Baking and Cooking Blog – Evil Shenanigans

Char Siu Bao – Chinese Pork Steam Buns

   When my husband was little his mother, who is from Taiwan, would take him along on her shopping expeditions to Chinatown in his hometown of Chicago.  As a treat, she would buy him char siu bao, or Chinese BBQ pork steamed buns.  I believe food can create memories, and passing a Chinese bakery one [...]

Chocolate Chip Cupcakes

First a bit of something fun!  I would like to thank Jess and Lyns at All Things Cupcake  who selected me as one of the Cupcake Talent Picks of the Week!  All Things Cupcake features loads of beautiful cupcake pictures, as well as other awesome cupcake related items.  Check it out, and thanks again for choosing [...]

Lime Bars

   My husband loves key lime pie, but the filling is rich with all those egg yolks and sweetened condensed milk and he is not really into rich foods.  One Saturday I was watching an episode of Everyday Baking on PBS which featured a recipe for Lime Squares with Pistachio-Graham Crust.  They looked good, and with less [...]

Curry Crusted Chicken Thighs

I love Indian flavors, but I don’t always have the time, or the foresight, to marinade a bag of chicken for a day or two during the week.  Some nights I need curry, and I need it fast.  This recipe is perfect because it take about five minutes to prep but yields chicken that tastes [...]

Apple Rolls with Butterscotch Whiskey Sauce

    We are apple people at my house.  Of course, as with anything, I am picky about apples.  No mealy or mushy apples need apply.  I want my apples frim, crisp, tangy, and sweet.  Granny Smith and Fuji are my two favorites.  So, when I have apples around, which I do more often than [...]

Naan

For the most part, I have had a lot of luck with bread recipes.  If it does not work out the way I want on the first try I begin the tweaking process.  It is not always fast but I get there in the end.  I say for the most part because I have had one bread [...]

Cream Filling for Cupcakes

This recipe is not specifically for cupcakes, but it is REALLY good in cupcakes. I found a recipe on the most excellent blog Nosh With Me for Oatmeal Cream Pies.  I loved those plastic wrapped cookie sandwiches when I was a child so I knew I had to try them.  The pies were good, but it was the [...]

Cheese and Onion Enchiladas with Chili con Carne

I live in Texas and have a shameless addiction to Tex-Mex food.   I grew up on the stuff and from an early age remember going to restraunts that served dishes of fragrant, spicy food and warm, soft tortillas. Among the things I love most are cheese and onion enchiladas.  Now, most places serve them with [...]

Flourless Chocolate Cake

If you love chocolate then this recipe is the one for you.  My husband, who used to work in restaurants, would make this for me years ago when we were dating.  I found his old book of formulas and remembered how good this simple cake was and decided to go about making it.  His formula was [...]

Flour Tortillas

When I was growing up in South Texas we had this neighbor who would, on Saturday afternoons, make her tortillas for the week.  Believe me, I made friends with her children so I could make myself available for tortilla day.  I think she enjoyed my enthusiasm and always had a few extra tortillas for me to [...]