Tasty Recipes for the Home Cook
Tasty Recipes for the Home Cook
This poppy seed cake with strawberry pie filling and pink lemonade whipped cream frosting is a super easy to make summertime dessert. It is a great recipe to have when a delicious treat with little effort is in order. This cake might not make the cover of any magazine, but don’t let that take away from all of its glory. It is an ideal …
Fried dough stuffed with shaved steak and gooey American cheese is sinfully good. This Steak and Cheese Fried Dough is a little bit of work, but it’s so worth it! I first published this post in August of 2013. It has been updated with new images and added content. For this post, I initially intended to make a copycat version of an egg fried dough …
Chunks of steak and home fries are topped with sunny-side-up eggs and drizzled with a lemon garlic sauce in this Sheet Pan Home Fries with Steak and Eggs. It is perfect for breakfast, brunch, lunch, or dinner. Dinner is my favorite meal of the day, followed by lunch. As for breakfast, my appetite doesn’t usually kick in until I have been awake for a while. …
What makes these Samoa Truffles a must try? They are made with vanilla wafer crumbs, toasted coconut, and melted caramel candy. They are coated in melted chocolate and more toasted coconut. Hi guys! I made these Samoa Truffles for my friend Melanie a few years back on her blog. To this day, every time I serve it, it is always a hit. It’s so good that …
Vanilla no-churn ice cream with swirls of mango puree and lime zest is creamy and luscious. It’s a refreshing taste of summer in every mouthful. This post was originally published on June 11, 2018, and updated on April 29, 2024. This ice cream, composed of a vanilla base swirled with a mango lime puree, is not only pretty but also delicious! I’m not a huge …
To die for Serendipity3’s Frrrozen Hot Chocolate is refreshing, lush, and chocolaty. It’s topped with a mountain of whipped cream and sprinkled with chocolate shavings—just like Serendipity3’s in New York City. This post has been updated since its original publication. New images and a step-by-step section have been added, but the original content remains the same. I have always believed that bigger, more expensive is …
This Salmon Pappardelle in Roasted Red Pepper Cream Sauce makes a quick and easy weeknight dinner feel special. Perfectly pan-seared salmon with al dente pappardelle pasta and tender spinach are coated in a creamy roasted sweet red pepper sauce. There is a cashier at the grocery store I frequent I refer to as “The Eye Roller”. Anytime I make a special request, she rolls her eyes. “Could I …
Mexican Horchata is a refreshing and slightly sweetened rice milk drink. This version is delicately flavored with almond coconut milk, vanilla, and cinnamon. It is also dairy and gluten-free! If bad things happen in sets of three, then I am due to fall into a drainage hole, get pushed into a swimming pool, or something to that effect any day now. The saga began over a week ago. It was a …
Peach Cream Cheese Muffins with Streusel are wonderfully tender and with an abundance of soft peach chunks. They are topped with a smooth layer of cream cheese and finished off with a sprinkling of buttery streusel. Here’s a question for you: what item must you have with you when traveling? Why am I asking? Well, I’ll be flying out to visit family soon, and I’m mentally …
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