Sweet and Smoky Bacon Jam. Brown sugar, cayenne pepper, smoked paprika, coffee, apple cider vinegar, caramelized onions and of course, LOTS of bacon give this spread addictively deep, smoky, spicy, sweet, and salty flavors. You’re going to want to spread it on everything– consider this fair warning. I don’t know what I love more– the…
Strawberry Champagne Trifles with Champagne “Caviar”
Strawberry Champagne Trifles with Champagne “Caviar”. These layered desserts feature strawberry jam, crushed ladyfingers, champagne-soaked strawberries, an easy mascarpone cream, and gelatin strawberry-champagne spheres that are just as fun to make as they are to eat. All together, the trifles make for the perfect New Years Eve or Valentines’ Day dessert. We’re a few days…
Pesto Chicken Cheesy Tarte Soleil (Puff Pastry Sun Tart)
Pesto Chicken Cheesy Tarte Soleil. Baked brie or camembert and pesto-loaded ground chicken are baked in puff pastry to create this pull-apart party appetizer. It’s December 20th today– do you know what that means? Sure, yeah, Christmas is only 5 days away, (oh wow, typing that makes it so much more real), but more importantly*,…
Honey-Glazed Hasselback Butternut Squash With Parmesan Breadcrumbs
Honey-Glazed Hasselback Butternut Squash With Parmesan Breadcrumbs. This fall and winter dish has it all: thin crisp slices, tender flesh, a sweet and garlicky glaze, and crunchy pistachio and parmesan breadcrumb topping. This recipe for Honey-Glazed Hasselback Butternut Squash with Parmesan Breadcrumbs was also featured on Serious Eats. Four years ago, a surge of recipe videos,…
Color-Changing Slushy Margaritas
Color-Changing Slushy Margaritas. This recipe uses a secret ingredient to create color-changing blue ice. It’s also perfectly slushy with no blender required! Neatly cut and quietly chew? Stop mixing everything around on my plate? Dinner isn’t time for science experiments? Stop plopping spoonfuls of my meal into my water cup? WELL MOM, LOOK AT ME…
French Onion Blooming Bread Bowl
Oh blogger’s block, you incredibly frustrating, beautiful beast.
5 Ingredient Bacon Wrapped Bratwurst Bites
This blog might, in all honesty, solely exist as an excuse for me to make a endless cheese-stuffed or buffalo chicken-covered or bacon-wrapped recipes– to bring my billions of slightly-sinful snack ideas to fruition– and eat them in the name of “taste-testing” on random Tuesday mornings instead of having a balanced breakfast. I know it’s…
How to Host a Homegate
Thank you NFL for sponsoring this post. Can’t wait for my next Homegate! I’ve been hosting football parties since before I knew what a touchdown was. Or I guess I should say that my dad was hosting them back then (since I was a baby and all), but you know, I was hosting by…
Loaded Pull-Apart Breakfast Bread
This Loaded Pull-Apart Breakfast Bread is sponsored by Smithfield (and in my heart, co-sponsored by my sincere and unwavering love of all things bacon-related). I don’t know that there’s ever a bad reason to make a bacon-y recipe, but lately I feel like I’ve got a lot of excellent ones. To name a few: It’s…
Grilled Chicken & Peach Saltimbocca Skewers
This recipe has also been featured on Serious Eats. I made the mistake of telling James that peach season will be ending soon. It started with the simple suggestion that he might like to buy a couple while they’re still juicy and ripe. He’s got a weak spot for peach-habanero salsa and brown butter peach…
Creamy Sun Dried Tomato Basil Bean Dip
It used to be that if you said the words “bean dip” to me, my mind would immediately go to Mexican-spiced refried beans, all warmed up so that the cheese is perfectly melted and oozy over chips. But now that– as Nelly would so eloquently say– it’s getting hot in here, the idea of keeping dips warm for a…
Slow Cooker Jambalaya
I missed the perfect window to post this recipe, I know, I know. But wouldn’t it figure that I didn’t start craving jambalaya until the day after Mardi Gras? So here I am, two weeks into May, proclaiming “better late than never” in-between mouthfuls of leftover Slow Cooker Jambalaya. Realistically though, can there ever be a bad…
One Pot Chicken Cordon Bleu Alfredo with Toasted Breadcrumbs
Did you have a lovely, food-filled Eater? I did, and now I’m overloaded with more jelly beans than I know what to do with, a carton full of hard-boiled eggs, and a fridge stacked high with various leftover-filled plastic containers. I’m not sure how I’m ever going to get through all of this stuff. Are you right…
One Pot Creamy Chicken Marsala Pasta
Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped-turned upside down. And I’d like to take a minute, just take a seat, I’ll tell you how to make an easy dish everyone will want to eat. Iiiiiin a really large pot, with the burners ablaze, and boiling water, is where my pasta…
Bacon Egg & Cheese “Everything” Egg Rolls
When it comes to breakfast, I’m the worst. It’s probably easy to imagine that I wake up every morning to make myself omelettes stuffed to the max with fresh veggies and melted cheese that oozes out of the folds like a little egg volcano. And being that homemade meals are kinda my thing, there are always plenty of…
Maple Bourbon Brown Butter Peach Pie
I’m firmly convinced that there is no better dessert in this world than Maple Bourbon Brown Butter Peach Pie. Yes, I said it. I, the fruit skeptic, the haphazard baker, the Thanksgiving-dessert-skipping monster (seriously, who turns down a slice of warm apple pie?!) made this pie twice in one week. It was just that delicious. And…
