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I’ll see your regular salt & pepper chicken nuggets and raise you homemade Lemongrass and Wasabi Asian style Chicken Nuggets that taste infinitely better! Easy to make and full of bold flavours. Plus, you can make these ahead of time and freeze for later use too. Homemade chicken nuggets Here’s a nugget of truth/observational fact. Homemade chicken nuggets always taste infinitely better than the fast food variety or the ones you find in the frozen section in your grocery store....

This gorgeous and refreshing Ginger Rose Fizz is made with rose syrup, lemon juice, ginger juice and club soda, and has a beautiful spicy and floral flavor profile. Perfect as a Valentine’s Day recipe for a rose cocktail or mocktail, or for any celebratory moment in your life! But better late than never, and there’s always a time for this beautiful Blushing Ginger Rose Fizz (Rose Cocktail) in my opinion!...

Knowing your cooked sugar stages (or candy temperatures) is CRITICAL when it comes to making candy. If you love making caramels, marshmallows, and other types of candy, this article is for you! Learn the stages of cooked sugar with this handy information guide and chart on candy temperatures! Sugar syrup at the correct temperature, in a saucepan. Sugar syrup (candy) stages and temperatures, and how it all works Explanation of the terminology Candy temperature chart Thread stage Soft ball stage Firm ball stage Hard ball stage Soft crack stage Hard crack stage Light caramel stage Dark caramel stage When you’re cooking sugar with water, the sugar syrup reaches distinct stages as the temperature goes up....

This original Cookie Monster Cheesecake is a fudgy, chewy chocolate chip cookie blondie base, and a creamy cookies and cream cheesecake loaded with crushed Oreos, coated with a thin layer of chocolate ganache, and topped with more mini chocolate chip cookies! This is one of my favorite dessert recipes from my Secret Layer Cakes Cookbook , and it will have little cookie monsters jumping for joy everywhere! When I was little, Cookie Monster was one of my favorite Sesame Street characters....

Authentic churros are usually super simple to make. In this post, I test different recipes for churros to find out if complicating the recipe is worth the trouble. The best churros can be made with the simplest of ingredients. So easy, with a super crunchy crust, and a soft & delicious center. Just the way classic authentic churros are meant to be! Pair with a chocolate hot fudge sauce or an easy dulce de leche for a decadent treat....

Rich, silky, smooth mixture of chocolate and cream. The consistency can vary from pourable (used as a glaze or filling) to thick (used to make truffles or thick frosting) depending on the ratio of chocolate to cream.

These coffee marshmallows are simply the best in town! Soft and fluffy, with robust coffee flavor, these are just as foolproof and perfect as my tried and true vanilla marshmallows . I tested many different options to add the best coffee flavor while maintaining a pillowy-soft texture. Making homemade marshmallows is so rewarding. It’s one of my favorite candy recipes to make for the holidays, and the best part is ALL the different flavors and variations you can make with them!...

Here’s how to make boba pearls (tapioca pearls) at home! They are super simple to make, and heaps better than store-bought ones. Use them to make brown sugar bubble tea, classic bubble milk tea , iced matcha bubble tea, or any other type of bubble tea (like this ube bubble tea ) at home! Brown sugar bubble tea with homemade boba pearls is the perfect summer treat! Recipe highlights What are boba pearls (aka tapioca pearls)?...

If you’re looking to make the most dazzling and magical cocktail recipes with the most simple little trick, then you’re going to LOVE this Homemade Shimmery Liqueur Recipe! Here I share all the instructions and tips on how to make shimmery liqueur (homemade Viniq) to make your own magic potion. Perfect for Halloween cocktails and other celebratory events. Today I’m sharing with you guys a super cool discovery that I made recently!...

A gloriously delicious Red Velvet Cake with an Ombre Crusting Cream Cheese Frosting! If you want the look of fondant, but not the taste, then this versatile crusting cream cheese frosting is what you need. I’ve known my husband for over 13 years now, first as a friend who eventually became my husband. Last month was the first time in a long time that we were in the same place on his birthday!...

Red Wine Marinated Steak Sandwich with grilled onions, cheddar cheese and arugula is the ultimate summer sandwich recipe! And pair it with a cherry and blackberry Red Wine Granita with sweetened black pepper sour cream for dessert! Pretty much every day of the month so far has been wildly different weather. This past Sunday however we struck gold with glorious weather. The kind of weather that finally convinces you that dreary winter days are firmly behind you....

Sweet, spicy and sour, this delicious Mango Curry is a Sri Lankan classic and favorite. Simple to make and packed with a great depth of flavor, like any good curry, thanks to this robust homemade curry powder . Perfect dish to use up seasonal mangoes that are slightly underripe. It’s that time of the year when juicy, ripe, sweet mangoes are hitting the shelves at our local market. We’ve been making a lot of mango popsicles , mango sorbet , mango lassi and even frozen mango margaritas for those Friday evenings, but lately I’ve been feeling like a savory mango dish....

Cinnamon rolls made with a rich, soft, fluffy, brioche-like bread dough, stuffed with a delicious butter-cinnamon-sugar paste, and topped with a tangy easy cream cheese frosting . Super easy, and can be made ahead of time too! This is the BEST Cinnamon Rolls recipe you’ll ever have! For an even richer and more buttery version, try my brioche cinnamon rolls . Cinnamon rolls are not an every day occurrence for us....

These Asian deviled eggs are an incredibly flavorful twist on the traditional deviled eggs. Spiced, soy sauce marinated eggs, filled with a creamy yolk filling, and dripping with umami flavor. They’re perfect for Easter, or every other day (and night) of the year for that matter! Swap your regular deviled eggs for these deviled miso ramen eggs! Recipe highlights How to boil eggs for deviled eggs Making the soy sauce marinade for the eggs How to make sure your hard boiled eggs marinate evenly Preparing the marinated Asian deviled eggs Serving suggestions (toppings) Why I love this recipe So I figured why not combine the best of deviled eggs and ramen eggs to make the most flavorful and beautiful deviled eggs?...

There’s something just so comforting about a super soft, moist, perfectly sweet banana layer cake . But what makes this cake even more special is the complex and flavorful brown butter cream cheese frosting that is super creamy and not too sweet! This old fashioned homemade banana cake gets an upgrade with an ever more flavorful twist on my classic cream cheese frosting recipe . Plus, it’s so easy to make too....

Boil To cook item in boiling water or liquid.

These incredibly light, fluffy, easy Pumpkin Pancakes aren’t just packed with deliciously fragrant pumpkin pie spice and topped with a decadent maple pecan topping, they also couldn’t be any easier to make. These pumpkin pancakes can be made with my easy, foolproof homemade pancake mix as well. Pancakes on Sundays is a favorite in my household. And when the cooler months of autumn roll around, I love to incorporate those seasonal flavors into our regular rotations....

This leftover turkey sandwich is the EASIEST way to transform your Thanksgiving leftovers into a hearty, scrumptious breakfast/brunch sandwich recipe the next day. The secret to a great leftover turkey sandwich is to steam leftover turkey in the oven so that the meat stays tender and juicy without drying up! Simplest way to repurpose Thanksgiving leftovers Post-Thanksgiving blues are no fun. You had a fabulous meal, had a great time with family, and now you’re spending the rest of the evening with your pants unfastened to accommodate that over-sized food baby....

This spectacularly creamy Coconut Panna Cotta is extremely easy to make, similar in texture to a classic panna cotta , and has no refined sugars, and is paleo, dairy-free and vegan-friendly! Like this tofu chocolate mousse and coffee panna cotta , we often serve this as a healthy dessert option for breakfast/brunch too! Panna cotta My first panna cotta was one I made many years ago, after seeing it on TV....

A sugar technique where cooked sugar syrup is cooled then repeatedly pulled and folded to incorporate air and develop a glossy, satiny sheen.