Pan-Asian Lettuce Wraps with Peanut Sauce

This is one of our favorite quick and easy recipes, and is easily made vegan! Difficulty: EasyServes: 4-6Time: 30 minutesLeftover Friendly!🥬Vegan Friendly! Ingredients Lettuce Wraps 1 lb. ground turkey, or meat alternative, or mushrooms 1 onion, diced 1 bell pepper, diced 1/2 c. carrots, chopped 1 head of Bibb or romaine lettuce (romaine will be…

Palmiers

When you need to whip up a cookie in a hurry, you can't do better than the basic palmier! Both of these versions are adapted from those from Bake from Scratch magazine. Difficulty: Beginner friendly, perfect for those who "don't bake"Serves: 24 cookiesTime: 30-45 minutes Ingredients Berry Version 1 piece frozen puff pastry (usually come…

Apple & Pumpkin Doughnuts

We love a yummy doughnut in our house and we're excited to share these quick and easy doughnuts two ways, one with apple and chai spice and one version with pumpkin! The best part, too, is that you can either fry them or bake them, whichever you prefer! Difficulty: Beginner to ModerateServes: 48 mini doughnuts…

Babkas with Cinnamon, Peanut Butter, Coffee & Chocolate

We absolutely love these decadent sweet rolls filled with all our favorite things! There's nothing better to have with a morning (or afternoon) cup of coffee that a babka and the more flavors in the filling the better! Difficulty: Moderate difficultyServes: 12 individual babkaTime: 2 hours Ingredients Dough 563 g all-purpose flour, divided into 500…

Chorizo, Cheddar & Onion Beer Bread

If there is one thing we love to include in our savory bakes it's chorizo! This is a new favorite loaf of ours and is a big hit with our friends and family. Difficulty: Beginner FriendlyServes: 10-12 single slicesTime: 1 hour 45 minutes Ingredients 1 full ring or 4 links of chorizo fully cooked, cubed…

Butter Curry Chicken with Rice

Sarah has gotten really into watching baking and cooking videos on YouTube and then turning them into something new and different. Her latest, butter curry chicken, is inspired by GBBO star Chetna! Difficulty: Beginner FriendlyServes: 4-6 peopleTime: 45 minutes + 30-60 minutes to marinateLeftover friendly! Ingredients 2" x 1" piece of ginger, peeled 6 cloves…

Dark & Stormy Pineapple Rum Cake

Our inspiration for trying this recipe was as an alternative to the Chocolate Cherry Rum Cake as some family members and friends cannot have chocolate or anything with red food color. While we like it as a Bundt cake, it definitely tastes best as mini Bundts! Difficulty: Moderate difficultyServes: 12 peopleTime: 45-60 minutes + 30-90…

Anzac Biscuits

These are one of Sarah's husband's favorite cookies! He particularly loves them with an afternoon cup of earl grey on a rainy day. Sarah first had them when she traveled to New Zealand and was particularly excited when her coworker Marielle shared with her a recipe for them! Difficulty: Beginner to moderate difficultyServes: 24 cookiesTime:…

Moroccan Couscous with Chicken

This was one of the first recipes that Sarah learned how to make when she decided to start cooking more and it's become a dinner time staple in our house. We also love the versatility of this recipe - you can make it with just about anything you would normally have on hand - mix…

Chocolate, Espresso & Molasses Cookies

Another adaptation from Brian Hart Hoffman's The Cookie Collection, these cookies have been crowd favorites everywhere we've taken them! Difficulty: Beginner friendlyServes: 24-30 cookiesTime: 25 minutes + 15 minute freeze Ingredients 170 g butter, softened and cubed 300 g granulated sugar 42 g molasses 1 large egg (we also like to make these with Bob's…