My first attempt at Gougeres turned out really nicely.

Homemade dulce de leche starting with just milk and sugar. Sandwich it between a few butter cookies and you're ready for a slightly messy, but delicious treat.

Ditch the cans this year. Here's how to make a delicious green bean casserole from scratch!

Grilled Cheese with summer peaches, arugula, and Gruyere on sourdough. Hard to beat this!

Awesome buttermilk scones with fresh figs. You should probably make these!

Creamy risotto with homemade chicken stock and two kinds of tomatoes!

A smoothie for each color of the rainbow! Ok... blue has booze in it, but it still counts!

Soft red velvet cupcakes with yummy cream cheese frosting!

A remake of the Taco Bell chalupa that you can do at home! Very delicious.

Homemade pop tarts with a flaky crust and a strawberry preserve filling. Very delicious.

Yeast donuts with a chocolate glaze. These turned out light and airy. It's pretty hard to eat just one.

My first attempt at using "The Beast" (my slow cooker). This fantastic stew was the result!

Spicy shrimp and creamy cheese grits come together for the perfect comfort food.

I'm usually against frosting brownies, but this is one time that it works great. Coffee flavored frosting works great with the chocolate. Pile it on high and deep!

No knead bread baked with chunks of pecorino toscano. A very flavorful final loaf!

Homemade ladyfingers, bourbon, coffee, and mascarpone cheese make up this tiramisu. Good stuff.

Perfectly cooked kidney beans would be good by themselves but they also work great in a spicy winter soup.

A white pizza with mushrooms and hot sopressata. There are two other pizzas in this post!

My first try at potstickers. I'd consider it a success!

Deep dish pizza with a successful flaky crust! This almost made me a deep dish convert. Almost.

Pink peppercorn flank steak to be paired with roasted garlic mashed potatoes. A date worthy meal.

Homemade bagels. I skipped the toppings and just packed them full of cinnamon and raisins.

Bloody raspberry worms are tossed in a delicious Oreo dirt.

Salty Kalamata olives worked into a no knead bread recipe. Very delicious.

I'm normally a fan of chewy, raisin-filled oatmeal cookies, but I think that this crispy variation might be better.