Recipes

Healthy mexican rice skillet. Good over sweet potatoes or chips.

Quick rising pizza dough that is ready to go in the oven after 25 minutes!

Basic sourdough bread recipe and schedule. Takes about 2 days to complete, start to finish.

This is one of my FAVORITE holiday recipes. Our family loves to eat it with chips or crackers. We make it at thanksgiving as well. It is very pretty and “Christmasy” looking.

Drink that Cass and Jordan discovered in the Virgin Islands. A twist on the Piña Colada, the Painkiller is a rich and fruity cocktail that stays true to its name: It will cure what ails you. Made with dark rum, pineapple juice, orange juice and cream of coconut, the drink was created in the 1970s at the Soggy Dollar Bar in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), where the confluence of warm temperatures and vacation vibes necessitated cold, refreshing libations. And where, with no dock, dollars were bound to get wet as patrons swam ashore.

Orange mango drink that Cass loves.

Mom's delicious baked oatmeal recipe.

The vanilla boiled icing tops off the Red Velvet cake! This recipe came from Great-Grandma Viola Davis's baby sister, Verna Faye. It's an old family recipe. (Originally, when Grandma told Mom about the recipe, Grandma said she wasn't sure the butter went in it. Mom had a line on the original recipe that said "butter" but was crossed out. Later when comparing this to Paula Deen's recipe, Mom noticed the butter. Since then, the frosting has been smooth and not lumpy like early Rader family cakes.)

Mom's famous Red Velvet cake. This Red Velvet Cake with cooked frosting truly is the BEST red velvet cake I've EVER had - even better than a famous bakery's! Moist, fluffy and tender with supreme chocolate flavor. Pair it with the cooked frosting for authentic mom cake. Cream cheese frosting here is a Rader family sin. Look for the Red Velvet cake cooked frosting to finish this cake off in style.

This Korean Beef recipe is perfect for a quick, easy and flavorful dinner! Serve it over rice for a meal the entire family will love!

Serve with crusty artistan-style bread for a warming, simple meal. To make this soup vegetarian, use a meatless sausage and substitute vegetable broth for the chicken broth.

Make weeknight dinners exciting again with this quick, easy, healthy, and incredibly flavorful side dish! You'll never make wild rice from a box again!

A classic(ish) Neopolitan pizza margherita made with a sourdough starter as the leavening, instead of commercial yeast. This pizza has a super bubbly, soft, and lightly chewy crust. Topped with a fresh san marzano tomato sauce, a little bit of fresh mozzarella, and basil. Best of all, it can be done in your home oven with a simple pizza stone.

There is no substitute for perfect fresh hand-made tortillas hot off the comal. It's the key ingredient for a good old fashioned taco, and knowing how to make them will only do good things for you.

Piping hot and puffy from the oven, this golden pancake made a pretty presentation for a skier's theme breakfast I hosted. Served with homemade buttermilk syrup, it's an eye-opening treat. Make several German pancakes if you're feeding a crowd, and keep in mind that my easy syrup tastes great on waffles and French toast, too.