chicken with mustard mascarpone marsala sauce

Tonight I made a pasta sauce that was out of this world good.

Like the title says, I made the sauce with dijon mustard, mascarpone cheese, and marsala wine. The sauce also included white onions, cremini mushrooms, garlic, and fresh parsley. It was so creamy and delicious. I will definitely make this dish again!

chopped salad with salsa verde dressing

Tonight for dinner I made something unlike anything I have ever made before with ingredients I have never used before. And it was unbelievably delicious.

I made a chopped salad with salsa verde dressing. The salad included romaine lettuce, green cabbage, tomatoes, jicama, corn, avocado, and a little feta cheese. I made the salsa verde dressing by pureeing tomatillos, cilantro, lime juice, jalapeño chile, garlic, green onions, and a little vegetable oil. Before this recipe, I had never cooked with jicama or tomatillos before, and I am now obsessed with both. The light sweetness of the jicama and the mild sour flavor of the tomatillo really made the salad great. This salad was really healthy and still BURSTED with flavor! It was so good.

dark chocolate cupcakes with chocolate cream cheese frosting

I am on vacation in Florida and tonight, Casey and I had an extreme chocolate craving. We drove to the nearby icecream shop but there was a long line that we did not want to wait in! So, I decided it would be fun to satisfy our chocolate craving through baking something delicious! At Northwestern, there is a great new cupcake place that serves chocolate cupcakes that are out of this world. They use cream cheese in their chocolate frosting which sounds a little bit odd but it is in fact one of the most delicious things I have ever tasted. I attempted to replicate these cupcakes and they turned out REALLY well!!

Unfortunately, I did not have an icing squeezer so I had to spread on the icing by hand and it looks sloppy. However while pretty ugly, these cupcakes tasted beautiful. They are decadently rich and chocolatey. I love love loveee them. Something interesting to note: while of course the cream cheese is not vegan, the cupcakes themselves are (I did not use any eggs). They had just as much flavor as any non-vegan cupcake I have had. mmm these were so wonderful! I may go eat another one now...