Pimento cheese filled doughnuts with Old Bay seasoning.

A hearty and traditional dish, Brazilian black beans and rice, flavored with bacon, sausage, garlic, onions, and bay leaves.

Vegan Cardamom & Bay Infused Black Rice Pudding With Maple Glazed Pears

This spicy vegetable soup packs a special ingredient spicy kick. It’s a great way to get your daily dose of veggies and it’s vegan!

Easiest SHEET PAN shrimp boil ever! And it’s mess-free using a single sheet pan. ONE PAN. No newspapers. No bags. No clean-up!

Chicken Adobo is a staple in Filipino cuisine- so simple, so easy, and so amazingly delicious! It’ll become one of your favorite go-to’s!

Pot-sticker carrots with bay leaves. The carrots are caramelized and infused with aroma of bay leaves. So yum!

An Eastern Shore twist on paella. Chicken, chorizo, shrimp, and clams (instead of mussels) for my local spin.

Slow-simmered goulash soup is a great way to warm up on a cold winter weekend.

Addictively Delicious Cajun Pretzels

This is a quick and easy way to prepare homemade broth without worrying about processed sugar or other potentially unhealthy additives.

Cheesy, garlicky biscuits…with a hint of Old Bay. The perfect accompaniment to just about anything!

Smith Island Cake – Ten layers of golden goodness, slathered in a chocolate fudge icing. An Eastern Shore and Chesapeake tradition.

Briny oysters on the half shell with a tangy herb infused mignonette! They slide right down your throat!

Shrimp and crab fisherman’s pie – a seafood lover’s take on traditional shepherd’s pie!

Choucroute garnie is a French one-pot dish with sauerkraut, pork meats and white wine. Served with mustard. Ready in less than an hour.

A Dutch brown bean soup is a lovely classic winter soup. Perfect for those cold days, served with bread. Ready in 45 minutes.

These Maryland Style Crab Cakes are full of lots and lots of crab and ZERO pointless filler!

Autumn is perfect for all kinds of stews. This one is a recipe from my mom, a Camarenga beef stew with a hint of orange.

Hearty, tasty, and sure to be devoured this Old Bay Shrimp Boil combines potatoes, corn, sausage, shrimp and onions into a one pot dish.

My Mom’s Ratatouille (Paleo, GF)- a naturally Paleo healthy recipe

These better than restaurant crab cakes are packed with lump crab meat! They make a great appetizer or crab cake burger!