I'm a firm believer that the best cookies are anything but firm. A soft, big, buttery, chewy cookie is the key to my heart, and these Soft and Chewy Lemon Sugar Cookies absolutely fit the bill. They're made from scratch and bursting with tart lemony flavor from both lemon zest and real lemon juice! As tends...
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The Easiest Boozy Chocolate Hazelnut Fondue
The Easiest Boozy Chocolate Hazelnut Fondue. All you need for this recipe is 5 ingredients and a microwave. It doesn't get easier than that for date night! Alright friends, I'll be honest with you: I'm low on time today so I'm going to be quick. Not because it's Valentine's Day and I've got something fancy...
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...
The Great Kitchen Kapers Holiday Gift Guide and GIVEAWAY 2018
We've made our list and checked it twice: Check out our round-up of the best kitchen gifts for everyone (and we do mean everyone) on your list, whatever your budget. Don't tell anyone, but I haven't bought any Christmas presents yet. I can't believe we're already through week one of December and quickly moving on to...
Fiery Italian Chicken Skewers
This post is sponsored by Sutter Home, who made James and I very happy by supplying the wine to go with these Fiery Italian Chicken Skewers as part of the #SweetOnSpice campaign. Whew. My nerves are all jumbled right now because, from out of nowhere, an apocalyptic amount of bouncing hailstones just decimated the top...
Spinach and Artichoke Dip Baked Potatoes
This recipe for Spinach and Artichoke Dip Baked Potatoes has also been featured on Serious Eats. Have any of you ever done those DNA heritage tests? I did, mainly to try to fill in gaps in my family tree (which I've been working on for eons), and to figure out what debilitating diseases I'm at a...
Hot Cajun Crab Dip
Call me a bad influence if you must, but I'm going to distract you all from your kale for a second and present you with this flavor-packed, melty, decadent crab dip. Reasons that I don't feel bad about eating all of the leftover Hot Cajun Crab Dip yesterday: I went on a 5 mile walk...
Butter Pecan Snowball Cookies
These Butter Pecan Snowball Cookies make me feel so Shakespearean. A cookie by any other name... Did you know that these cookies are made in all corners of the earth, and that they have like a billion different names to show for it?
The Best Chewy Café-Style Peanut Butter Cookies
They're called The Best Chewy Café-Style Peanut Butter Cookies for a reason-- these giant, irresistibly soft and chewy cookies are better than any peanut butter cookie recipe you've ever tried before. Their just-barely-crisped edges and ultra-creamy interior make them a peanut butter lover's dream. "So I see that there's a Google search tab for 'cookie-induced...
Pumpkin Crumb Muffins with Cream Cheese Glaze
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. I’m entirely aware that it’s usually not a good thing to say that your breakfast was inspired by your dog’s food. But just hear me out for a second here. My girl Roux is a super-spoiled pup-- she...
Crispy Hearts of Palm Tacos with Chipotle Baja Sauce
This post is sponsored by Reese Specialty Foods, who inspired me to broaden my taco horizons-- for which I’m always grateful. Once you try these Crispy Hearts of Palm Tacos with Chipotle Baja Sauce, trust me, you’ll be grateful, too.
Dutch Baby Pesto Breakfast Pizza
I've been trying to write this post for a while-- ugh, hours now, honestly-- but I keep getting distracted by a very sharp set of teeth on my toes. And tugging at my pants. And attacking my ankles. I guess that's my painful reminder that before I begin to tell you about this delicious Dutch Baby,...
Overnight Raspberry Sweet Rolls with Lemon Cream Cheese Glaze
This post is sponsored by Bob’s Red Mill, who's inspired the inner baked goods buff in me this week. I'm trying my best not to bore you with the annual monologue about my general lack of a sweet-tooth-- that much is well-documented by now-- but we've again reached the time of the year when talks of...
Creole Crab-Stuffed Deviled Eggs
These Creole Crab-Stuffed Deviled Eggs just changed the game. But just for one second, let's forget that you ever heard about these, and the game is as it was. What's the first thing you think of when you hear "deviled eggs"? Is it some elderly-aged get-together with a table full of mayonnaise-laced, retro recipes? It's not...
Nutella Pumpkin Samoa Cookies
Happy Halloweekend! I know we're excited about the here-and-now holiday, but I want to throw it back for just a second. Long, long ago, in the fabulous, fabled era of the nineteen-nineties, I was a young girl who had a vast and varied collection of beanie babies, a stockpile of gel pens, a dozen audio cassettes, three Lisa Frank folders, two tamagotchis,...
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chickpea Bars
I almost called these "Unbelievable Bars" because I was completely caught off guard when I realized that they were not only edible, but actually freaking delicious. They get this crackly, brownie-like crust on the top and bottom after baking, but stay extremely moist and almost fudgy in the center, sort of like the texture of...
Sweet Chili Crab Dip
Sure, I sometimes like to go all out, but I much more often prefer some demi-cheeked fanciness. Bringing out the nice wine glasses with the takeout Chinese food, the nail polish stickers that make it look like you went to the salon recently, nibbling on Texas caviar, you know, that kind of stuff. It's really all about enjoying...
Easy Applesauce Drop Doughnuts with Caramel Glaze
I've got to be quick today, for two reasons: First, because Hanukkah is just around the corner, and I want you to seriously consider making these Easy Applesauce Drop Doughnuts with Caramel Glaze for your holiday get-together. They're fried, they're much easier and quicker to make than Sufganiyah (they take less than an hour from start...
Sangria Sorbet
You might not be used to your frozen desserts having rules, but this one has three: Must love sangria. Must resist the urge to eat it all before fully frozen. Must not operate a vehicle immediately after consuming, because this sorbet packs a punch.
Blue Moon Orange Creamsicles
Just over two years ago, I came up with one of my most popular recipes-- Creamy Margarita Popsicles. At the time, James told me that they were going to be a hit; "You should sell these," he said, "You'd make a lot of money." And even though I didn't decide to venture into entrepreneurship with a...
Red Velvet Cream Cheese Swirl Cookies
Everywhere you look this time of year, there's red and white-- striped, dotted, or blocked together, running its way up candy canes and down pillars, and circling around knit scarves and Santa hats. So it's no surprise that a deep red, chewy cookie with swirls of sweet cream cheese and dots of white chocolate chips fit...
Nut-Crusted Fried Brie Bites
I don't know about you, but I feel like there is not nearly enough cheese in the traditional Thanksgiving spread. Cheese, in all of its variations, definitely makes my "Grateful For:" list every year. As a result, I put cheese in my mashed potatoes, cheese in my dessert, and used warm, buttery, melted cheese as...
Warm Brussels Sprouts and Kale Bacon Caesar Salad
Last night I went to the Vendor Summit for Kitchen Kapers, so I'm in an especially good mood today. If you've ever seen "Oprah's Favorite Things", then imagine that, just with kitchenware. Instead of cars, it's like "YOU GET A VEGETABLE PEELER, YOU GET A VEGETABLE PEELER, EVERYBODY GETS A VEGETABLE PEELER!" It actually is...
Easy Salted Caramel Sauce
Guys, this recipe is going to be my downfall. Not because it's bad-- oh no. Quite the opposite, really. A simple caramel sauce that requires only 5 ingredients (well, I guess 6 if you count the 2 tablespoons of water) and 15 minutes? You know a caramel overdose is in my near future.
Cajun Shrimp Dip
A few months ago, on the Host the Toast facebook page, I asked people what their favorite recipes on the web were. I got some great responses from people telling me about "Chocolate Lasagna" and "Banana French Toast Cupcakes" and other things that are making me too hungry to think about on a Monday morning. Then,...
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...
Mint Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Dip
There is not enough coffee in the world to save me today. I woke up at the crack of dawn yesterday to get my cooking done (look out for the Carrot Cake Cheesecake recipe coming up-- it should be illegal, it's so sinfully good) and then took a long, hurried drive/train ride to Newark for...
Guinness Beef Stew with Cheddar Herb Dumplings
Rich and hearty Guinness Beef Stew is a classic that you'll find at pubs and family dinner tables all across Ireland. This version features ultra-tender meat, deep flavors, and Cheddar Herb Dumplings that will make you swoon. It's the ultimate comfort food. It's been cruelly cold and frosty for the past couple of days up...
Salted and Malted Nutella Caramel Cookies
There are days when everything goes perfectly in my kitchen-- when I'm surprised at how easily a recipe has come together, there are no crazy set-backs, the food tastes great and is insanely photogenic, and the sun has decided to be on my side for the day and the natural lighting is perfect. Those days...
Roasted Garlic Gnocchi with Bacon, Spinach, and Smoked Gouda Cream Sauce
Since I started experimenting in the kitchen a few years ago, there hasn't been much that I've been too scared to attempt. Most of the time, my eagerness to jump right in to a new technique or use a new ingredient has proved well worth it, although I have to admit that I've had more...
Creamy Margarita Popsicles
They always say you should write about what you know. Well, I know how to put alcohol in anything. I learned a lot in college. Because I couldn't decide on a major for the longest time, I took classes in pretty much every subject out there. Everything from linguistics to psychology to art have been in my arsenal...
Buffalo Chicken Potato Skins
(Part of the Super Bowl Theme Thursday Series) One of my favorite things to do when I'm thinking up recipes is to randomly combine things that I love. As I was brainstorming things to make for the Super Bowl Theme Thursday Series, I knew I wanted to make something that resembled a football. ...