With creamy brie, tart cranberries, and a crisp phyllo shell, our Cranberry Brie Canapés are the perfect addition to your next holiday party! I love hosting holiday parties, but I always get a little anxious around this time of year because of two little words: oven space. I tend to have massive amounts of food that require it, and never enough of it. Thankfully, I recently tried out the Cuisinart® Air Fry Toaster Oven, which lets me...
Perfectly crispy on the outside with a creamy inside, these Air Fryer Avocado Fries are terrific served alongside a simple spicy ranch dip. Avocado fries are the perfect mix of crispy and creamy. Who knew that when you take slices of avocado, bread them, and then fry them in an air fryer, you end up with a snack that's so good I still can't believe everyone isn't eating them all the time. If you like guacamole and chips, you’ll love...
Instant Pot French Onion Soup! French onion soup is comfort food at its finest. Rich, intensely-flavored broth and caramelized onions, topped with crusty, cheese-covered bread is sure to warm anyone on a cold winter’s night. Make this delicious soup in half the time by using your Instant Pot! French onion soup is a bistro classic for a reason—the combination of deeply savory, onion-packed broth and a cheesy browned crouton makes for a...
Crispy skillet chicken is cooked in a flavorful lemon broth and served on a bed of Swiss chard, potatoes, and carrots. This bistro-style oven braised chicken with vegetables has everything you love about cozy comfort food. While strictly speaking this is not a French dish, it has all the characteristics of a warm and cozy meal you could imagine having at a local corner café in France. If you can’t travel, you might as well eat like you...
Beyond serving this tangy, rich, and herbaceous chermoula relish with fish, meats, and veggies you can mix it with mayonnaise for dressing, yogurt for a dip, or top avocado toast with a smattering of it. It’s so versatile! Chermoula, also known as charmoula, is a marinade and relish popular in North African cuisine. It is at once tangy, rich, and herbaceous—though commonly used to flavor fish and other seafood, chermoula pairs equally well...
Shakshuka is an easy-to-make recipe where eggs simmered in tomato sauce are seasoned with cumin and smoked paprika. Top it with cilantro, feta, and olives then serve it for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Give me eggs any time of day because they’re the ultimate comfort food. In this one-skillet dish eggs and colorful red and yellow peppers simmer on the stovetop in a spicy tomato sauce infused with cumin and smoked paprika. A sprinkling of...
White beans and nutritional yeast give this polenta a creamy and cheesy taste, without the dairy. Add some roasted broccoli and a drizzle of chili oil, and you've got an easy, filling meat-free dinner! The cooler months always bring the comfort food out in full force. Pasta and casseroles are usually the big hit in my family. But for me, it’s all about the creamy polenta. During fall and winter, I’ve been known to eat a bowl that consists...
Two ingredients—smoked salt and smoked paprika—can make a big flavor change in this smoky vegan lentil stew. Serve with crusty bread and a green salad. When it comes to vegetarian and vegan cooking, lentils are a favorite ingredient of mine. Lentils are fairly inexpensive, and they're a total workhorse in recipes. I’ve been known to use them as a vegan sloppy joe base, make them into meatball-like bites, and put them to work in about...
Butternut squash, radicchio and onion roasted in the oven and tossed with olive oil, toasted pine nuts and grated cheese. Here's a wintery, festive side dish for your holiday table—cubes of butternut squash, along with wedges of radicchio and onion, tossed with salt and olive oil, and roasted in a hot oven until caramelized, then tossed again with toasted pine nuts, balsamic vinegar, parsley, and shredded Parmesan cheese. Wow! My tummy does a...
This hearty Three Sisters Casserole is made with corn, beans, and squash, and topped with cornbread biscuits. It makes a great meatless main dish or vegetarian side! I first heard of Three Sisters Casserole almost twenty years ago, back in the dining hall in my college dorm in Boulder, Colorado. This hearty casserole always made an appearance in the fall: a mélange of seemingly canned veggies with a cornbread topping. It wasn’t always the...
