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TastyThis casserole is the ultimate sweet potato indulgence! With a sweet and savory topping of crunchy pecans and gooey marshmallows, it's a dish that's sure to be a hit. It's like dessert and dinner rolled into one.Food52I’ve made my share of macaroni and cheese in the 1840 Farm kitchen. From the homemade to the (I’m sorry to say) character-shaped pasta shapes in cheese sauce the color of a dayglo orange construction cone. I’m hoping that you’ll find it in your heart to forgive me. I couldn’t help it. I live with a marathon runner and two children. Pasta for dinner is a necessity. Can you blame me? I prefer the homemade variety of macaroni and cheese. That wasn’t always the case. In fact, I have a vivid childhood memory of my grandmother making me macaroni and cheese from scratch during a visit to her home in New York. She proudly proclaimed that she was making me macaroni and cheese for dinner. Some time later, she presented me with a deliciously creamy pasta dish made with sharp white cheddar. I’m sorry to say that as a child from the midwest, all I saw was that it didn’t look like the blue Kraft box variety I was used to. The noodles were a different shape. The cheese was a different color and so sharp that it nearly knocked me off my chair. It was too much for my pediatric brain to accept. I don’t remember how much of my dinner I ended up eating that night. I do remember that my grandmother never made me macaroni and cheese from scratch again. She stuck to the blue box and saved her kitchen time for breads, pastries, and desserts. We were both happier. Now the joke is on me. It’s been too many decades for me to freely admit to and now I have a child who looks at homemade macaroni and cheese as if I am asking him to eat haggis. And getting back to the marathon runner and other child, they’d rather not eat pasta that comes with a side of angioplasty. So, how do you make a rich, creamy macaroni and cheese without just adding more and more cheese? Enter the carrot. Yes, you read that correctly. The carrot. With a very small amount of prep work, you end up with a lighter, healthier, dare I say better, version of the family favorite. And, as a bonus, thanks to the carrot, that incredibly rich orange color will be sure to follow. I’m not suggesting that you hide the carrots from your family although I know that this kind of Tom Foolery has come into fashion lately. Instead, I would encourage you to celebrate the astonishing fact that you could make macaroni and cheese that tastes this good using something so good for you. While it may serve me right that my son doesn’t appreciate this version (or any other) of homemade macaroni and cheese, I have learned my lesson. I don’t force him to eat carrotoni and cheese. He’s not ready for it yet. I’ll take my grandmother’s lead and stick to his other favorites when I’m cooking for him. I know he’ll come around, it just may take him a decade or two. This recipe is adapted from a recipe that first appeared in the April 2009 issue of Food & Wine Magazine and it has taken me several attempts to get it just right. While the original recipe calls for baking the dish in the oven, I find that baking the pasta leads to a drier macaroni than suits my taste. I prefer to skip the baking step and enjoy a creamier version of this dish. Either way, the end result tastes delicious.Food.comIn his Las Vegas restaurant, The Nine Fine Englishmen, Kevin Dundon serves this Guinness glaze in a dish mixed with olive oil for dipping bread into instead of butter. Pork loin cooked with this glaze sounded just too delicious not to share. I found this recipe in the March 2005 issue of the BBC Good Food magazine. It is part of Irish cook Kevin Dundon's suggested St Patrick's Day dinner menu. He serves this pork loin with colcannon and cabbage. As he says “I love buttered cabbage with this pork. Simply heat a knob of butter and cook the remaining finely shredded cabbage (the other half of the Savoy cabbage used in his colcannon recipe) for 5 minutes, so it’s still just a little crunchy.” I have already posted his side dish colcannon - Colcannon recipe #123663 - and his prepare-ahead starter - Smoked Wild Irish Salmon With Chive Pancakes recipe #123667. The preparation and cooking times provided below are my guesstimates. Kevin says that this dish will be "ready in 2 hours". Please mention your experience of cooking times if reviewing the recipe. I’ll also post his dessert for this St Patrick's Day menu: Sheridan’s Cream Sticky Pudding. All the dishes in this menu sound like any-time-of-year dishes to me! I certainly shan't be waiting until 17 March 2006 before making any of them!Food and WineSometimes called the vanilla of Southeast Asia, pandan leaves offer a sweet grassy note and faint nuttiness to both desserts and savory dishes. I’ve tasted their unique flavor in steamed rice at Southeast Asian restaurants, wrapped around grilled chicken and fish, and baked into a surprisingly delicious Thai-style durian custard. My favorite health spa even adds it to their water instead of cucumbers or lemons. But I find the leaves particularly delicious infused into creamy ingredients like coconut milk and dairy.This recipe is inspired by a trip I took to Vietnam and my resulting obsession with pandan tea. One day I was frantically putting together a menu for an impromptu dinner party, but I was stuck on what to do for the dessert finale. On this particular day I was sipping my late-afternoon cup of pandan tea (a souvenir from that trip) when the idea struck to steep some of the dried leaves into cream and make a pandan-flavored panna cotta.Panna cotta is my go-to quick dessert. It’s simple to throw together before friends show up and does its magical congealing thing in the fridge while the evening progresses. Aside from the ease in making it, I find the cool, ethereal lightness is really nice at the end of a big meal; it manages to be rich without being heavy. The key is to avoid adding too much gelatin—we’re going for just barely holding its shape and super jiggly here, as opposed to the springy texture of Jell-O.One of my favorite Thai treats is mango sticky rice, and the best version I know has pandan in the coconut sauce that’s spooned on top. With that in mind, I chose mangos for the topping for this pandan-scented dessert. March is prime Ataulfo—aka Champagne—mango season, so be sure to search them out. They are those smaller, kidney-shaped yellow mangos you’ll find at any grocer with a good produce section, but especially at Asian or Latin markets. With extra sweetness and richer flavor than other mangos, they’re perfectly delicious just diced—no need to macerate in sugar or employ other such tricks. But a sprinkling of crushed pink peppercorns on top does add pretty color and a little fragrant punch to complete the dish.I first tried this recipe with the dried pandan leaf tea I’d brought back from Vietnam, but stateside it’s easier to find frozen pandan leaves in the freezer aisle at Asian markets; they revive beautifully once thawed.YummlyCheesecake is a rich and decadent dessert that packs a lot of flavor and creamy richness in each bite. This recipe for New York Cheesecake for the Arrival of Philadelphia in France. This recipe combines the buttery richness of Speculoos cookies with white chocolate, cream cheese and double cream. Be sure to add this dish to your next holiday dinner so you can show your family how much you love them.YummlyRicotta cheese is a creamy and dreamy ingredient in both sweet and savory dishes. This recipe for Orange Ricotta Tart with Pine Nuts is a decadent dessert that is packed with palate pleasing flavors. Be sure to top with confectioner’s sugar and orange zest for added beauty. These are perfect sweet treats for any occasion. Be sure to surprise your family with these delicious desserts after your Sunday dinner. They will love you for it!Food52On a trip to New Orleans, my husband and I couldn't afford a whole fancy meal at Arnaud's but we did treat ourselves to dessert there in their beautiful front room, with leaded glass windows and black bistro chairs over the black and white tiled floor. We indulged in both Bananas Foster, a familiar favorite, and Cafe Brulot, a boozy coffee spiked with orange liqueur and infused with clove studded orange and lemon zest. In the restaurant it is a true show, with a tableside chafing dish full of your after dinner coffee, lit aflame and poured over a suspended orange peel (peeled all at once into one long corkscrew of rind in a way I can never manage), but at home I leave out the open flame for safety's sake. I started my version with browned butter, as if the recipe needed to feel even more luxurious! I can imagine enjoying this as a digestif after a filling Thanksgiving meal—adding it to my menu now. Enjoy!Taste of HomeWHEN OUR DAUGHTER was at Lehigh University, the school held a recipe contest for "old home-cooking" dishes. Tamie's meal won, and this recipe was part of the menu. For her prize, she was served her dinner in the university's Presidential Dining Room with five of her friends. It was an evening she'll always remember. -Nancy Walters, Ft. Myers, FloridaFood52Rich, toasty, and malty thanks to the addition of vanilla porter, this sauce is addictive enough to eat straight from the jar...but it's even better on top of gooey, fudgy, crackly-topped brownies and vanilla ice cream. I've become a fan of the dish as a dinner party dessert, both because you can make everything in advance (assembling the sundaes when you're ready) and because people get pretty excited when you plop one down in front of them. Don't skip the cacao nibs—the slightly bitter crunch really balances out the other elements, pushing the dessert from nostalgia territory to something grown up and new. (Psst, need a go-to brownie recipe? This one from Erin McDowell has never failed me.)
