Category: Recipes
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Strawberry Shortcake
This is that quintessential American summertime dessert, and when strawberries are in season and my garden is overflowing with them, we have shortcake several times a week. It’s such an easy dessert to make…I can turn out a shortcake with 5 minutes of effort and 20 minutes in the oven. Strawberries are really the feature…
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Pumpkin Caramel Tiramisu
Tiramisu is Italian for “Hey you, pick me up!” Traditionally it’s a layered dessert of tiny cakes called ladyfingers soaked in espresso, and mascarpone (an Italian cream cheese pronounced “MOSS-car-PONE-eh” and NO OTHER WAY). You know me, and I find a way to put pumpkin in everything, so this is my VERY special version of…
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Transforming Thanksgiving Leftovers
So it’s the day after Thanksgiving and your fridge is exploding with a mangled turkey carcass, half a pan of stuffing, gobs of gelatinous cranberry sauce…and you’ve got no idea what to do, right? Don’t microwave another paper plate filled with stale leftovers. Transform the leftovers into something different and better! Turkey Meat Tamales Coming…
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How to make “calaveras” or Mexican sugar skulls without meringue powder
The net is an incredible place, because 10 years ago, if I wanted to make “calaveras,” which are those sugar skulls that kids and lovers give each other for the Mexican holiday El Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead), how on earth would I have figured out how to do that without…
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Oatmeal Sweet Potato Pancakes
This morning Christian said he wanted some hearty pancakes for breakfast, so I decided I’d make oatmeal pancakes. But I had two ageing sweet potatoes sitting on the counter above my sink, and thought…why not make oatmeal sweet potato pancakes? They turned out superb. Sweet potatoes are so healthy for you. And as an added…
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Overnight Cinnamon Rolls
Who on Earth can resist a warm, yeasty, sticky, sweet cinnamon roll fresh from the oven? ESPECIALLY if there’s cream cheese frosting to smear on top? The problem is that it takes a solid 3 hours to get cinnamon rolls finished once they are started, and who wants to get up THAT early? The solution,…
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Colcannon (Irish recipe for St. Patrick’s Day)
An instructional video is at the bottom of this recipe. Colcannon is an Irish classic. They’ve been eating it for centuries. Normally it’s a mixture of mashed potatoes and kale that would commonly be eaten with pork. But in my version, the kale gets replaced with red cabbage, and I mix the pork right in. …
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Ma’o Farms Vegetarian Curry
On a recent trip to Hawaii, Adrien from MasterChef and I had the chance to visit an amazing farm called Ma’o on the west coast of Oahu near Waianae in the Hawaiian homelands, where only native Hawaiians are permitted to live. This farm is run entirely by youth (mostly under the age of 25) and…
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Pumpkin Carrot Pancakes with Candied Nuts
I adapted my now famous Pumpkin Carrot Cake recipe into a simple pancake recipe for my Christmas special at the Kenmore Live Studios, and this is a much simpler way to enjoy the same flavors you get from my very complex and time consuming MasterChef cake. In a bowl, combine: 2 cups all purpose flour…
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One-Hour Buttermilk English Muffins
I used to be grossed out by packaged English muffins. In fact, all packaged breads give me the creeps. I just can’t buy them. If they’re not sitting in the open air on the shelf of a bakery, and I’m confident they came out of the oven that day, I can’t bring myself to buy…