Food Recipes New - 2025

Shallot Crispies For Prez. Breaking news: from here on out, any creamy curry dish that I make will be needing a spoonful of shallot crispies on top. Holy smokes! This whole shrimp curry combo is SO yummy. Might be my favorite dish from the whole SOS series so far? Can I say that? It has incredible flavor from, like, 5 main ingredients. (I use this Thai Kitchen red curry paste and consistently love it. For yellow curry, I like Maesri .) Plus, if you can muster up a little bonus energy, those shallot crispies on top! Getting into all the saucy crevices! I can’t stop talking about them. Fried shallots are not new – they’re a known and loved Southeast-Asian style topping, but to my knowledge the addition of fried panko is just the slightly-weird iteration of a hungry home cook in Minnesota looking to take the shallot-y crunch even further. (She’s me.) The curry of my dreams: How it looks for my kids: I serve the shrimp curry and rice to the table so they always have t...

I’ve Made This Tofu 3x This Week. Sometimes eaten in a frenzy as a finger food at 5pm, but usually tossed on top of a creamy kale caesar salad like you see here – it’s bar food meets wholesome food. This buffalo tofu is way too easy. Just criminal. Zero batters and breading, zero cutting boards to wash. Just a two ingredient hot sauce + butter combo and a quick air fry or bake for the crispy tofu base. You can throw this tofu into a wrap or bowl, but lately what has really been floating my boat is just a big ol’ pile of this saucy tofu on top of a Caesar salad. My faves: The bagged Caesar from Trader Joe’s The store-bought vegan Caesar dressing from Trader Joe’s (it’s in the refrigerated section) This avocado kale caesar The buffalo sauce is too spicy for my girls, so I leave a few pieces for them without the sauce to dip in ranch or ketchup. And they love it. I made last tonight for dinner and I thought, I need to tell you to double this – we have a family of 4, wi...