Homemade peanut butter cups (and s’mores cups, too!)

Mmmm, hot stuff! Fresh jalapenos and Serrano chilis are key ingredients in my Fiery Green Hot Sauce.

How to Make Stovetop Espresso. It’s strong and oh-so-tasty!

Warm Beet Salad with Orange Vinaigrette

Gentlemen’s Brownies with Scotch-Infused Frosting

Deep-fried chicken fingers with crispy Cheez-It crust.

Testing a potato’s “mashability” for Creamy Mashed Parsnips & Potatoes

Crispy Roast Duck with Spicy Molasses Soy Glaze.

Buttermilk Spice Cake with Cream-Cheese Frosting. (Is it so wrong to want to swim around in cake batter?)

Oreo & Irish-Cream Milkshake. Ice cream cocktail, anyone?

Tomato paste helps create a deep flavor base for Rustic, Family-Style Pork with Red Sauce.

Hard-boiled eggs? How about *hardly* boiled eggs? Now that’s more accurate. (And that’s also the secret to perfectly cooking them.)

Pomegranate-Orange Sorbet. It’s a little sweet, a little tart–and has heady orange notes from a generous drizzle of Triple Sec.

Short Ribs Braised in Red Wine. This is low, slow, fall-off-the-bone, fork- tender business.

Sweet and juicy blood orange cocktail.

Sea scallops are seared in thyme-infused butter, then drenched in white wine. It’s a fast, fresh, and easy weeknight meal.

Make your own marshmallows, then dip them in chocolate!

Deep-fried ravioli! They’re oh-so-crispy on the outside, and oozing with creamy, molten cheese on the inside.