Get my newest recipe via email:

Brilliant Guajillo Chile Salad Dressing

Tart and spicy, honey sweet and just a little bit smoky, this vivid orange-red guajillo chile dressing gives brilliant zing to salads. Paired with a rainbow of dark green arugula, white jicama and carrot matchsticks, and thin-sliced purple cabbage—we’re talking bling. Zing.

Guajillo Chile Dressing

This bright red orange dressing is a simple blend of easy-to-find guajillo chiles with honey, key limes, tequila and olive oil!

Click here to PIN this brilliant Guajillo Chile Dressing!

Continue Reading…

Authentic Mexican Red Enchilada Sauce

This is the brick red sauce that bathes and brightens stuffed and rolled tortillas, enchiladas. Mexican red enchilada sauce, or salsa roja, is a basic cooked not-too-hot Mexican sauce with deep earthy pure chile flavor. To make this blender sauce, you soak dried chiles, and then whir them in the blender with onion and garlic and spices.

Red Enchilada Sauce Salsa Roja

Click here to PIN Authentic Red Enchilada Sauce.

Continue Reading…

How to Cook Garbanzo Beans in a Pressure Cooker

Here on the blog, any time a recipe calls for beans, I like to talk about the timesaving value of pressure cookers. IMHO stove-top pressure cookers or electric pressure cookers like the Instant Pot are the only way to go when cooking beans. This recipe teaches you how to cook garbanzo beans in the pressure cooker!

cooked Garbanzo Beans How to Cook Garbanzo Beans in a Pressure Cooker

Click here to PIN How to Cook Garbanzo Beans in a Pressure Cooker.

Continue Reading…

Easy White Chocolate Mocha

Simply melt white chocolate with almond milk and instant espresso coffee powder–just three ingredients and you’ve got yourself a yummy white chocolate mocha coffee–a delicious treat for chilly days.

3 mugs of White Chocolate Mocha with red ribbon

On the specialty chalkboard at a local coffee shop, I noticed you could order a white chocolate mocha. Even without tasting, I knew I could make it better at home. Here’s my promise to you: this homemade white chocolate mocha is far better than any coffee shop brew.

A steaming cup of white chocolate mocha is a special winter indulgence, a sweet treat on a brisk cold day. This hot chocolate drink detours off the healthier path but it’s totally worth it!

Click here to PIN recipe for white chocolate mocha coffee!

Continue Reading…

Spicy Roasted Chickpea Snacks

These spicy roasted chickpea snacks fall into the bet-you-can’t-eat-just-one category. The chickpeas, aka garbanzo beans, are baked with a little olive oil and kosher salt until they’re crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside. Easy. 

Spicy Roasted Chickpea Snacks

Continue Reading…