Creamy date caramel sandwiched between brown butter oat pecan cookies. Richly sweet toasted oat and pecan cookies with creamy bourbon date caramel. The idea for these cookies started out as being a “healthy” cookie with low sugar and low gluten. But like so much of my cooking, they ended up being the opposite. What can […]
Blackened pork butt and tender butter beans braised in a bourbon tomato broth. Served with buttermilk corn muffins. When I think of pork and beans, I think about cans of small beans with a weird half gelatinous-half liquid sauce and what looks like small pieces of pork belly. Not the most enticing meal for sure! […]
Bourbon chocolate cake, cherry bourbon filling, chocolate ganache, and fresh cherries. Indulge in this rich chocolate cake with its sweet dark cherry filling, creamy chocolate ganache, and bright, fresh cherry garnish. A delicious way to start the new year! Ganache First layer with the filling Cake with ganache This cake has a spreadable chocolate ganache […]
Creamy egg custard with freshly ground nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla, and a splash of spiced rum. I never liked eggnog growing up. Only ever trying store-bought. For years and years, I thumbed my nose at it. Then a friend of mine made me some homemade eggnog. I was skeptical, but I tried it. I was oh […]
Confit duck on a bed of baby spinach with persimmons, pomegranate, maple pecans, duck cracklins, goat cheese, and bourbon mustard vinaigrette. Well, this is it, the last post in this week’s series on duck. I decided to do this series because I feel that duck is something people rarely cook at home. Some of this […]
Shaved kabocha pumpkin, gala apples, and brussels sprouts, with black pepper honey pumpkin seeds, bourbon macerated craisins and orange dressing. The majority of people probably aren’t used to eating raw pumpkin. It is a hard, starchy fruit that most often requires boiling or baking. But when shaved, shredded, or spiralized, the pumpkin’s texture becomes crisp […]
