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Chilaquiles This Mexican breakfast is a delicious and unique way to start your day. This recipe only takes 30 minutes to make using 5 simple ingredients. You can customize your Chilaquiles with your favorite salsa and toppings. I’ve included toppings ideas at this post so you can decide what ingredients you want to include when serving this meal at your home. It is also an excellent way to use up leftover ingredients from previous meals....

Since then I’ve gotten my daily fix by savoring the corner of a chocolate bar or, on occasion, digging into something more special, like these Mini Chocolate Olive Oil Cakes. A Healthier Chocolate Cake These pint-sized cakes are undeniably decadent, so you might be surprised by the ingredients. While they don’t exactly qualify as “health food,” they’re healthier than your standard variety confection. That’s because they’re made with almond flour instead of all-purpose flour and olive oil in place of butter....

This huge colorful salad, filling yet light, has a mash-up vibe of a Tuscan vegetable garden meets seafood shack. The sweet chunks of lobster work in harmony with the summertime bounty of corn, tomatoes, and cucumbers. This is a casual main course meal that takes a little time because of the many components. Get the tomatoes marinating first, then work at your leisure. A great meal to make over a relaxing weekend at home!...

Lotus, Purple Sweet Potato, and Coconut Rice Pudding is a joyful and delicious dish that plays with texture—succulent sweet potatoes, crunchy lotus root, and soft lotus seeds are hugged by the sweet coconut rice pudding. As the rice cooks, the purple sweet potatoes turn the rice pudding into a cheerful shade of purple I love. Coconut cream is drizzled over the top to serve. The rice pudding is warm and textured, a contrast to the smooth silky coconut cream....

We did make a couple variations because the first batch we made came out rather dry. Turned out that the cookie just needed to be cooked a little less. They should be just lightly browning around the edges when you take them out of the oven, and still quite soft in the middle. As they cool, they’ll be a little crispy around the edges and moist in the middle. Browning the butter first adds wonderful flavor to the cookies....

The Ingredients for a Salty Dog If you’ve never had a Salty Dog, the ingredients might sound a little strange. Vodka, grapefruit, and salt? Really, that’s a thing? It is! It’s so simple and unexpectedly delicious that it may become your summer go-to. Fun Fact About the Salt Leave out the salt rim and you have a Greyhound, an equally nice cocktail. I like the salt rim of the Salty Dog (the etymology here is fairly obvious) for two reasons: Use a salt with a large, rough grain (like kosher salt) for the best results....

Berry Mojito Mocktail You are going to love this Berry Mojito Mocktail recipe made with Signature SELECT™ Soleil™ Sparkling Water! They are such a pretty drink and perfect for summer! The blackberries and raspberries make this “red, white, and blue” drink a HIT for the 4th of July or any summertime celebration. And because this is a virgin mojito mocktail, kids can enjoy them too! What Is A Mojito? A Mojito is a cocktail originating from Havana, Cuba that traditionally consists of five ingredients: white rum, sugar, lime juice, soda water, and mint....

Spatchcocked chickens say moist when grilled over low heat – no fear of dry, tasteless grilled chicken with this recipe! Combine this with a tasty ginger-orange marinade, and you’ve got one fantastic summer meal. So what is spatchcocking, anyway? Spatchcocked chicken is really just the same as butterflied chicken with another name. The name originated from the name for small, young birds, but it eventually morphed into the name of the cooking technique....

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Tuna Macaroni Salad Tuna macaroni salad is always a crowd-pleaser. You can customize it any way you want, from the add-ins to the dressing. This recipe is super easy to double and make for a large crowd, or size down to make as a side dish for smaller families. Great for BBQs, potlucks, family gatherings (or family reunions), or just as a light lunch! What’s In Tuna Macaroni Salad? Tuna mac salad is very simple with only a few easy-to-find ingredients....

Perry is a jam maker based in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the owner of Jam According to Daniel. He sells this jam at local farmers markets (his anchor business), at various shops in town, and online. I first met Perry at the farmers market when I bought a jam called Golden Red Raspberry, a magical combination of raspberries, turmeric, ginger, and pepper that’s sweet, bright, earthy, and peppery. It’s easy to get to the bottom of the jar quickly when spread on thick slices of sourdough bread....

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I ate this entire batch, save one teaspoon that my mother caught just in time, before it was all finished off. (In this family, you snooze, you lose.) Seriously, if you like beets, and you like hummus, you’ll love this beet hummus. The ingredients are beets, tahini, garlic, lemon, cumin, and salt and pepper. Unlike traditional hummus, are no chickpeas in this recipe. Use as a pretty topping for cucumber rounds, scoop some up with pita triangles or celery ribs, or just dive in, like oink-oink here, with a spoon, and eat it up before anyone knows what they’re missing....

How to Make the Perfect Chantilly Cream Chantilly cream is a sweetened whipped cream flavored with anything from vanilla to bourbon. Making perfectly whipped cream takes more patience than you might think. Some folks just turn the speed up to high and then end up with either a curdled mess en route to butter or whipped cream that deflates on your plate like melted ice cream. Perfectly whipped cream is not grainy, and it has a nice shine to it when dolloped onto the plate....

What is Duck Confit? Gently cured duck legs bathed in their own fat and slowly cooked to falling-off-the-bone perfection. Then the skin is crisped in a pan or oven, giving you the sinful combination of silky meat and crackling skin. It’ll roll your eyes back it’s so good. Real confit takes more than a day to make. But I have a work-around that takes just a little more than two hours and is nearly as good....

An Inexpensive Crowd Pleaser As I started to make it more and more I began to notice that friends started to drop by for dinner with increasing frequency. This was fine as all I had to do was add a bit more chicken stock and soy sauce and toss in another beaten egg. I could feed my guests cheaply and enjoy their company. Just Like Restaurant Egg Drop Soup! For years I ate what I thought had been faux egg drop soup cobbled together by a hungry student, however, it was only recently I discovered that my recipe was actually quite accurate....

Hawaiian Chicken Foil Packets I love making foil packets in the summer. It is so easy to toss all the ingredients into foil, wrap them up, and throw them on the grill. The kids even like to help make their own! These Hawaiian Chicken Foil Packets are definitely one of my favorite flavor combinations. With tender chicken thighs marinated in homemade teriyaki sauce, sweet and tangy pineapple, and the added flavor of peppers and onions, you really can’t beat it....

Video: How To Make Strawberry Shortcake To make strawberry shortcake, all you have to do is toss sliced fresh strawberries in sugar, and let them set for a bit to macerate. The sugar will draw moisture out of the strawberries and dissolve to make a syrupy sauce. Serve the strawberries over white cake or biscuits, and top with whipped cream. Cake or Biscuits? Do you like your shortcake with cake or biscuits?...

My favorite was a perfectly seasonal summer pizza sprinkled with toppings of zucchini, corn, and pickled peppers. While Ken’s was topped with ricotta salata, I went with a creamy, salty, and cheese pull-tastic blend of fresh ricotta, parmesan, and mozzarella. My flatbread recipe is loosely inspired by Ken’s pizza and uses similar primary ingredients, but you don’t need a wood fired oven or expert pizzaiolo skills to put them together for an easy weeknight dinner....