1601. Savory Oatmeal Breakfast Bowl

For some reason oats are frequently used in sweet recipes, and they are just as capable of starring in savory ones. Rice is usually a savory component of a meal, but sweet rice pudding is very popular in may cultures. In this breakfast recipe, we are having savory oats for a change, plus some superfood sides to complement it. 

1600. Maple Pecan Cinnamon Rolls

I have one cinnamon roll recipe on MCW, and it is so good that I never saw the need of adding another. That one is yeast-leavened, this one is baking powder and soda leavened, making it more convenient and quicker to make. 

1599. Chicken Cheesy Pasta

This is a simple but gutsy pasta with plenty of garlic and oregano in a cheesy chicken white sauce.

1598. Cinnamon Toffee Cake

This cinnamon cake is a variation of my trusty basic cake recipe, vamped up with cinnamon in the batter and a toffee glaze on the finished product. 

Best of MCW 1201-1300

Welcome to the 13th Best of MCW installment, gathering the best recipes from a one hundred-recipe range on this blog that are time tested and made over and over again.

Kicking off with a simple pleasure of life, this fragrant sage tea recipe was picked up over a decade ago, when a Palestinian colleague prepared me my first cup in the pantry of our internship program. She used dried sage leaves, which is the norm. Palestinian sage, procured through Jordan, is the best you could get a hold of. 

1596. Pecan Lacy Cookies

 

These amazing cookies are shockingly easy to make, provided you adhere to cooling times and proper handling. They are a very brittle and extremely thin cookie, that are sandwiched with the best glue ever: chocolate. With time, they lose their brittleness to become gooey. That is my favorite stage.

1595. Baked Gruyere Dip

In the cheese world, you have the Swiss fondue, which is a molten pot of multiple cheese varieties which you dip bread, cold cuts, or cornichons in, and you've got queso fundido, which is a Mexican pot of other varieties of molten cheese using tortilla chips as the carrying vehicle. This baked gruyere dip is neither.

1594. Checkboard Cookies

My cute date chose to make these checkerboard cookies this time, and I gladly obliged. Similar to marble cake, the basic recipe makes a vanilla and a separate chocolate dough. This is accordingly divided and rolled into equal length ropes, and combined in a way to form a checkerboard rod. 

1593. Sumac Roasted Potato Wedges

Eons ago I posted a roasted sumac cauliflower recipe. I wonder what took so long to do the same for potatoes, since one replaces the other in a couple of cases in the first place.