Baked Lemon Garlic Salmon
Salmon baked in a foil packet with a lemon-garlic-oregano-paprika sauce, then opened and briefly broiled at the end to brown the surface. 28 minutes total. The foil packet traps steam and keeps the fish tender all the way through; the broil finish gives it color that a foil-wrapped bake alone never achieves. …
Gluten-Free Chocolate Bundt Cake
A gluten-free chocolate bundt that doesn't taste like a compromise. Sour cream in the batter, a dry instant pudding mix stirred in for extra moisture, mini chocolate chips throughout, and a poured cocoa glaze with sour cream for a glossy finish. It bakes at 350°F for 55 to 60 minutes and cools…
Sourdough Apple Pie Pull-Apart Bread
An enriched sourdough loaf with apple pie DNA — the dough is rolled out, spread with cinnamon-brown sugar butter, cut into 16 squares, each square folded around a spoonful of diced Granny Smith apple, stacked four-high into a loaf pan, proofed until puffy, topped with a cold-butter streusel, baked for…
Honey Kettle Fried Chicken
Fried chicken with a honey drizzle at the end — that's the whole concept. The batter is a quick version of buttermilk (cold milk with a tablespoon of vinegar, rested 10 minutes to thicken slightly) mixed with flour, salt, pepper, and marjoram. Fry for 8 minutes until golden, drain, and drizzle with…
Mars Bar Crispy Cake
Mars Bars, butter, and golden syrup melted together — the nougat takes a while and requires patience — then poured over rice krispies, pressed into a tin, covered in melted milk chocolate, and left to set. No baking. One saucepan. The result is chewy, crunchy, chocolatey, and the kind of thing…
Sourdough Waffles or Pancakes
One batter that works for either pancakes or waffles, and the best version of it starts the night before. Mix the sourdough discard, buttermilk, sugar, vanilla, butter, and flour the evening before — leave it covered at room temperature. In the morning, stir in the eggs and leavening, rest for…
Cheesy Ground Beef with Sweet Potato and Zucchini
A one-skillet weeknight dinner with more technique than it appears. The zucchini gets salted for 10 minutes and patted dry before it goes in — otherwise it releases water into the pan and makes everything soupy. The sweet potato goes in before the zucchini and cooks covered so it steams…
Blackstone Breakfast Sliders
The whole breakfast on one griddle in 25 minutes. Ground sausage cooked as a flat rectangle that fits the Hawaiian rolls, scrambled eggs shaped to match and covered with American cheese to melt, rolls toasted cut-side down, everything stacked and cut into sliders. Good for a crowd because you're cooking…
