Classic French Toast with Bacon, Sausage & Scrambled Eggs
This is the breakfast plate I make on weekend mornings when everyone's home and there's no rush. Thick bread soaked in a cinnamon-vanilla custard and cooked until the outside is properly golden — not pale and flabby, but actually golden — with crispy bacon, browned sausages, and soft scrambled eggs…
Slow Cooker Beef Enchilada Casserole
Fifteen minutes of actual work. Everything else happens in the slow cooker while you're doing something else. Ground beef seasoned with taco spices, layered with tortilla strips, black beans, corn, enchilada sauce, salsa, and two kinds of cheese — then left on low for four to six hours until it's…
Rhubarb Cream Cheese Hand Pies
Most hand pie recipes have one filling. This one has two — a jammy cooked rhubarb and a lemony cream cheese — layered together inside a flaky buttermilk crust. The rhubarb is sharp and bright; the cream cheese is cool and rich; the pastry holds it all in a golden,…
Rhubarb Cream Cheese Swirl Bread
Rhubarb has about six weeks of peak season, and every year I scramble to use it before it's gone. This bread is where most of mine goes. It's a simple vanilla quick bread with a cup of chopped rhubarb folded into the batter and a layer of sweetened cream cheese…
Mediterranean Ground Chicken Bowl with Creamy Hot Honey Feta Sauce
The sauce is the reason to make this. Feta blended with Greek yogurt, honey, lemon, chilli flakes, and a little olive oil until it's smooth and pourable — it lands somewhere between a vinaigrette and a dip, and it makes everything it touches taste better. Spoon it over the spiced…
Onion Boil
A whole sweet onion with the center hollowed out, packed with seasoned butter and a crushed beef bouillon cube, wrapped tight in foil, and set on the indirect side of the grill for an hour. When you open the packet, the onion is completely tender and sitting in a pool…
Butterscotch Potato Chip Cookies
The first time I made these I was skeptical about the potato chips. Two cups of them, roughly crushed, going into a brown sugar cookie dough that's already loaded with butterscotch chips. It sounded like a dare more than a recipe. But the chips don't make the cookie taste like…
2-Ingredient Pineapple Angel Food Cake
One box of angel food cake mix. One can of crushed pineapple. Stir them together and bake. That's it — no eggs, no oil, no water, no extra steps. The pineapple juice activates the mix and does everything the liquid was going to do anyway, and you end up with…
