Seared (but still crisp) broccoli forms the flavorful base of this Charred Broccoli Salad with Hot Honey Dressing. With toasted pecans, sharp red onion, crisp bacon, tangy goat cheese, dried cranberries, and a sweet-and-slightly-spicy homemade hot honey dressing, this side dish has a little bit of everything for your cookout, dinner party, or lunch box. CHARRED...
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One Pot Lemony Pasta with Sausage, Broccoli Rabe, and Burrata
This quick One Pot Lemony Pasta with Sausage, Broccoli Rabe, and Burrata is absolutely loaded with bright and comforting flavors. It takes just 40 minutes to make and is the perfect easy date night-- or weeknight-- dinner. All pasta has the potential to be good pasta. It's an ol' reliable weeknight fall back, an "I'll grab the box...
30 Minute Chicken & Broccoli Tortellini Alfredo Bake
How I imagine the average food bloggers' dinner routine goes: She opens the kitchen windows to let the sunshine and smells from her garden soak into her house. She inhales deeply and smiles as she reaches for the vegetables she's grown herself, then slowly, precisely chops them as woodland creatures poke their little heads through the window to...
Chicken and Broccoli in Garlic Sauce
As you might know already from last week's Sweet and Sour Chicken and Loaded Vegetable Lo Mein, I'm on a takeout-at-home kick this month. When I first decided to do a series of quick, lightened-up versions of fast food and takeout meals, I wasn't sure of all the dishes I'd wind up trying to replicate, but...
How to Brown Butter
Browning butter is a simple cooking technique that transforms everyday butter into a flavor factory. With just a few minutes of stovetop simmering, you can bring out nutty, toasted notes that take everyday recipes to the next level. Learn how to brown butter properly to make decadent brown butter cookies, cakes, pasta and more. There's...
Roasted Spring Vegetable and Crispy Farro Salad
This Roasted Spring Vegetable and Crispy Farro Salad is the ultimate way to enjoy the season's best produce. It's loaded with a colorful mix of roasted veggies like carrots, asparagus, snap peas, radishes, and more, which get an amazing caramelized flavor! Then it's tossed with nutty crispy farro, peppery arugula, tangy feta, and a herby...
Homemade Hot Honey Recipe
Say hello to your new favorite flavor-booster: Hot Honey. This simple, 4-ingredient recipe takes no time to make, is fully customizable to your preferred heat level, and can be drizzled on everything from pizza to fried chicken. Soon you'll be swapping out all of your old peppery sauces for this sweet, spicy, and just slightly...
Foolproof Ricotta Gnocchi (Gnudi)
Did you know that you can make tender, restaurant-quality gnocchi at home in less time than it'd take for takeout to arrive? It's almost unbelievable that something as tasty and impressive as this ricotta gnocchi recipe could be so easy to make from scratch, but the ricotta base makes it foolproof, even for novice cooks....
Pretzel Crusted Chicken with Honey Mustard Sauce
Pretzel crumbs are the key to crispy, crunchy chicken cutlets that everyone will love. The homemade honey mustard sauce makes this Pretzel Crusted Chicken recipe even tastier. If breaded chicken cutlets didn't already resemble grown-up chicken nuggets enough, a big bag of Rold Golds is here to double-down on your childhood dinner fantasies. I'm talking...
Pesto Pasta
Pesto Pasta is one of those restaurant-worthy recipes that couldn't be faster or easier to whip up at home. But it also takes a tiny bit of know-how to do it the right way. Learn how to get the perfect coating of pesto to cling to your pasta without resorting to excessive amounts of oil...
Lemony Orzo Pasta Salad
This Lemony Orzo Pasta Salad features fresh and tangy ingredients inspired by Mediterranean flavors. Feta cheese, briny kalamata olives, cucumbers, chickpeas, and more are tossed with a bright lemon vinaigrette that packs in some major deliciousness. Eat your orzo salad as-is for a satisfying side dish, or add grilled chicken for a complete meal in...
Southwestern Pasta Salad
This zesty Southwestern Pasta Salad features all the best and boldest fixings. Bacon, jalapeños, black beans, corn, and more are dressed in a creamy chipotle ranch dressing that will have your whole party lining up for second helpings. Since I saw real, live humans that I don't live with for the first time in months...
Cajun Shrimp and Sausage Sheet Pan
This simple sheet pan dinner is filled with flavor (but low in carbs) thanks to andouille sausage and Cajun-spiced shrimp and vegetables. It's incredibly fast and easy for a weeknight dinner or meal prepping, and you can swap out the green beans, zucchini, and bell peppers for any veggies you have in the fridge! I'll...
Slow Cooker BBQ Pulled Pork
This slow cooker pulled pork recipe is extremely easy to make, but yields fall-apart tender, flavorful bbq pulled pork. It’s perfect for a stress-free dinner, or for serving at a party. (Who can complain when pulled pork sandwiches and pulled pork nachos are on the menu?) I’m not a food snob. I eat freezer meals...
Crispy Baked Carrot Fries
At only 170 calories per serving, Crispy Baked Carrot Fries are the perfect healthy side dish to satisfy your french fry cravings without the guilt. These surprisingly delicious, seasoned carrot fries are made without the hassle (and excess oil) of deep-frying, and they taste like sweet potato fries! FRIES MADE FROM CARROTS? If you had...
Chicken and Sweet Potato Skillet with Smoky Maple-Dijon Sauce
In this easy Chicken and Sweet Potato Skillet, tender-crisp chicken thighs are nestled into an autumn bounty of sweet potatoes, apples, onion, and bacon, then finished off with a finger-lickin Smoky Maple-Dijon Sauce.
Chili Garlic Noodles with Crispy Tofu
If you’re craving spicy Asian food, these Chili Garlic Noodles with Crispy Tofu are saucy satisfaction in a bowl. Make it a big bowl, by the way, because you’re going to want to load up. The noodles can be served hot, cold, or at room temperature and-- bonus-- they taste even better when made ahead...
Greek Pasta Salad with Sun Dried Tomato Vinaigrette
This super easy-to-make summer side dish beats store-bought pasta salad any day. Loaded up with Mediterranean flavors, Greek Pasta Salad with Sun Dried Tomato Vinaigrette is bright, zesty, and delightfully briney. Best of all, it'll come together quicker than you can say "Opa!" If you caught my recent recipe for Warm Chorizo Potato Salad, my apologies;...
Warm Chorizo Potato Salad
With a whisper of smoke and spice, Warm Chorizo Potato Salad is a Mexican-inspired spin on the German classic. Served with soft-boiled eggs and a chorizo vinaigrette, this mayo-free mash-up is best served warm. Â Â Â WARM CHORIZO POTATO SALAD When most people hear "potato salad", they think of the American picnic classic. You know, potatoes,...
Easy Enchilada Skillet
This Easy Enchilada Skillet is a one-pot meal that features from-scratch flavors. (Yup, there's no canned enchilada sauce in this one)! Loaded up with ground beef, beans, and corn tortilla strips; smothered in sauce and cheese; broiled until melty; and topped with tangy pickled onions and radishes, this dinner recipe has it all. Someone needs...
Grilled Avocado Balsamic Chicken
A sweet and tart balsamic vinegar marinade, melted mozzarella cheese, tender grilled chicken, creamy avocado, fresh basil, and a balsamic drizzle come together to create a delicious, easy-to-make dinner. Make this Grilled Avocado Balsamic Chicken on the grill on a summer evening, or on the stove top when it's chilly out. Your family is going...
Sheet Pan Chicken Piccata with Roasted Potatoes and Green Beans
If every meal could be this easy, I'd be a woman with a whole heck of a lot of free time on my hands. Or maybe I'd actually get all of my chores and errands done. Or maybe I'd waste even more time answering those internet quizzes that will guess my age based off of my favorite sandwich...
Sheet Pan Thai Peanut-Chili Chicken
As a well-established one-pot recipe fanatic, it should come as no surprise that their oven-based brethren, sheet pan recipes, have found their way into my heart. Place veggies, meats, sauces, and more on one tray, then simply roast away? Yeah, you know I'm in.
Crispy Cranberry-Herb Butter Butterflied Turkey with Roasted Vegetables
See all of those glorious blackened bits? I bet you can't make this turkey and not pick off some of those morsels to eat them before serving. Go on and try-- call it an impossible exercise in self-restraint. Just like with any "blackened" recipe, the charred bits on this Crispy Cranberry-Herb Butter Butterflied Turkey with Roasted Vegetables are the...
Loaded Mashed Cauliflower
You know what is absolutely disgusting? Cauliflower. ... Said I, 4 years ago. I was a vegetable-lover, but cauliflower, with it's mild-but-nutty-broccoliness, well it just grossed me out. But then! Then I realized that I'd been doing that whole cauliflower thing all wrong. When prepared correctly, it could be absolutely delicious. It could add extra fiber, vitamins,...
Mongolian Beef
You would think that a dish called "Mongolian Beef" would be, well, a Mongolian meal made of beef.  But we apparently have a tendency to just name things on a whim around here, and Mongolian Beef has absolutely nothing to do with Mongolian methods of cooking. Nada. Instead, it resembles the Americanized versions of Chinese food, which,...
Crock Pot Kung Pao Chicken
This time of year, the Crock Pot and One Pot recipes look more and more appealing.  I want as much flavor with as little effort as humanly possible when the holidays approach and the temperature plummets.  This time of year, I don't have the time or the energy to do much that doesn't revolve around Christmas...
Mom's Sloppy Joe Stuffed Peppers
When I first posted this recipe for Sloppy Joe Stuffed Peppers years ago, I knew it would become a favorite with my readers because it was already a favorite of mine. Of all of the recipes that I post on this blog, this one is undoubtedly the one I make most often. It's the perfect...
Crock Pot General Tso's Chicken
There are a lot of things that I've experienced over the years that I thought would be amazing but wound up being terrible ideas, like pregaming open bars, volunteering to do favors that I can't possibly fit into my schedule, or watching Juan Pablo be this season's Bachelor. (Seriously, by the end of the Finale...