This is a winter cookie with warm spice, orange flavor, and dark chocolate to balance it off. The texture is like a classic chocolate chip cookie. I hope you like it. 3 cups flour1 teaspoon baking soda1/2 teaspoon salt1 teaspoon cardamom12 tablespoons butter1/2 cup sugar1/2 cup brown sugar1 egg1/4 cup orange juice1 tablespoon orange zest2…

This is a Chinese dish traditionally done with ground pork made into a meatball. I did an updated version of this Taiwan classic. I added scallops to the meatball; this gives the dish less fat and creates a lighter meatball. I used lite teriyaki sauce to reduce sodium along with low sodium chicken broth. Another…

Here is another hidden gem – it just opened three weeks ago in Fredericksburg, VA. They have 20 different varieties of bundt cakes which rotate from week to week. The cakes are not your grandma’s (certainly not my grandma’s) bundt cake; these have a donut texture and are more like a perfect sponge cake. Everything…

I’m late with this cookie – it’s really a fall cookie. I almost put candy corn on it, but you can only eat candy corn in the fall months. I replaced half of the butter with apple sauce, so it’s full of apple flavor. That is why it’s a “fluffy” cookie with a salted caramel…

My wife’s grandmother from Italy would make some traditional stuffed olives; they were very good. Though Grandma passed many years ago, my wife’s family still speak of them reverently, and the legend of them grew. After the passing of her aunt, all the cousins spoke about the all-day process it took to make them. Some…