Shredded corned beef and pickled cabbage tucked into a rye butter crust with horseradish mustard sauce. Salty corned beef and punchy pickled cabbage baked in a dark rye crust and served with a creamy grain-mustard dipping sauce. The dough for this recipe is a simple pie dough made with dark rye flour and all-purpose flour. […]
Category: Snack
Irish Coffee Cake
Chocolate Guinness cake, with Jameson ganache, and Bailey’s buttercream. Rich chocolate cake infused with Guinness and espresso powder, soaked with Jameson, and layered with Jameson ganache and Bailey’s buttercream frosting, it’s boozy and delicious! This recipe requires three different alcoholic beverages, which can be expensive, especially if you only buy them to make this cake. […]
Thai-Style Green Bean Slaw
Red cabbage and green bean slaw with a Thai peanut coconut dressing. This salad has crisp veggies, sprouts, fresh herbs, and crunchy peanuts mixed with a Thai-style dressing flavored with ground peanuts, lemongrass, lime juice, and coconut milk. In the recipe instructions below, the red cabbage gets soaked in cold water for 5-10 minutes. This […]
Blackened Ahi Tostada
Blackened ahi tuna, avocado corn salsa, cabbage, and smoky crema on a crisp corn tortilla. This is a light, tasty meal with lots of fresh ingredients, including some beautiful ahi tuna that I got from a local fisherman. I realize that you may not have access to ahi straight out of the ocean, but that […]
Gingerbread Bundt Cake
Pumpkin cream cheese-filled gingerbread bundt cake. This recipe is a molasses-y spiced cake wrapped around a slightly sweet pumpkin filling. This cake is fairly simple to make and has a generous amount of filling. But like any bundt cake, the challenge lies with getting it cleanly out of the pan. To aid this, I use […]
Raspberry Pinwheel Cookies
Cream cheese, almond cookie dough spiraled around seedless raspberry jam. These are simple cookies with simple flavors, but the rolling and shaping process can get a bit tedious. There is a lot of in and out of the freezer/refrigerator, and the jam can become a sticky mess. Just be patient and remember that as long […]