• Cake Recipes

    Cowboy Beans – Nicky’s Kitchen Sanctuary

    These cowboy beans are hearty, smoky, and packed with flavour. Whether you’re cooking over an open fire or in your kitchen on the stovetop, these cowboy beans are sure to hit the spot. Simple ingredients coming together as easy comfort food. Baked beans, minced beef AND bacon? Sounds like the basis of a proper hearty dinner! It’s a one pot meal that’s brilliant for a cold rainy day. On those days that I feel I need a bit more colour in my meals (I suppose it is fairly orange) I quite like to serve it with a few green beans.…

  • Chef Choices

    This Is TASTE 474: Samantha Irby & Clare de Boer

    Samantha Irby is a humorist, a TV writer, and the author of an incredible new essay collection, Quietly Hostile. Clare de Boer is the chef-owner of Stissing House, a restaurant located in New York’s Hudson Valley that we like very, very much. The post This Is TASTE 474: Samantha Irby & Clare de Boer appeared first on TASTE.

  • Cake Recipes

    Creamy Mushroom Pasta – Nicky’s Kitchen Sanctuary

    A rich and comforting meat-free dinner of creamy pasta with lots of mushrooms. The sauce is luscious and thick, with a good sprinkling of parmesan (I’ve got an alternative for vegetarians), so it clings to the pasta beautifully.This creamy mushroom pasta is ready in 15 minutes, so it makes a great weeknight dinner when you need food fast! If you’re craving something rich and creamy, and more importantly, fast, for supper, this is the dish for you. I love a good creamy pasta sauce and the addition of mushrooms and garlic make this my perfect weeknight indulgence, and it’s on…

  • Dinner Recipes

    The Juiciest Chicken Comes Down to Grapes

    Grapes are most popular as a snack food, perhaps as part of a charcuterie spread or something fed to children alongside string cheese and a juice box. But if you’re not cooking this fruit, you’re missing out. Applying heat turns grapes soft and juicy, but rather than melting into a sauce or disintegrating into bits like softer fruits, they remain plump and substantial. Last year, I shared my recipe for an olive oil grape cake, but this time around, I’m here with a chicken recipe that features autumn’s own berry (yes, grapes are technically berries) in a savory spin: tangy…

  • Cake Recipes

    Buffalo Chicken Burger – Nicky’s Kitchen Sanctuary

    Crispy fried buttermilk chicken smothered in a spicy buffalo sauce and served on toasted brioche buns with cheese and pickles. Get your napkins ready! I can’t stop thinking about these crispy chicken burgers! The marinaded chicken is so tender and juicy. It’s coated in my go-to homemade seasoned flour-blend (many times tried and tested with several years working in a fried chicken shop through school and college) and fried until perfectly golden and crisp. Honestly, it’s hard not to stop and just eat it right there. If you did, I wouldn’t blame you. It’s that good. However….for this recipe we…

  • Top Cooking

    Apple Butter Crumb Cake – Broma Bakery

    Apple Butter Crumb Cake This website uses affiliate links which may earn commission for purchases made at no additional cost to you. A tender and moist coffee cake with a thick swirl of spiced apple butter in the center and topped with a fat layer of buttery crumb topping…what is not like?! This apple butter crumb cake is perfect for all your apple season occasions. What is apple butter crumb cake? I am SO excited to share this multilayered call coffee cake with you all! Made with layers of moist vanilla cake, spiced apple butter and a buttery crumb topping,…

  • Cake Recipes

    Homemade Hash Browns – Nicky’s Kitchen Sanctuary

    Homemade Hash Browns – an absolute breakfast favourite! Seasoned shredded potatoes shaped into perfect patties and fried until golden and crispy on the outside and soft and tender on the inside. You can tell just by looking at that photo how crispy these hash browns are. I kid you not when I tell you they were all gone within three minutes of telling the family I was finished with photographing them. I didn’t even get a chance to reheat them. They were just inhaled! They do take a little bit of effort to make (yes, you have to boil the…