A recipe blog of favorites
I’m long overdue to share my favorite Barbecue Spice Rub with you. It’s salty, peppery, and slightly sweet. If you’re vinegar-averse, this is for you!! I’ve loved it ever since I first made it 8 years ago, when I started this blog with my 365 …
It’s been longer than I’d like to admit since I last posted a recipe here. I haven’t stopped cooking. It’s simply that I hadn’t made much until December that I had to write about, and we all know how busy December can be. To motivate …
To get back into ice cream making, I decided to make Aztec Hot Chocolate Ice Cream from The Perfect Scoop. It sounded rich and complex, very chocolate – something I’d love. Did this ice cream live up to my expectations of it? Well, yes and …
My friend Jill made Mexican Hot-Chocolate Cookies as part of a December cookie bake-off, and they sounded great. I had to try them. The cookies are basically chocolate snickerdoodles with cayenne mixed into the cinnamon sugar that coats the outside. This was a pretty straightforward …
I made Mexican Chicken-Hominy Soup for dinner last night. It was pretty easy to make. You can see the specific ingredients at the link above, but the recipe included chicken (which I’d cooked earlier in the week), broth, onion, jalapeno, garlic, and hominy. I garnished …
For dinner one night, I made Spicy Honey-Brushed Chicken Thighs. This was a very simple and fast recipe to make. You make a spice mixture of garlic powder, chili powder, salt, cumin, paprika, and ground red pepper. Coat boneless chicken thighs with it, and broil …
I tried Calabacitas, another recipe I could make with my zucchini. This was a very simple recipe. I used 4 cups of diced zucchini rather than half zucchini and half summer squash, and one diced poblano. This was very fast and easy to make. We …
I was on an Chinese food kick, so I made Spicy Orange Chicken, even though I’d made Asian food earlier in the week. This was easy to make. I made this a while ago, and I’m trying to remember if there was anything notable that …