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Bourbon Balls
These boozy delights aren’t original (bourbon or rum balls have been a southern staple for eons) but I started making them a few years back when I wanted a pretty powdered sugar contrast on my Christmas cookie gift plates. They’re absurdly easy, decadent, and flexible to substitutions.
Golden Potato Pizza
This recipe, a nod to Italian Pizza con Patate, doesn’t even require a sauce and comes together in a matter of hours. Cheese would be an obvious good addition, but one that, for possibly the first time, I don’t think is necessary. It’s potatoes on pizza. What more could you want?
Poor Woman’s Fromage Fort
In its classic form, fromage fort is not a fancy thing to begin with. If you have some cheese, some seasonings, and some alcohol (or sparkling cider, for non-alcohol folks) that isn’t overly sweet, you can make this yummy snack for yourself.
Fried Rice Pudding
As desserts go, the only rival to my love for chocolate is sweet cream with warming spices. Rice pudding is a humble favorite of mine, breathtakingly easy and almost always within reach.
Gingersnap Pumpkin Pie
My husband, Alex, is a pumpkin pie fanatic, but he’s not so much interested in the pastry crust. (He’ll eat the filling out of a normal pie.) After a few years of tinkering, I’ve landed on a crushed gingersnap crust that he enjoys just as much as the filling, and I deepen the flavor profile of the pie with real vanilla beans.
Hasselback Sweet Potatoes with Pepper Jelly Glaze and Goat Cheese
I’ll be the first one to decry adding more sweetness to sweet potatoes, but this hasselback version drenched in pepper jelly is an exception. The heat from the peppers tones down the sweetness, and the saltiness of the goat cheese rounds out the flavors to make this a true savory side.
Shrimp Cornbread Dressing
Chef Paul intended this recipe to be a crawfish stuffing for poultry, but I think it’s good on its own as a dressing, and shrimp is easier to find where I am. Plus, this dressing doesn’t require an overnight chill in the fridge to be delicious. For best results, prep cornbread the day before to let it dry.
Iced Pumpkin Cookies
My husband’s favorite flavor of anything is pumpkin. (Don’t come at me with the “pumpkin is just the flavor of the spices” thing. We’ve been over it.) When we started dating he asked that I make him pumpkin cookies and, as I do, I threw something together without much thought given to the ingredient ratios/textural…… Continue reading Iced Pumpkin Cookies
Gluten-Free Brown Sugar Cookies with White Chocolate Drizzle
I’ll be honest with you. I have a lot of trouble with gluten-free baking. It’s largely because I’m a hot mess who bakes on instinct and gluten-free ingredients don’t behave in the ways I want them to, except in this recipe! I threw it together one Sunday morning and, lo and behold, real people outside…… Continue reading Gluten-Free Brown Sugar Cookies with White Chocolate Drizzle
The Heart and The Hunger 