Where Cooking Meets Photography
Welcome to the new and improved Candid Appetite site!! You might’ve noticed that this humble blog has gotten a bit of a (much needed) makeover. It’s about time, really. For a while now I’ve been wanting to update my little corner of the internet to really showcase the images and …
Sometimes I get tired of eating the same dishes again and again, week after week. When that happens, I always turn to a mash-up recipe. These 8 mash-ups are a great way to get out of that cooking rut and have some fun in the kitchen! 1. Italian Meatloaf A …
I’m back again with yet another meatball recipe for you (for us, really)! I don’t think I’ll ever stop trying to come up with new ways to reinvent them. I love meatballs because they’re extremely versatile, economical (due to the ground protein), and are usually super quick to put together, …
Nicaragua is known for several refreshing drinks, but my favorite would have to be this Nicaraguan Fresco de Cacao. It’s a milk based drink made with toasted raw cacao beans, rice, cinnamon, a bit of vanilla extract and granulated sugar. That’s it. It doesn’t get any easier than that. It’s …
I know what you must be thinking, “Jon, another bacon cheeseburger recipe?” I realize that I just recently shared these doughnuts the other week, but I couldn’t help myself. I don’t think I’ll ever stop trying to come up with new ways to reinvent the bacon cheeseburger. Some of my …
I have a serious problem with buying cookbooks and I keep telling myself that I don’t really need anymore but here I am still buying them because I can’t help myself. It’s an addiction, I’m convinced. So with all of the cookbooks in my collection I’ve promised myself to cook …
Full disclosure: Sometimes I post recipes on the blog solely for the selfish reason of wanting to eat it, and so I figure I’d share it on here just in case you want to eat it too. This time around I stumbled upon this Crispy Pea Fritter Salad in the …
Let’s all be honest with ourselves, none of us really need an excuse to eat pizza for breakfast. I mean, sure it helps to have a justifiable reason, but I’ll be the first to eat cold leftover pizza the next morning, straight from the fridge. There’s just something about it …
I was thumbing through my latest issue of The Food Network Magazine (my sister got me a subscription for Christmas) and I came across a recipe for lemon poppy seed coffee cake and it looked really good. Good enough to persuade me to make it. But then I thought that …
I always make a carrot cake for Easter every year. It’s usually this whole tiered cake situation with cream cheese frosting and little piped out carrots on top with chopped nuts on the side. It’s a big deal. This year however, I wanted to take an easier approach to the …
