DIY Essentials: Homemade Cake Flour

Cake flour is probably not one of those things you have on hand, but when you...

Topping Essentials: Tomato and Caramelized Onions

Served this the other day on some “stacked” oven-baked ribeye. This is a spicy tomato/onion recipe...
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Appetizer Essentials: Pan-Fried Garlic Shrimp

If you love shrimp, and you want an easy recipe that packs great flavor, and will...

Asian Essentials: Egg Fried Rice

People that know me, know that I love rice… In all its brilliant forms. If you...
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Poultry Essentials: Spicy Baked Chicken Breasts

This is a very easy recipe to make, and you probably have all the ingredients you...

Asian Essentials: Awesome Pot Stickers

I love pot stickers, and the fun thing about them is that you can customize them...
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Asian Essentials: Dim Sum Dipping Sauces

For this year’s Independence Day celebration, I am doing a small plates dinner outside, where we...

Poultry Essentials: Easy/Peasy Chicken Piccata

This is my second piccata recipe; the difference is that this one is a bit more...

Cooking Essentials: Self-Rising Flour

Okay, it happens… you have a recipe that calls for self-rising flour, and you do not...

Stovetop Essentials: Spicy Chicken & Rice

I put together two skillets of this recipe, for a brunch on Sunday. Mostly threw it...