“OMG, it actually has layers in it!”, my friend exclaimed when I served up this lasagna for lunch today. YES, this does! Have you seen one-pot lasagnas floating around on the internet? I think Martha Stewart started the craze. Here’s the thing though. I am yet to see a “one pot” lasagna that actually looks like a lasagna. None of the ones I have seen actually have layers. They are more like a pasta bake with a delicious mess of broken up lasagna sheets mixed up with the filling and sauce....

It’s a delicious and seemingly fancy restaurant-level dish that is in fact very easy to prepare, making it the ideal choice for a weeknight dinner. Salmon is a huge favorite of mine. It’s wonderfully fatty and so very flavorful. I usually prefer it to mild white fish, although this baked cod is excellent too. In this easy recipe, perfect for a weeknight dinner, the butter and sage impart wonderful flavors to the already-delicious fish....

For this recipe, I brine the pork chops and elevate a few pantry ingredients from basic to brilliant. Whisk sweet peach preserves, pungent Dijon mustard, rosemary, and sage for a bright, herbaceous, sweet, and tangy sauce that is spread over the pork chops. A grill pan or a skillet is all you need for this simple Southern-inspired supper. What Cut of Pork Should I Buy? For this recipe, get bone-in center-cut rib pork chops because they are less likely to dry out....

So tell me, are you in the ‘I can’t eat chocolate for breakfast’ camp? Or are you in my camp? I’m not talking about a 1kg bar of Dairy Milk with my morning coffee (but who am I kidding here, I would so eat that for breakfast if someone put it in front of me). I’m talking about a little bit of dark chocolate, mixed into an oaty, peanut-ty cookie....

Pan Options for Homemade French Bread: If you don’t have a French bread pan, you can always use a regular baking sheet. Just be sure to give your loaves enough space in between them so that they don’t end up connected.If you come to love homemade french bread, I highly recommend investing in a french bread pan. It is perforated (has a lot of holes) which allows for even heat circulation....

I have found that the single thing that makes the biggest difference for making perfect creamy, heavenly potatoes is the type of potatoes you use. Yukon Golds Make the Best Mashed Potatoes Most people use starchy Russets for mashed potatoes. With their high starch and low water content, they’re good for baking, for making French fries, and for mashing. Here’s my secret though—even better than Russets for mashing are Yukon Golds....

Kulfi is a South Asian frozen dessert traditionally made from a base of slow-cooked sweet milk and spices reduced into a thick liquid. Tres leches cake is a moist milk-soaked sponge cake of Latin American origin (though the exact origin is often debated!). A Tres Leches Cake Inspired By Kulfi Given their similarities, I thought it would be fitting to create a tres leches cake using typical Indian spices and flavors from kulfi....

I love that it’s socially acceptable to eat cake at 10:30am and call it brunch. It makes my cake addiction almost sound posh 🙂 If you don’t eat it all at once, you’ll have enough left for afternoon tea too. Double posh! As a blogger and freelancer, I often find I have boundaries to work within - whether it’s a pasta recipe for a brand, an easy picnic recipe for a website or a seasonal recipe for Kitchen Sanctuary (usually start on these at least a couple of weeks before the season starts)....

Then you add some white wine and brown sugar, and cook the chicken in its marinade. It’s great with our Spanish rice! The recipe comes from one my mother clipped decades ago from the Sacramento Bee.

Picnics are a family favorite of ours. Spring, Summer, Fall, we like picnicking during them all! Pressed sandwiches are a perfect picnic item. They are also great for serving at luncheons, and baby/bridal showers. They are easy to put together and require making ahead so it is the perfect party and picnic food. This particular sandwich is bursting with flavor. I used a walnut pesto spread because I enjoy the flavor and slight crunch of the walnuts as opposed to the more traditional pine nuts....

So I may have been slightly drunk when I took these photos. Just being honest here….. A hot sunny day, the BBQ was out and I was testing out those prosecco popsicles and photographing (aka sampling) a Dark & Stormy or two. In my slightly tiddly (at that point) state, I decided it would be a great idea to mix the leftover prosecco with the spicy ginger beer from the cocktail....

I am the quesadilla queen! (At least in my own mind, having held that title since college where I regularly cooked up massive quesadillas on burrito sized tortillas with tons of add-ins for myself and friends.) So when a friend recently mentioned the idea of a quesadilla pie, I didn’t even wait for the recipe, I knew what to do. The two basic ingredients of a quesadilla are cheese (queso is cheese in Spanish) and tortillas, either flour or corn, though usually in the U....

I never did get her recipe, but I love rabbit, and love mushrooms, so here is my take on a dish I imagine Chef Crenn might like. This dish celebrates the onset of cooler weather. The combination of rabbit (you can easily substitute chicken if you are unable to find rabbit) mushrooms, butter, stock, and roasted garlic are as wonderful as that first crisp day when leaves are falling, schools are back in session, and football is on the TV....

This is a reader-favourite recipe included by popular demand in my debut cookbook “Dinner”! My Swiss Army knife of Stir Fry Sauces! Restaurant Secret: you know when you go to a packed Asian restaurant or take out during lunch hour and you’re handed a plate of fresh-out-of-the-wok stir fry 5 minutes after ordering? I hate to disappoint you, but the cooks standing over the flames aren’t throwing together 10 ingredient sauce mixes for every single dish……....

Now available: the Slow Cooker version of this recipe with a Garlic Butter Gravy! Roast turkey breast The phrase “This side dish recipe is so good, it will steal the show!” is thrown around all too much, and I’m guilty of it myself. But for those of you responsible for the main event – here is a turkey against which no side, no matter how epic, stands a chance. That herby garlic butter…....

Sweet potato is probably my most underused vegetable, and I have no idea why. It has superfood status, it’s packed with nutrition and it’s a potato. Carb Monster, right here. Potato Girl. Yet to meet a form of potato – sweet or regular – that I don’t love. That’s going to change in the coming months. I actually love sweet potato, it’s just never made my weekly shopping basket. Nowadays, I always have it and I’ve been making some great quick meals using sweet potato rather than regular ones....

What is Salara? Salara (also known as red roll, coconut roll, or red bread) is one of the most popular breads of Guyanese cuisine. A soft, but slightly dense bread dough is rolled up with a sweetened and spiced coconut filling, then baked until golden brown. The coconut is colored using red food coloring for a vibrant feel. It is the visual hallmark of the dough. Many Guyanese people would even say Salara isn’t Salara if the coconut isn’t red!...

Thankfully for mom and dad, the arrangement goes both ways. They stopped by the other day when we had just finished up cooking this salmon chowder, and happily packed half of it to take home with them. The verdict the next day? Raves. It’s rich, smoky, and comforting. It’s our left coast answer to New England’s clam chowder. Enjoy! Cook until lightly browned and the fat mostly rendered out of the bacon, about 5 to 6 minutes....