Cooking tip: Just because a recipe uses conventional ingredients doesn’t mean you are obligated to use them. Granted, substituting ingredients when baking a cake or bread doesn’t work out that well. There is some science-y stuff that happens with the leaveners like yeast and baking soda that can fail when you substitute. But making a…
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Mushroom Garlic Butter Empanadas
Making empanadas has a big secret – Buy the crusts at the super market. It might feel like you are somehow taking a cheap shortcut, or you are being less than authentic by not making your our dough, but I have spoken to women in Argentina, and they have given the world permission to just…
Lemon Pepper Roasted Chicken with Cilantro Garlic Butter
Roast chicken is one of those things that are easy, and reliable. Here at the ranch, we usually roast a chicken early in the week, and then hover around it for the next few days, nibbling and picking as we hurry from studio, to meal, and back to studio again. My husband has been working…
Roasted Garlic and Avocado Toast with Sundried Tomatoes
It’s weird when toast starts making headlines, but that’s where we are right now. Do a search for avocado toast. Trust me, you will be bowled over by the number of healthy minded folks that have tossed butter and jelly out the window, and are now slathering avocados on their morning bread. I think it’s…