This doctored devil’s food cake mix with espresso adds a lovely complex and moist cake.
Peanut Butter Out of the Box Cake
This peanut butter hack to a classic yellow boxed cake mix is moist and delicious.
Chocolate Fudge Frosting
If you’re looking for a deep, rich, full-on chocolate frosting, then this is it.
Lemon Out of the Box Cake
Doctor up a lemon cake mix with yogurt to cut the sweetness, pudding and lemon zest to make it more authentically lemon flavored.
Bakery Style White Out of the Box Cake
This doctoring up of a white cake mix uses more eggs, butter and buttermilk for a denser more bakery quality cake, without being overly sweet.
Passionfruit Poppy Seed Cake
The bright flavor of passionfruit is a lovely complement to the simple poppy seed cake.
Cream Cheese Frosting
This cream cheese frosting tastes great on EVERYTHING!
Red Velvet Out of the Box Cake
This doctored red velvet cake mix is better than one made cake from scratch. The pudding, sour cream and buttermilk make a dense bakery style cake
Autumn Apple Pie
A few small details help make this the best apple pie you’ve ever baked.
Pear & Pomegranate Salad with Orange Poppyseed Vinaigrette
This salad is loaded up with juicy pear, tart pomegranate, pecans, gorgonzola, all on a bed of fresh baby spinach and drizzled with a citrus orange poppyseed vinaigrette.
Green Beans with Meyer Lemon Vinaigrette & Parmesan Breadcrumbs
I love the lemon zing of these green beans. Meyer lemons are less acidic than standard lemons, and their zest and juice have an herbal, even floral, undertone that makes them yummy.
Fall Leaves Pâte Brisée Pie Crust
The crust on this pie, an all-butter pate brisee a golden and delicately tender.
One-Pan Baked Salmon & Baby Broccoli
Wonderfully delicious and super easy, this quick and healthy meal is surprisingly flavorful despite its minimal ingredients.
Light & Fluffy White Out of the Box Cake
This is a great hack to a white boxed cake mix. The egg whites make the cake light as air and the buttermilk makes the cake taste more complex.
Roasted Potatoes With Sage and Garlic
Classically delicious and always a crowd pleaser.
Passionfruit Poppy Seed Out of the Box Cake
This is a light and summer-y hack to a white boxed cake mix. The egg whites make the cake light as air.
Moist & Dense White Out of the Box Cake
This doctored up version of a white cake mix is incredibly moist. There’s milk, buttermilk, and sour cream in there which makes it more dense, like a homemade cake should be.
Strawberry Avocado Salad with Pomegranate Poppyseed Dressing
This fresh and delicious summer salad is an explosion of flavor!
Lamb Stir-Fry with Pomegranate and Coconut Yogurt
Lamb is a great way to break out of the usual beef-chicken-pork rut, especially when used in a quick-cooking but complex-tasting dish like this.
Chili Beef, Basil and Asparagus Stir-Fry
This stir-fry uses the strong flavors of chilies and the refreshing flavor of basil to create a nice contrast of tastes. Beef is a good choice of meat for such a strong-flavored stir-fry.
Best Ever Classic Peach Pie
Peach pie is such a happy pie and my absolute favorite although I don’t make it nearly often enough.
Double Chocolate Cloud Cake
A great way to use colored frosting and still have an all chocolate cake is to make white chocolate. This cake was part of a baby “sprinkle” where all the decorations were blue rain drops and white clouds.
Greek Chicken
I love the tang of lemony, garlicky Greek chicken. This recipe does not disappoint.
Ahi Poke
This paleo adaption of Ahi Poke which is Hawaiian Tuna Tartar.