Stylish Cuisine

Soft Batch Dark Brown Sugar Coconut Oil Cookies

StylishCuisine — Fri, 17 May 2013 02:54:10 +0000

These cookies don’t look particularly spectacular, but I found their taste to be unbelievably delicious. I have never baked cookies using coconut oil before, and I’m now hooked. The oil provides a very subtle coconut flavor that goes very well with the molasses and dark brown sugar.

These cookies are soft. Pleasantly so. I was always [...]

Coconut-Crusted Shrimp

StylishCuisine — Wed, 15 May 2013 21:09:09 +0000

I made this dinner the other night in 30 minutes. No kidding. It was really quick. That said, I started with shrimp that had been deveined and shelled, so that was already taken care of. These days, I only buy shrimp that have already been cleaned and shelled. Costco sells them frozen in 2 pound [...]

Sweet Potato and Sausage Soup

StylishCuisine — Fri, 10 May 2013 01:07:45 +0000

Sometimes I make a soup and it immediately displaces all others as my favorite. This is one of them. It’s now at the top of my list. I knew from the ingredient list that it had great potential, but in this case the whole is definitely greater than the sum of its parts.

Instead of Italian [...]

Chocolate Sheet Cake with Delicious Vanilla Frosting

StylishCuisine — Sun, 05 May 2013 18:19:51 +0000

I have been intrigued for a while now by a recipe that has been touted on numerous blogs as, “the best vanilla frosting I’ve ever had!” The recipe looked a little odd because it contained flour that has to be cooked. I’ve never heard of flour in a frosting recipe, but yesterday I decided to [...]

Provençal Cherry Tomato Gratin

StylishCuisine — Sat, 04 May 2013 21:27:56 +0000

I served this dish for a dinner party a couple of weeks ago, but we inhaled every last bit of it so I didn’t get a photo. Technically, I didn’t make it. My friends had to make it because although my husband and I love to entertain, I don’t think I’ve ever thrown a dinner [...]

Braised Coconut Spinach and Chickpeas with Lemon

StylishCuisine — Thu, 02 May 2013 04:05:39 +0000

We try to have meatless Mondays in our home and last Monday was no exception. It makes my son the vegetarian very happy. He never likes to eat things like this, he’s just happy that we’re not hurting any animals.

I am always drawn to recipes that stew vegetables in coconut milk. Yum! I made a [...]

Salted Chocolate Caramels

StylishCuisine — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:08:06 +0000

I love caramels. I love chocolate. The two together? Delicious.

Making caramels is not hard if you have the right tools. You’ll need an 8″ x 8″ square metal pan, parchment paper and a candy thermometer. You won’t be able to make the caramels without a thermometer because you have to let the candy boil until [...]

Pumpkin Cake Doughnuts

StylishCuisine — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:53:49 +0000

On the way home from Maine last summer, we stopped at the Stonewall Kitchen store. We had a delicious lunch and walked through their beautiful store. I was tempted by a box of their doughnut mix which came with a doughnut pan. Their doughnut mix, like all of their other products, was delicious. After using [...]

Sour Cream Coffee Cake with Chocolate Cinnamon Swirl

StylishCuisine — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:24:51 +0000

I’m a big fan of crumb cake for breakfast. My favorite part is the crumb topping, but the cake part isn’t bad either. I saw this recipe and was grabbed by the title. Anything with a chocolate cinnamon swirl is right up my alley.

This coffee cake reminded me of something that you’d buy at Starbucks. [...]

Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

StylishCuisine — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:12:20 +0000

The triplets just celebrated their birthday and I made these cupcakes for one of my son’s classes. He asked for “Worms in Dirt” cupcakes. This (above) is how I frosted them prior to adding the worms (crushed chocolate wafer cookies) and dirt (gummy worms). The after picture is below. He was so happy and [...]