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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…

Croissant Sausage Stuffing

Forget everything you thought you knew about stuffing. This Croissant Sausage Stuffing– with its ultra-buttery, herbaceous flavors and flaky, fluffy layers– is changing the Thanksgiving game. CROISSANT SAUSAGE STUFFING I’m a carb fiend by nature, so Thanksgiving, with its glorious mounds of mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, and (most importantly) stuffing is a day straight…

Monte Cristo Crepes

The classic sweet and savory sandwich gets transformed into the perfect rolled-up breakfast in the form of these Monte Cristo Crepes. Stuffed with ham, cheese, and a raspberry-dijon mixture, then dipped in egg and pan-fried in butter, they’re as full of flavor as they are impressive when served for a brunch get-together. This recipe for…

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…

Sweet Potato Chorizo Chili with Poblano-Avocado Crema

Sweet Potato Chorizo Chili with Poblano-Avocado Crema. If you’ve never added potatoes to chili before, prepare to be wowed by the heartiness of this intensely flavor-packed chili. There’s a reason I’ve been making this recipe for years! Every fall, my house goes absolutely soup-crazy. The second the slightest chill can be detected in the air,…

Sweet Mustard Pork and Potato Packets

Sweet Mustard Pork and Potato Packets. They say good things come in small packages. These tangy, sweet, and smoky pork chop foil packets prove it– and they’re extremely easy to make, to boot. This post is brought to you by French’s. All opinions expressed are my own. It’s summertime, and the living is easy, because…

Hatfield Easy Easter Pie

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #HatfieldEaster #CollectiveBias Some people call it Easter Pie or Italian Easter Pie. Others say Pizza Rustica. Then there are those who call it Pizza Pieno, Pizza Gaina, Pizza Chiena, or Pizza Chena. Would a pie by any other…

Bacon-Wrapped Stuffed Beer Bratwurst

This post is sponsored by Smithfield, who noticed my ongoing brat-obsession and decided to help make these bacony bratwursts possible. I wasn’t sure if I should post this recipe or destroy it immediately, because I’ve gotta be honest, it’s going to ruin run-of-the-mill grilled sausage for you. Once you’ve had Bacon-Wrapped Stuffed Beer Bratwurst you can…

Jalapeño Popper Pigs in a Blanket

Jalapeno Popper Pigs in a Blanket are everything you could want in a snack. These spicy, cheesy appetizers are perfect for your next party or game day! These spicy, cheesy appetizers are perfect for your next party or game day! Narrowing down my Super Bowl menu has been next to impossible this year. Not only…

Prosciutto-Wrapped Pork Loin with Apple & Rice Stuffing

This post is sponsored by the jolly fellows over at Minute® Rice. Don’t work yourself into a tiffy over it, though. All thoughts and blooming brilliant opinions are my own. And I definitely always talk like this. Well aren’t I just the most elegant of food bloggers today with my nice wine glasses and beaded cloth…

Cheesy Pineapple-Habanero Bacon Dip

I trust you’ve pulled through your tryptophan-induced coma, and that’s why you’re here today, searching for something to shake things up after a week of Thanksgiving flavors. Friend, I feel ya. How’s Cheesy Pineapple-Habanero Bacon Dip sound to you? Personally, my fancy is so tickled by the 3 types of cheese, caramelized fruit, smoky cured pork, Caribbean…

Jamaican Jerk Pork Chops with Curry-Spiced Sweet Potatoes and Mango Salsa

I’m not nearly the only one who snuck off with the cordless phone as a child and dialed in with high hopes for my future, enticed by the woman on TV who insisted in her (faux-) Carribbean accent that I “Call Now For A Free Reading!” Free was an interesting choice of words, of course, as…

Nachos Al Pastor

I make no claim to the title of Nacho Elitist; I’ll eat ’em even if they’re microwaved, smothered in fake cheese, and soggy-bottomed– they are nachos, after all. But I do have to say that sometimes you have to splurge a little and do nachos the right way, and yes, there is a right way. The Right Way™…

Smoky Shrimp Pasta Salad with Chipotle-Honey Vinaigrette

This Smoky Shrimp Pasta Salad with Chipotle Dressing is about to make a lot of people reaaaal popular this summer.

Jalapeño Popper Chorizo Taquitos with Creamy Avocado Sauce

I originally made these Jalapeño Popper Chorizo Taquitos with Creamy Avocado Sauce to prepare for my Cinco de Mayo / birthday party. I figured I could make them now, freeze them, and be ahead of the game for once. Like that would ever happen.

Pizza Bowls

For someone who lives so close to NYC (and whose tastebuds have been blessed with the presence of truly amazing pizza many, many times throughout her life), I am shockingly yet unabashedly not a pizza purist. That’s not to say that I believe all crusts are created equal, nor that toppings should be piled on with reckless…