Whipped Cream

This is your calling to make your own whipped cream. It is beyond easy. It tastes so good, and it makes a ton! It is such an impressive flex to any event or dinner when you bring a nice, cold bowl of freshly whipped cream. There is something so vintage about it. Like making your…

Wonderful Waffles

A hazard of the job of a recipe developer and culinary class instructor is that I am always trying new recipes. I am on the hunt for ways to simplify recipes for students and also ways to broaden their horizons. I want to find food that is yummy and also some recipes that may challenge…

Fresh Tomato Pasta Sauce

If you’re like me, about March you’re ready for some summer produce! Here is the perfect tomato sauce for the height of tomato season (late summer) when tomatoes are cheap, flavorful, and plentiful. Make sure a grown up does the grating of the tomato, unless you have a rotary grater or food mill like we…

Sheet Pan Peach Cobbler

I developed this recipe out of a need for a quicker, out of season peach cobbler for our Outstanding Orange course. We only have an hour and a half from start to finish, which can be tricky when baking with 10 student chefs. Often cobblers will have you bake it for 45 minutes to an…

Mini Quiche Lorraine

Quiche Lorraine is loved by my father. I never understood it until I made my own version. The creamy custard was wholly different from the tasteless, eggy things I had experienced thawed from the freezer at various gatherings over the years. Quiche had always been “fine”, but nothing to rave about. Then I made my…

Brilliant Blue Pasta with Cream Sauce

Every time I test this pasta, I go to take a taste, and end up eating the entire bowl right there over the counter. It is shockingly good. There is something about super fresh, hand made pasta dough covered in incredibly rich cream sauce that is irresistible to me. If you have a pasta attachment…

Brilliant Blueberry Smoothie

This gorgeous smoothie is a staple in my house! The color is a win for the kids, and the fiber is a win for me! I love that they can get such a burst of antioxidants from the load of blueberries that gets chucked in there, and the seeds give some great fats and fiber….

Gremolata

Gremolata is an Italian condiment. It is sometimes called a green sauce, but is really more solid than that. If you have ever sprinkled parsley on the a dish at the end for a pop of color and flavor, gremolata is kind of like that, except with way more flavor. In my house we use…

Blueberry Muffins

We don’t often have these delicious bakery style blueberry muffins, but when we do, they are such a treat. They are exactly what I imagine a blueberry muffin should be, plus they don’t have any additional ingredients found in packaged muffin snacks. If your little one is used to smaller muffins, try these in a…

Pesto

If you’ve only ever had pesto from a jar, you’re in for a treat. The brightness that comes from fresh basil and freshly toasted pine nuts is incomparable to the stuff you buy on the shelf in your local grocery store. Throw this sauce on your favorite shape of pasta, into a big pot of…

Chimichurri Green Sauce

I still remember the first time I had this sauce. My husband and I had just moved to Houston from New Orleans. We didn’t know many people yet, and my husband’s friend’s mom invited us all over for dinner. She made an entire beef tenderloin! I had never seen one before and didn’t know what…