Chocolate Bailey's Pudding Tart

I never thought making homemade refried beans [with bacon!] could be SO EASY!

Steamy, spicy chana masala - a fast, cheap, and easy chickpea curry to warm you up on a winter night!

Date and Walnut Bliss Bombs ~ moreish but healthy. Go figure.

Preserve the seasonal citrus flavors by canning some Tangerine and Vanilla-Bean Marmalade. If I can do it, you can do it!

so Valentinesy - heart shaped muffins made with chocolate chips and cherries - yum!

John & Kira's hand painted chocolate red lady/lovebugs, each one unique, and filled them with a delectable dark Valrhona 64% chocolate ganache... and adorable packaging with letter pressed label.

Banh Bao - baked or steamed, either way, still delish and comforting

Broccoli with Cheetos. There's no way it could taste good, right? No. Or could it? It couldn't! Could it?!

Chocolate chip cream scones. Start your morning with these easy to make scones that can bake while you shower.

Hot Reuben Dip

It only takes 4 ingredients to make this roasted tomato soup topped with a Parmesan crisp.

ooey, gooey fried mozzarella, the perfect gameday bite

Peanut butter and chocolate all dressed up in an entremet with a biscuit joconde imprime wrap around. Texture galore layers of mousse, cremeux, feuilletine, dacquoise and ganache.

These Slow Roasted Strawberries are a great way to rescue berries that are past their prime.

L.A. Burdick Rum Flavored Chocolate Cigars, half dozen in a wooden box. Rum-flavored ganache cigars are enrobed in milk and dark chocolate and look like the real McCoy!

Glorious Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms

Simple winter salad with blood orange vinaigrette

Apple Upside-Down Cake - Warm apple cider cinnamon sugar caramelized apple slices adorn the upside-down top of a light and airy vanilla cake.

Red curry beef with mushrooms, red pepper and cilantro.

A michelada goes down especially well on a hot sunny day or while enjoying a football game and eating some spicy Mexican food.

Super simple Lemon Cheesecake.

Roasted Butternut Squash Salad. ~ Vibrant watercress meets sweet squash and a bright pesto dressing!

Chinese Hazelnut Cookies - a slight twist to the popular Chinese New Year peanut cookies.

Meyer Lemon Almond Cake with Lemon Glaze

Roasted Vegetable Baked Ziti for a warm winter meal.

Tangy Avocado Chutney - an Indo-Mexican Twist !!!

Orange-Infused Roasted Green Beans and Red Peppers, simple and amazing!

Tanks of liquid nitrogen! Kitchen Aid Mixers! Swings! Lab coats! ICE CREAM! So many awesome elements come together at Chin Chin Labs, Europe's first Nitro Ice-Cream Parlor in Camden, London.

Orange Passionfruit Curd Tartlets -- luscious tangy-sweet curd + crunchy poppyseed crust = love at first bite!

Chappathi wrap ~ A Sicilian wrap with pickled eggplant fresh mint and coriander leaves.

The Guardian's Tony Naylor visits Heston Blumenthal's new London restaurant, Dinner.

Nile Perch with Spicy Cashew Pesto, Cause you need to eat more fish, says the USDA!

Eggs for breakfast! One of 7 tips for how to enjoy your food and lost weight.

It's the eve of Lunar New Year. Have you made your pineapple tarts? These melt in your mouth with a tang!

Roasted Tomato Soup ~ A delightful soup that will warm any belly.

One bite steak with frite and shallot jam - my amuse bouche for this month's Kitchen Play.

Vegan chickpeas soup

Chocolate, Orange and Avocado Mousse Entremets with chocolate Jaconde Imprime

Crab Cakes with Mock Aioli

Banana choc-chip muffins - think stockings and suspenders under a demure business suit ;o)

Kitchen Corners has an underwater cooking photo shoot

My creations at Le Cordon Bleu!

Cherry "Ripe-Off" Candy Bars ~ Cherry preserves, chopped sour cherries and coconut formed into bars and covered in chocolate: our spin-off of the Australian candy bar Cherry Ripe.