This recipe for Banana Walnut Pancakes with Caramelized Banana Topping is like a tale of two bananas. One is brown and overripe and the other is full of hope, with nary a mark on it's yellow flesh. You'll need both for this recipe but it's worth it. I personally can't remember the last time I ate a banana as nature intended but ask me what to use them in and I'm like the Bubba Gump of the banana plant. You can fry 'em, mash 'em, bake 'em, freeze 'em—you see what I'm getting at. They're …
Pineapple Carrot Quick Bread – The Pandemic Baking Comeback
We're baking again right? Because it feels like my need to bake all the things rises proportionately to how bad the news gets. Which brings me to this Pineapple Carrot Quick Bread, because immediately after seeing snow on the ground in October coupled with non-stop news from the south, I felt the need to eat my feelings in the form of a warm, baked, comfort food. Something I could slather with butter and pair with a cup of tea. I turned to this after I remembered a time when I worked in a …
Roasted Buffalo Cauliflower Bites, Irresistible and Simple
I'm a bad girl when it comes to food. Dirty fantasies for me include a chiseled guy in an apron saying, "Hey baby, I made this deep fried, extra fatty piece of animal meat, dipped in a super caloric and decadent dip just for you." Swoon. The reality though is even though I think bad, I often act good; case in point this recipe for Simple Roasted Buffalo Cauliflower Bites. Make no mistake, I would much rather sit down and mow through a full plate of crispy chicken wings, but as I get older …
Homemade Real Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
So today I'm going to share my recipe for real mint chocolate chip ice cream with you, but before I do, I'm going to spend at least 500 words just telling you a story. I WISH I could just share the recipe and move the eff on with my day but the Google gods insist that I blather on endlessly about my mundane life in order to get this ice cream for "real mint chocolate chip ice cream" (keyword alert) into the search engine. I don't make the rules people, I just follow them. So here we go. …
Browned Butter Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Blondies
Browned butter is one of those irresistible tastes in life like the corner piece of brownie or the cheese that melts into a crispy chip in the frying pan. Simply put, it's a flavour you can't help but love, which is why these Browned Butter Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Blondies will be on repeat in your house. It's possible that you have accidentally browned butter many times in your life and savoured it's sweet nutty flavour, but this time you're going to brown your butter intentionally. …
