This is some of the best green salsa I have ever had, and I am so happy it came from my own kitchen. This is so easy to make, your friends will think you buy this stuff from a restaurant. I also cannot wait to experiment more and deviate from this recipe to make something of my own. This is a classic green salsa, with roasted tomatillos, onions, serranos, and garlic. It’s so easy, that you roast those ingredients, put them in a food processor, add a little salt, and that’s it. Such a game changer for anyone who enjoys some good chips and salsa. I can’t believe how easy…

If I could enter a chocolate chip cookie contest, I would make this recipe without a doubt! These are pretty over the top, in the most perfect way. They are HUGE, as in, you can only bake 3 cookies on an entire baking sheet big, and they might actually get stuck together still. Bouchon Bakery has always been know for their cookies and this chocolate chip and chunk recipe has to be one of their top sellers. By using both chips and chocolate chunks, they behave differently in the dough and provide varying textures. The chips do not melt, while the chunks do. For me, homemade chocolate chip cookies always…

I don’t have a grill at my house, so seeing a grilled asparagus recipe seemed like a great thing to do, let alone for breakfast! Not sure if this was intended for a breakfast dish, but it really is perfect for groups and relatively easy to prepare. No special sauces or prep needed, aside from poaching eggs, nothing else really too tricky in the recipe. For some reason the dish just kind of works. The salty prosciutto, richness from the runny egg, freshness of the grilled asparagus, and the crunch of the croutons all meld together into a cohesive dish. Plus you can use that huge serving dish tucked in…

Hazelnuts, white chocolate, what’s not to like in a cookie? After the english muffins were such success from Model Bakery, I wondered what else could I make. Naturally I started looking straight at the cookie section and saw these beauties. The amount of white chocolate in here is kind of ridiculous, and this recipe makes HUGE cookies. As in you can only fit 5-6 on a baking pan at a time big. I was originally rolling normal size cookies and had way too much dough left over, so basically had to add another 1/2 cookie to each dough ball I already made to align with the recipe. Can you make…

Not sure who originally thought of this kind of cake, but what an idea. So, I honestly knew very little about this cake so I did a little digging about it’s history and according to the Alto Harley blog, “pineapple upside down cakes date back hundreds of years to when people would cook over oven fires with cast iron skillets. When they wanted a sweet treat, they would line the bottom of the pans with fruit, and pour batter on top. When the cake was ready, the pan was flipped over, revealing the gorgeous pattern of caramelized fruit on the top.” It’s a nice change up from traditional cakes, and…

Homemade English muffins sound pretty cool right? What if I told you that Oprah has these flown in from Napa Valley fresh, do I have your attention now? Also, she listed them on her favorite things list for 2016. Ok, so these mean business. The Model Bakery has been open since 1908 serving the Napa Valley and is a staple. One thing about these English muffins is that they are nottt cheap, $40 gets you a dozen muffins and a jar of preserves. $40!!! The Model Bakery cookbook is $20, and you can buy the ingredients for the extra $20 to make them all at home, perfect for us! In…

Even when baking at altitude, this was the best loaf that I have made so far. If you know about dutch crunch, you almost never pass on if it is available when getting a sandwich. Sometimes a little hard (understandably), but when fresh, OMG. A perfect combo of fresh, yet crunchy, and exactly what you are looking for in a sandwich roll. The origins are in fact Dutch, as they have the earliest discussions of a type of bread that includes a rice flour topping (which is what gives the bread its signature look) from the Netherlands. But they call the bread Tiger Bread there, which also makes sense based…

This is not a traditional dumpling, but I don’t know if I want to go back after these. Head chef and owner Danny Bowein said that he has historically had a bad experience with dumplings. So he set out to go and make his own breaking away from tradition. To improve the wrapper, he followed after Italian footsteps, minus the eggs. If you have made any of my stuffed pastas, you will see how similar the process is besides rolling out the dough. He landed on 00 Flour because he was looking for a similar chew in pasta, which is similar that you want in dumplings as well. After 00…

Welcome to the Altitude Series! The next few posts were all done on a little get away in Tahoe over 10 days. For me, there aren’t too many meals that rev my engine like fresh, hand-made, stuffed pasta (or fresh pasta in general), and this corn and crescenza cappelletti really does the trick. There are so many components to each dish, and although it may take time, the actual actions of making stuffed pastas are generally not that difficult. The end result is extremely satisfying because of the amount of hard work and effort you put into actually making each one near perfect. Cappelletti is another great style of stuffed…