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Homemade Onion Rings ! They're extra crispy and deeply flavorful. Made with fresh yellow onion slices, a seasoned breading, and crunchy panko bread crumbs. A diner style cousin and flavor boost to french fries that's sure to satisfy! Crispy Onion Rings When the craving for onion rings strikes sometimes you just don't want to leave the comfort of home to get them. Or perhaps you have a hungry crowd to feed and want to impress with this crave-worthy appetizer or side dish. Luckily making onion rings at home is easier than you may think and once you learn the method it's a breeze from then on out. You follow a simple breading process to coat the onion rings, then deep fry in hot oil in batches until beautifully golden brown and crisp. You'll just need a little patience to work in batches. From there serve with your favorite sauces. Excellent choices are fry sauce, ketchup, ranch dressing, or bbq sauce. Then just prepare for them to disappear as quickly as you put...

Creme  Brûlée - A transcendent dessert made with a few simple ingredients including luscious heavy cream, sweet simple sugar, rich egg yolks, and vanilla bean for premium flavor. It's the method that makes this impressive treat unique. The custard is baked in individual dishes in a water-bath after which it's chilled to set, and for the crowning finish it's sprinkled with plain sugar and melted with a hot flame to caramelize. What is Creme Brûlée? Crème brûlée is a French dessert that literally means "burnt cream," as it is a custard with a hard caramelized sugar shell coating the top. The contrasting layers make it one of my favorite dessert recipes out there. It is generally made in individual dishes called "ramekins" and served chilled. And it can be made in various flavors but the classic mostly commonly found variation is vanilla. Dessert really just doesn't get any better than this! To crack through that incredibly crisp, perfectly golde...

Beef Tenderloin - It's the most tender cut of beef and it's the highlight of any celebratory meal. Here it is roasted low and slow then reverse seared for a beautiful browned crust, and it's finished with a rich garlicky butter sauce to make it undeniably delicious! Perfect Beef Tenderloin Yes beef tenderloin is expensive because it only makes for a small percentage of the meat yield from a steer (or heifer), so that rarity along with it's highly sought after demand makes it a pricey cut of meat. But of course during the holidays it's worth the splurge. It's buttery tender and doesn't get better than this! The tenderloin (or filet mignon when cut into individual portions) has the best texture (it's ruined many cheap cuts of roast for me because it's so superior). Here we follow a straight forward method to prepare and cook it, it's seriously easy and hard to mess up. It is however almost imperative you have a key piece of kitchen equipment....

Perfect Chicken Cordon Bleu - made with tender chicken breasts, flavorful black forest ham, tangy Swiss cheese, and a crisp panko finish. And to polish it off it's highlighted with a creamy garlicky mustard sauce to finish. It may be old fashioned but it's still absolutely delicious! What is Chicken Cordon Bleu? Cordon Bleu is a dish with Swiss origin that is a derivative of schnitzel. Chicken cordon bleu specifically is made of chicken that has been pounded thin, layered with ham slices, and topped with Swiss cheese. They layers are rolled snug or folded over, after which it's breaded with flour, egg and dried breadcrumbs. And to cook it's and either pan fried or baked. In the United States it was a dish that was very popular between the 60's and 70's. In my experience as a kid growing up in the 90's I commonly remember chicken cordon bleu casserole which was a simplified version (which wasn't quite as good, but mimicked the same flavors). You ca...

A Honey Baked Ham recipe made at home for a fraction of the price you'd pay at a store with a flavor that's just as delicious! The salty, hickory smoke flavor of the ham is perfectly balanced with a sweet and sticky honey and brown sugar glaze, which also has delicious hints of warm spices to compliment it. Honey Baked Ham Recipe A go-to method for spiral sliced ham. In the past I've hated how I'd always ended up with some dry slices, but not here. I like Cook's Illustrated's method for spiral sliced ham so I used the same method here and just added different glaze rather than the orange maple one they used. So many ham recipes (at the same weight) are cooked at 375 degrees for up to 3 hours but why? The ham is already fully cooked, it just needs to be warmed through for serving. Here the ham is first brought up to room temperature in warm water so it heats more evenly in the oven. From there it's wrapped in an oven bag for faster cooking, and moiste...

Chicken Pot Pie with Puff Pastry (Bites!) - It's easily one of the best ways to make pot pie! You get a creamy, richly flavored chicken and vegetable base thats topped with bite size pieces of golden brown, super flakey, buttery puff pastry. It's the ultimate cozy comfort food. My Favorite Way to Make Puff Pastry Chicken Pot Pie Most often you'll see chicken pot pie with puff pastry made two ways. Either prepared and baked as a whole "pie" in a single baking dish, or made in individual ramekins or bowls. Both work but I created this variation because I wanted something easier, a dish that finished with perfectly flakey and non-soggy puff pastry, an option that didn't waste puff pastry scraps (precious!), and something that wasn't so messy. If you bake in a single dish the puff pastry doesn't cut cleanly, and if you do individual servings it's tedious to work with single bowls and get the puff pastry to stick well. You also may likely find the...

Homemade White Hot Chocolate - This dreamy and decadent drink is rich and creamy, brimming with white chocolate and vanilla flavor, it has the perfect balance of sweetness, and it's a fancy drink for the holidays with it's bright and billowy presentation. Love white chocolate vanilla bean treats? Also try my triple layer Vanilla Bean Cheesecake (with Mousse!). It's easily one of my all time favorite desserts! The BEST White Hot Chocolate I'd dare say this velvety drink is the BEST white hot chocolate! Far better than any mix you'll by, better than what you'll get at a local shop, and yes even better than Starbucks white hot chocolate. It's company-worthy and loved by people of all ages. And you wouldn't believe how easy it is to make. Plus it only requires 4 ingredients (along with a pinch of salt), and it's perfectly customizable (see some fun ideas below). It's also an unexpected and welcome change from the classic chocolate flavored h...

Italian Ricotta Cookies are soft and tender, cake-like cookies with a sweet and simple icing. They have a light lemon flavor and plenty of moisture thanks to the rich ricotta. They're holiday classic and such a fun recipe to try if you've never made them. The Best Ricotta Cookies Recipe! Our favorite ricotta cookies! They're easy to make and they're always consistently delicious. They're so good that you can never stop at just one. The ricotta cookie dough can be made two days in advance so it's a great make ahead recipe. Plus it makes a huge batch of cookies so they're great for celebrations and gifting. You'll love their lightly lemony flavor, the melt-in-your-mouth texture and that sweet and simple icing finish. And if you want a little contrast finish them with crunchy sugar sprinkles which also adds a pretty and festive pop of color.   from Cooking Classy

Homemade M&M Cookies - A soft and chewy cookie that's much like a chocolate chip cookie but replaced with crisp shelled, sweet, multi-colored M&M's instead of chocolate chips. They are an absolute treat and so fun for people of all ages! Favorite M&M Cookie Recipe These are a favorite cookie from childhood that always satisfies those cookie cravings! They can be made with regular sized M&M's or mini M&M's, milk chocolate or dark chocolate flavor, and the great part is that you can use any color. It's fun to switch the M&M's out with different colors to complement the latest holiday. You'll love that they're perfectly sweet, deliciously buttery, they're a generous size, and have the perfect texture. Truly a highlight to any celebration or weekend. A cookie that checks all the boxes. Temptingly tasty, fun and festive, a pretty individual hand held treat, and they're easy to make. What's not to love? from Cooki...

The easiest and quickest Cut Out Sugar Cookie recipe ! It's made from a simple dough using basic ingredients and there's no need to wait hours for dough to chill. So you can have a batch of sugar cookies decorated and ready in about an hour with this streamlined method. Simple Sugar Cookie Cut Outs Who says you need to wait 2 hours to chill sugar cookie dough before cutting? This recipe and simple method proves that old method wrong. The simple technique to speed up the process, which also happens to be less of a mess as well, is to roll the dough between two sheets of parchment paper and freeze for just 15 minutes it to firm it up. From there the dough is easy to work with and ready to go to cut into various shapes. It's a process I use in my gingerbread men recipe and it works amazingly well here also. You end with cookies that hold there shape nicely, that have crisp edges, chewy centers and a deliciously buttery flavor. Decorating Suggestion Then to keep the s...