American and Eclectic Recipes • Beyond Mere Sustenance

A pizza stone with a hot honey pizza with chicken and bleu cheese, pizza cutter, and hot pad.

American

In this category, you’ll find recipes with roots in New Orleans, in coastal U.S. communities, and in the desert Southwest. “American” cuisine is a fusion of the many cultures that make up this nation. This Cajun-inspired charred okra and shrimp is one of my favorite examples of American cuisine. It features Cajun flavors like thyme, Cajun spice mix, and gumbo filé, without the fat-laden roux. Or try a fusion pizza with hot honey, chicken and bleu cheese.

2 whisky and green tea cocktails with a bottle of Japanese whisky in the background.

Whisky and Green Tea Cocktail

A glass trifle bowl with passionfruit trifle, cloth napkin, and small wood bowl of toasted coconut.

Coconut Passionfruit Trifle

2 cachaca and passionfruit cocktails in red-rimmed rocks glasses with striped straws and lime wheels.

Cachaça and Passionfruit Cocktail

Two ahi tuna tostadas in mini paella pans with a colorful napkin and black fork.

Ahi Tuna Tostadas

A black plate with 2 smoked salmon tostadas, lemon wedges, and a bloody mary.

Smoked Salmon Tostadas

A live edge wood cutting board with to bloody mary cocktails with gin and tajín.

Bloody Mary with Gin and Tajín

A single Mexican burger on a toasted KETO bun with avocado, pickled onion, and tomato.

Healthy Mexican Burgers

A rustic white wood bowl with quinoa and arugula salad with dressing and pepitas.

Arugula and Quinoa Salad

A glass jar with pomegranate molasses dressing, and a handmade wood spoon on a cutting board.

Pomegranate Molasses Salad Dressing

Cinnamon ice cream scoop in a waffle cone with cinnamon cookies and cinnamon stick.

Extra Cinnamon Ice Cream

A cast iron skillet with the completed chicken thighs in blood orange juice with peppers and olives.

Mediterranean Blood Orange Chicken

Vintage cocktail glasses with brilliant red gin, pomegranate, and Campari cocktails.

Gin and Pomegranate Cocktail

A black plate with 3 spicy pork belly bites garnished with cilantro.

Spicy Pork Belly Bites

A pizza stone with a hot honey pizza with chicken and bleu cheese, pizza cutter, and hot pad.

Hot Honey Pizza

Two hot honey old fashioned cocktails in rocks glasses on a wood burl cutting board.

Hot Honey Old Fashioned

Hot honey sauce with a drippy wood spoon and an english muffin.

Hot Honey Sauce Recipe

A cheese ball with a wedge cut out, cheese knife, and accompaniments.

Mexican Cheese Ball

A small glass dish with a scoop of mango chamoy ice cream and a silver spoon.

Custard-Style Mango Chamoy Ice Cream

A beautiful whiskey and amaro Montenegro cocktail in a cocktail glass with bar ware.

Whiskey and Amaro Montenegro Cocktail

2 frozen custard ice cream cones in glass jars on a rustic wood tray.

Dulce le Leche Ice Cream

A wood cutting board, and 2 martinis with preserved lemon garnish.

Preserved Lemon Martini

Savory mashed sweet potatoes in a black stoneware bowl with pewter spoon, and grey napkin.

Spicy Savory Mashed Sweet Potatoes

2 coupe glasses with whiskey fernet sours.

Whiskey Fernet Sour

Arugula is topped with 2 savory french toast slices, and they're topped with poached eggs and garnished with fresh cilantro.

Savory French Toast