This is one of my childhood favorites. It takes me back to Christmas time at Grandma's house, and the wonderful smell of perogies cooking in the air. My grandma always made sure I got to have a taste before anyone else, and that's a memory I keep close to my heart. I hope you all will try it! I promise, it won't disappoint.

A simple summer strawberry salad. No instructions needed!

Fish sauce and soy sauce are added to this rich pasta sauce to up that umami kick. Top the dish with lots of grated cheese for an ultimate umami bomb. My interracial family loves this, thanks to food fusion!

This dill pickle pizza hits all the right flavour notes. Use store-bought ranch dressing or make your own!

Created especially for the Beans Around the World Contest, here is the "Arepa Domino", one of the many ways we eat our arepas in Venezuela. Enjoy!!

Pasta e Fagioli is a traditional italian soup and consists of inexpensive ingredients. There are a lot of variations of this dish, due to the availability of the ingredients in the different regions of Italy. Dean Martin popularized this dish with his song „That’s Amore“ which includes the lyrics "When the stars make you drool, just like pasta fazool, that's amore".

This is one of my favourite beany recipes. Suitable for vegetarians also, this recipe is a great family meal. You can really use whatever beans you like, I've just illustrated a few of my favourites. (you could even use baked beans!)

This here is my mother's recipe for a breakfast casserole that she serves on Christmas morning. I look forward to it every year, and I was excited to share it via illustration. Enjoy!

Originally made for SCAD Illustration.

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No one likes reading an essay while cooking! And for me the measurements were always more like guidelines, so I created this recipe format, for like-minded chaotic cooks.

Homely, filling, scrumptious and MESSY! Not a recipe for those who cringe from dripping food and chaotic kitchen counters. Best devoured asap after cooking!

Something my Dad used to throw together for me when I was a kid (though with about 12x the amount of cheese). I've revived it as a staple lunch in my adult life... but it's never quite as good as his...

A tian is a type of french baking dish and is also the name for a vegetable casserole baked in that style of clay container. This is a recipe that my family has been enjoying for years! It's a fabulous protein-rich vegetarian dish with the addition of beans, cheese and eggs. I like to eat mine with a sprinkle of red peppers and lemon juice. Makes excellent leftovers too!

Something fun for vegetarian kids.. or adults!

I grew up in England and moved to the USA 12 years ago, one of the things I miss the most is this simple British staple of Heinz baked beans on toast. My mum would make it for me with toasted thick white bread, a generous spread of rich butter and smothered in Heinz hot baked beans, them she would grate sharp cheddar cheese on top and a little black pepper. Comfort food at its best. No matter where in the World I travel, it always feels like I’m home when I make this simple warming dish. It should be noted, they don’t sell Heinz brand baked beans in stores in the USA, so my friends know to bring me a can from the UK when they visit!

Variety of french cheeses

Still life of the diversity of artisanal cheeses

My favourite things to nibble at Christmastime, you ask? Abundant cheese boards|cheese balls|cheese cookies; spicy, bold chutneys|mustards|dips; crisp, salty crackers; garlicky, herbalicious mashed potatoes|Brussels sprouts|stuffing; any classic casserole laden with canned soup and crusted in crunchy breakfast cereal.....I LOVE SAVOURY, you dig? So, when it comes to my go-to snack for Christmas cocktail hour, nuts and bolts mix rules supreme. Toasty, crunchy, buttery....alive with the dark, mysterious Worcestershire flavour bomb and hot pepper twang of Tabasco.....and nostalgic with old school spices (garlic/onion powder, celery salt), typically sourced from jars that have been in the cupboard since the 1980s. Sit me in front of a fire, put a glass of wine in my hand and give me a bowl of this, you may never get rid of me.