mulled Mead
A warm spiced honey wine with brandy, fruit, and peppercorns. Make your own mead first; it's not difficult.
Salted Cranberry Cookies
My own spin on the salted caramel cookie trend. Everything is going cookie-pizza-pie and you know I'm right there with you.
Meatloaf Drumsticks
Meatloaf, but with breadcrumbs on it. Who would have thought?! Baked in a 9x13 dish inside a pot of boiling water.
Hummus And Brie Surprise
Hummus with crumbled brie and feta blended right in. The surprise is that there is cheese in your hummus.
Oxtail Ice Cream
I’m not sure why it took me so long to make ice cream with oxtail. I’m sure I’ll be doing it again.
Muffdiver Mufaletta
My first mufaletta, after years of driving right past them. Really, it's just like a sub.
Macerated Carrot Salad
I'm generally not a carrot salad eater, but I love it so much that I felt guilty. My requirements were strict.
Marion Berry's Berry Pancakes
A morning people family who likes to sleep in, and the berry pancakes that let us #treatyoself.
Denis's Canned Chicken Wonton Soup
Store-bought chicken wonton soup, improved with more chicken, frozen corn and half a teaspoon of soy sauce. Denis would be proud.
Rosemary Poached Eggs
Oh, Rosemary. I love you. Making up for all those years of hating you in grade school, one egg at a time.
Cheesy Crumbly Carnivorous
An updated take on our family's old-school holiday cheesy potatoes. Cheesy, crumbly, and carnivorous.
Paprika Beet Dip
I love beets, but only in small amounts. I'm not going to sit down and eat a whole plate of them.
Falafel Spritz
Not a fan of falafel, so I made one with nineteen kinds of dried beans. It's the yogurt, lime and herbs. There are none.
Stinky Tofu Sushi
Missed the boat on Stinky Tofu for Christmas? Marinate it in sushi vinegar and roll it up in nori instead.
Kung Fu Pasta
Fast, healthy kung fu cooking, inspired by the P.F. Chang’s in Manhattan out in the Mall of America.
Sweet Potato Chickpeas Stew
A hearty vegan meal in a bowl that you can also make with chickpeas. Under 30 minutes, including the chopping.
Chidike's West African Doro Wat
Comfort food at its finest, which you'll want to make for your family every week, but only if you want to lose weight.
Chapped Chapatis
Chapatis, made thicker this time, so they are thin and light and airy and also a long tortilla.
Blueberry Corn Smut Compote
Blueberries simmered with huitlacoche into a sweet compote for your pancakes. An heirloom from my Mom, sort of.
Mint Chocolate Crepes
I’m not a fan of crepes. At all. So I made these, and now they’re my new favorite crepe.
Plum Mole Enchiladas
I'd never made mole before, and I'm not sure I ever will again, but I will never forget these enchiladas.
Fungi Meat Spread
Inspired by a mushroom meatball an ex-boyfriend once served me. I had eaten the entire thing before I knew it.
Tempura Fruit
Fruit, dipped in batter and deep fried, for the host who wants to see the look on everyone's face.
Serrano Chili Serrano Ham Stuffed Peppers
Stuffed peppers with four cheeses, three bell peppers and a half cup of garlic, from the only vegetarian in the family.
Vegetarian Pea Gravy
A quick vegetarian gravy, which is also vegan, made with butter, milk, and heavy cream. And every dried herb.
Breathtaking Puff Puff Pastries
Pastries so breathtaking you'll need to sit down. Then stand up. Then sit down again.
Thoughtful Friend Fudge
The ultimate gift for your vegan friends. Or any friends that you love, really.
French Forced Foal
A classic French bistro beef stew, invented under duress, which is somehow a batch of almond cinnamon sugar cookies.
Lamb Loaf
A lamb meatloaf with fourteen dried herbs, ketchup and honey, all poured into a pan at once. The name is the only bad thing about it.
Dinner For One
A heartfelt thank-you note for a box of gifts, followed by cheesy rice with peas and corn. For one.
Pepper Jelly Artichoke Casserole
Pepper jelly is a thing of beauty. Artichokes are very good looking. Together, they are a casserole.
Romanian Beef Tubes
A party hit from my country of origin. I call them tubes, but the authentic name is in fact "calzone".
Borscht Bieterballen
Belgian meatballs, a Dutch take on a German dish, made with beetroot and no meat. One bite and you're like, WOW.
Peppered Pickles
Fridge pickles with black pepper, red pepper, cloves and cardamom. Approved by a man who finds everything gross.
The "I Don't Cook" Easy Homemade Dinner
A weeknight dinner from someone whose food skills peak at microwave popcorn. Opposable thumbs required.
Recycled Leftover Casserole
Leftovers, recycled. SO good, SO easy, and SO a no-brainer for your next big family dinner. A total game-changer.
Queef Queso
A quick, creamy, super cheesy queso that turned out perfect the first time. No tweaking required.
Bacon In A Blanket
For people who don't like bacon but have to be polite about it at parties. Keep a pack in the freezer.
Sour Cherry Potstickers
Pork, beef, cinnamon and dried sour cherries folded into potstickers by a self-described potsticker hater.
Smith & Wesson Shrimp
Basically a shrimp cocktail, but better. Also, it is cooked in butter and served over pasta.
Chili Babies
You will be served chili at every Christmas party. These are the babies. My daughter had three helpings in a row.
Mushroom Marshmello Smores
A campfire classic. My husband and I have been known to eat at least 8 in one sitting. I'm not even kidding.
Dragon's Milk Cupcakes
A classic Russian dessert, Dragon's Milk, reimagined as chocolate chip cupcakes, for health reasons.
Regular Cookies
Cookies with chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, white chocolate chips and nuts. Completely regular. Nothing to see here.
Two Legged Butter Churner
Named for my great-grandmother, who churned butter standing up, on both legs, every single day.
Cinnamon Swirl Slushy
Sweet, cinnamon swirled frozen goodness in no time. Also contains four juices and three fruits.
Vegan Beefsteak
A cat, a bag of almonds, and a diet that went wrong. Also, a tomato with vegan mayo on it.
Orange Pear Creme Brulee
A crème brûlée baked in a 9x13 pan, caramelized three separate times. I'm going to make it for the holidays, just not this month.
Cherry Blossom Muffins
Light, soft muffins with a surprise inside. I won’t tell you what it is. These muffins are the bomb.com.
Saffron Rabbit Succotash
Rabbit is lean, tender, gamey in the best possible way, and very special to me. So is saffron.
Rupert's Fig & Venison Stew
Simple ingredients like venison, red wine, red currant jelly, and I think 2 other things. Simmers for 3 hours.
Vegan's Cry
A year-end reckoning, a quarter of the way through 2017, served with quinoa and an alarming amount of vegan parmesan.
Mezcal Peanut Butter Cocktail
Half a cup of peanut butter blended with mezcal and milk, from someone who rarely drinks and dislikes peanut butter.
Rhubarb Rubbed Filet Mignon
My second attempt at steak at home. I thought I could buy a whole cow for the price of this one steak.
Savory Swamp Chicken
My mother's old-school Swamp Chicken: the perfect blend of spicy, sweet, savory, and swamp.
The Other Frying Pan
A loving tribute to my favorite blog's banana chocolate chip muffins. Here is how to fry chicken tenders.
Blue Cheese Chicken Salad
Two days before Christmas, a woman makes chicken salad and thinks about cheese that has gone blue on purpose.
Freshly Pounded Poultry With Garlic Dipping Sauce
A whole roast chicken, which is never pounded, served with a garlic dipping sauce, which is never made. Perfect for Christmas.
Lazy Sunday Latkes
Grandma’s traditional latkes, found in a scrapbook and baked, not fried. Except you fry them.
Slutty Pig Knuckle
A friend gave me a Slutty Pig Knuckle for Christmas and I thought they were making fun of me. Turns out it's a Texas thing.
Lip Smackin Lamb Roast
A rich, hearty leg of lamb stuffed with herbs and warm spices and brushed with honey citrus glaze, over and over.
Beach Brownies
I went looking for a beach theme for these brownies and found nothing. They are brownies. Woo hoo!
Bilge Pump Burgers
Beef and pork burgers simmered in a sweet ketchup sauce with peppers and onions. The exception to my lifelong burger indifference.
Peach Covered Peaches
Peaches buried under a mountain of chips, nuts, and dried fruit, including more peaches. Dinner is served.
Sichuan Garlic Peeps
Spicy, aromatic, and up to par with the Sichuan food I had in China. Also, they are peeps.
Questionable Meat Melt
We had so much leftover ham we called it a question mark, because we were unsure of what we were eating.
Prosciutto Squacquerone Lasagna
A lasagna named after a cheese that is not in it, built from five cheeses that are.
Funyun Onion Casserole
The holiday casserole everyone told me they loved. Some of them may have been lying.
Shrimp And Grits Popsicles
Cheesy grits with mayonnaise, ketchup and eleven dried herbs, frozen on a stick. A way to have shrimp and grits any time of year.
Jorge's Hee Haw Sauce
Three years in the making and inspired by Beale Street. If you want it before Christmas, make it before December.
Cinnamon Lavender Toast
It's not even a recipe. It's crispy, crunchy, sweet, and makes the house smell like Christmas, even in July.
Grapefruit Garden Slurp
Grapefruit simmered in cream, sugar and butter, then pureed into something you slurp. Super refreshing. Like, whoa.
Pistachio Pork Pudding
A treasured family casserole of shredded pork, pistachios and eleven kinds of dried fruit, baked under a sweet cream sauce.
Strawberry Oregano Lemonade
Fresh, fruity lemonade where strawberries meet oregano, because strawberries going bad makes me sad.
Mildly Moist Cheesecake
Not the best cheesecake ever. That was last year. This one is fine, and mildly moist, and probably from the 70's.
Stinky Vegetarian Stew
A stew whose signature stink comes from sauerkraut, miso and nutritional yeast, none of which are in it.
Blue Java Banana Oreo Shake
A banana shake picky enough for the cafe menu, now with cold coffee, crushed cookies and blueberries.
Mix And Match Marzipan
Marzipan you can make with any nut, fruit or chocolate you want, using only almond flour and powdered sugar. Then you bake it.
Graham Cracker Yuzu Pie
A pie for people who say they don’t like pie. Which pie were you thinking of, exactly?
Frosted Popcorn
Plain popcorn can't hold its own in the dessert category. Frosted popcorn can. Movie night is saved.
Lemony Lime Bars
Is it a lemon bar or a lime bar? Yes. A Halloween post with nothing to do with Halloween.
Sweet! Potato Fries
Baked sweet potato fries from a savory gal who doesn't like sweet potatoes. Sweet!
The Oaxacan Standoff
Citrus-marinated pork shoulder versus roughly every vegetable and pepper in the produce aisle. Nobody blinks.
Paprika Crusader Pork
A sweet and spicy twist on an old classic that has seriously rocked my world. Pure genius, I tell you.
Freshly Bruised Peach Medley
Fresh, sweet, a little Southern, and a little bruised. The peaches have been through a lot, and so have I.
Mama's Milk Man
I love being a mama. I love photographing newborns. I love that. I also love that.
Sweaty Veal Chops
My husband's Italian grandma's veal chops, braised until they sweat. Some people would rather eat a cow.
The Bee Pollen Twerp
A berry smoothie with a quarter cup of bee pollen, named for a little man who puts pollen in your food. We love pollen in our food.
Frog In The Puddle
My son drew a frog in a puddle with blue water all over his room. This is a hot chocolate.
Chicken Tar Tar
Not tartare. Not tartar sauce. Tender chicken tar tar bites that were the talk of Christmas Eve.
Naughty Naked Nougat
Not a hard candy, a lollipop, a butterscotch or a taffy. It's all of those things. It's also a peanut butter brownie.
Eat Your Sins Charcuterie Board
I forgot my neighbor's Christmas gift, so I'm apologizing with cured meats marinated in red wine and fresh spices.
Japanese Brazilian Scramble
Eight eggs, sake, mirin, three bell peppers, ham, chicken, shrimp and crab, each sautéed for exactly 2 minutes.
Orange And Basil Bread
A sweet orange quick bread with a hint of basil that is kind of like a French bread, if you squint.
Six Onions Salsa
A very simple summer salsa for anyone who grew too many onions. Six, to be exact.
Lime Shrimp Sorbet
Bright, fresh, light: blend shrimp with lime juice and juice from a few limes, then freeze. That's it.
Beats To Beets
A cherry tomato cake with olives and cherry goat cheese frosting, which, in practice, is a pot of sweet-and-sour beets.
Ginger Habanero Curry
A spicy chickpea curry I'm a tad late with, posted in October to close out 2016. Bring it on, 2017.
Is It Worth It?
Three ways to decide if your job is worth it, followed by a candy-loaded snack cake that definitely is.
Cajun Pesto Etouffee
Cajun, Italian, and pesto walk into a New Orleans restaurant. It's one of my all time favorites.
Professor Soup's Natural Bean Remedy
Professor Soup prescribes twenty things soaked overnight, only some of which are beans. Not literally medicine, of course.
Pecan Souffle
A Christmas side dish that is not a casserole, but more of a pudding, and also a cake. Very light. Very fluffy.
Webay's Walnut Walleye
Walleye dipped in a walnut flour mixture, then dipped in the flour mixture again, per Webay. I was always a little scared of fish.
Apple Juniper Bread
A gluten free apple bread made with all-purpose flour and a full half cup of juniper berries.
Filthy Kale Chips
I didn't like kale chips the first time. These are filthy. Still not something I'd eat all the time.
Savory Sourdough Snack
The perfect mix of sour and savory, made with six kinds of dried fruit, three sugars and honey. No cooking, then bake.
Parrot & Pineapple Kabobs
Made for my daughter's luau party. The kids loved them. There is no parrot. The chicken is doing its best.
Banana Stuffed Grouper
Seared grouper smothered in a stuffing of four sliced bananas, mushrooms and parmesan. I love the bite of sea bass.
A Russian Baked Alaska
A cold, dramatic dessert that finally gives Alaska back, at least in cake form.
Instant Ramen Pho
My husband's gourmet meal of the week since college. It's not really a recipe, but it's pretty much gourmet.
Olive And Lobster Pate
A vegetarian's accidental tuna salad, which is actually an olive and lobster pate. I know what you're thinking.
Rosemary Orange Meyer Lemon Mocktail
All the flavor of a classic cocktail without the alcohol. Unless you add the vodka. The vodka is optional.
Wet Water
A yummy variation of watermelon soup that, upon inspection, is a pan of chocolate brownies. Hope you had a great Christmas.
Gorilla Bread
French bread, butter, and two kinds of sugar. My husband thought it was a cinnamon roll. It is just bread.
Buttery Bechamel Squash
I don't even like squash, but Megan makes this every Thanksgiving and it's too good to keep to yourself.
Full Midwest Breakfast
Four meats, hash browns, eggs and eleven dried herbs in one pan. Non-Midwesterners will stare, then secretly love it.
Truffle Treacle
Grandma's healthy three-ingredient Christmas pudding, which has nine ingredients, a cup of treacle, and is a cake.
Balout And Beastly Rawdog
Character profiles of a clumsy bunny and his loyal friend, followed by a two-ingredient recipe that is for your dog.
Decadent Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake
A chocolate peanut butter Bundt cake so good my husband saw a tear hit the plate.
Potato Jello
An old-school Christmas jello that nobody else seems to have heard of. It needs time to set up, so plan ahead.
The Trapped Smurf
A heartfelt story about reconnecting with my husband, featuring a chihuahua named Rupert and a laundry room.
The Devil's Dessert
Three ingredients, six hours in the fridge, zero New Year's resolutions left intact.
Muffins Under The Bridge
I heard a radio ad for a Muffin Man who eases all your aches and pains, tracked him down on Facebook, and made these.
Almond Chocolate Cinnamon Rolls
Soft, fluffy cinnamon rolls loaded with chocolate and almonds, baked as a single loaf because I’ve been on a roll.
3 Cakes In A Pot
A 3 layer cake in a crock pot that will wow your entire church potluck. It really works.
Hawaiian Enchiladas
Pineapple enchiladas glazed in butter, brown sugar and cinnamon, with three cheeses and two kinds of olives.
Gazpacho Soup Dumplings
Cold soup, folded into dumplings, then baked in a hot oven. Technically wrong. Let's just call them thick dumplings.
Juicy Jazz Brownies
Dense, fudgy brownies with four kinds of chips, after a million versions that were somehow never fudgy. Not juicy. Not jazz.
Whoopie Pie
Dense little cakes sandwiched with a peanut butter filling so good it could be fudge. Also known as a Black & White Cookie, apparently.
Don't Ladle My Soup
A creamy, satisfying soup for cold winter days, ready in 20 minutes. Whatever you do, do not ladle it.
Caramelized Onion Gazpacho
A cold soup, or possibly a smoothie, with caramelized onions and every bell pepper color. It will also make a big batch.
Dumpling Stuffed Perogies
Perogies, smothered in seven herbs and a cheddar cream sauce. My husband's new favorite. The dumplings are implied.
Sunset Mojitos
A party mojito made with three citrus juices and no honey, despite the honey being my favorite part. Serve over ice, or hot.
Pope Hat Hash
A fairly basic beef hash for hectic holiday mornings, named after a hat for reasons the recipe never explains.
Tom Brady's Cheat Meal
The Patriots won, the holidays are over, and it's finally time for a glorious non-holiday meal. Even the GOAT needs a night off.
Spaghetti Omelette Sandwich
My husband and I have 2 kids mainly so I would never have time for this sandwich. Now I have made it anyway.
Mack's Glazed Snot Burgers
Found in a baking cookbook, served at Christmas, eaten before anyone could take a picture. The glazed snot burger.
Beaujolais Remoulade
After 23 attempts at cole slaw on this blog alone, this is the one. Hands down. My husband's ethnic dish, perfected.
English Injera
Injera, but baked in a 9x13 pan with eleven spices, honey and every seed in the pantry. Cut into squares. Very English.
Elon's Eggplant Ravioli
Wonton-wrapper ravioli with a cheesy eggplant filling, discovered on Facebook and made with my eggplant.
Mustard Macaroni Soup
Mom's macaroni soup, improved with mustard because I love me some mustard. Also three kinds of pepper. Four, really.
Seaweed Strawberry Ice Cream
Who knew seaweed could be so amazing in strawberry ice cream? I did. It is a subtle background note.
Particularly Garlicky Chicken
I set out to make a garlic curry and made a lemon sauce instead. It contains four cloves of garlic and no lemon.
Cam’s Eggplant Delight
Roasted eggplant buried under every herb, nut, and seed Cam could find, because Cam doesn’t measure anything.
Lime In The Coconut
My favorite year-round cocktail, for people with a strict four-drink weekend limit. Summer only.
Wu Tang Clams
I have never actually had this meal, but I am sure it is the bomb dot com. Baked clams in garlic wine broth.
Smothered Chicken Soup
My mother-in-law's Christmas Eve soup, minus the wild rice, plus three bell peppers and six herbs. Don't tell Mike.
Green Eggs And Ham
A Dr. Seuss breakfast tribute that promises muffin-tin bites and then bakes everything in a 9x13 dish anyway.
Blackened Vanilla Cake
The perfect vanilla cake, with just the right amount of vanilla and a name that suggests a kitchen fire.
Dunning Krueger Bars
Ridiculously easy homemade candy bars. You'll be so impressed with yourself. Possibly too impressed.
Daddy’s Special Sauce
The family rib sauce that took me years to realize I knew how to make. It is mostly mayonnaise.
Briskets And Biscuits
Slow-cooker brisket laid on cheesy herb biscuits, because the oven and I are not on speaking terms.
Mangosteen Jam
A Filipino Christmas tradition I may have invented, made from my mother-in-law's mangosteens and exactly two ingredients.
Bar Mixvah (A Kosher Bar Mix)
A sweet-salty chocolate marshmallow bar mix, best served on a pretzel rod and dipped in guac.
Grandpa's Salty Nuts
A Christmas tree ornament you can eat, as long as you don't mind a little dust. A tradition for years to come.
Green Bean Cookies With Raspberry
For people who love green bean casserole so much they want it in cookie form, with raspberry jam on top.
Smoked Grapes
Three years of testing produced these smoky, sweet grapes, which are boiled, baked, blended and contain no smoke at all.
Fried Squirrel Cakes
Golden fried squirrel, served with syrup, which is somehow a great spin on pizza.
Sloppy Joe Waffles
Sloppy joe filling, two layers of cheese and green onions, pressed inside a waffle iron. Breakfast for dinner, but sloppier.