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...
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Chorizo Queso Dip
No kidding: Today, I ran into my friend's mom at the grocery store and, unprompted, she told me that she wants a taco bar and queso fountain at her 50th birthday party this year. With-- I quote-- "none of that processed cheese shit." And I was like, "Stephanie, I got you. Check out my blog...
Mezze Party Platter
I almost flipped the whole damn table over on Friday night. James suggested that we do a date-night dinner this past weekend at our favorite little Turkish hole-in-the-wall and I was all about it. Partially because I am absolutely obsessed with the food there-- the creamy hummus, the crispy falafel, the warm pita bread, the butter-soft grilled meats, the...
One Pot Cajun Chicken Alfredo
This post is sponsored by Sutter Home, who inspired James and I to have a delicious date night for the #SweetOnSpice campaign. Cheers to that! I can't think of a single dish that I've made over the past year and a half that James and I have been living together that he didn't taste. He's...
Slow Cooker Spicy Shredded Mexican Chicken
This month is like an experiment in how many lazy dinners I can make. And how many days in a row I can use my slow cooker before actually putting it back into the cabinet. And how many tacos I can stomach. Especially that last one. I bought a jumbo-sized package of tortillas at the wholesale...
Crispy Chicken Tacos with Avocado Buttermilk Ranch
I'm not sure of the technical way to measure the greatness of a meal (if such a thing exists), but I want to say that it's probably "how likely would it be that I'd happily-- maybe even eagerly-- eat this on an already painfully full stomach?" Because you know what? I spent this weekend raiding...
Chicken Bacon Pressed Picnic Sandwiches with Raspberry Honey Mustard
About five years ago, I met James' mom over a platter of pressed picnic sandwiches. I know that I've mentioned this once before, but bear with me. James had spent the past few months of our friendship-turned-budding-relationship letting me know all about his mom-- or maybe not so much about her as he did about her food, which...
Greek Avocado Salad with Garlic-Dill Vinaigrette
How many more times do you think I'm going to bundle up in my puffiest ski jacket before taking a step outside and realizing that the sinisterly frigid season is decidedly over-- not just "it's technically spring" over, but "I can go to the grocery store with a t-shirt on and survive strolling through the refrigerated section" over?
30 Minute Chicken Gyros with Tzatziki
Despite the fact that we still have plastic containers filled to the brims with dips and finger foods shoved in the refrigerator, begging to be eaten, I decided last night that it was about time we incorporated a real dinner into our week. Preferably one without cheese-- you thought you'd never hear me say that,...
Seafood Fra Diavolo
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #HuntsHasHeart #CollectiveBias In the typical sigh-inducing retail fashion, there's been Valentine's Day decorations out at the drugstore since right after Christmas. Heart-shaped candy boxes, heart plush toys, and heart-covered wrapping paper abound. There are obnoxious pink and red glittery hearts...
Cheesy Tuscan Spaghetti Squash
This blog post has been compensated by Borden® Cheese. All opinions are mine alone. #BordenCheeseLove #CollectiveBias #Ad I’ve been promising myself for months that I would start sharing (and making) better for you, easy to make meals more often. We’re just about a month into the new year, and while you all are “new year,...
30 Minute Huevos Rancheros Potato Boats
Hello, my lazy-souled kindred spirits, and welcome to another episode of Procrastination Time with Morgan Eisenberg. I know that I told some of you that I'd get this to you by Saturday, but... uh... welcome to Procrastination Time! Today, I'm going to teach you how to make an insanely delicious breakfast even though you overslept...
Pepperoni Pizza Stuffed Garlic Bread
So I've seemingly tripped at the entrance of 2017 and fallen clean past the "healthy eating of the New Year" phase, straight down to the foot of Super Bowl snack-time. Oh nooooo... ? Ah, I can't even pretend to be bummed about it.
Slow Cooker Jamaican Jerk Chicken Chili with Plantain Chips
Consider this my SOS call.
Loaded Pizza Nachos with Creamy Garlic White Sauce
I never thought I'd be caught up in a love triangle, but if you try to make me choose between a bunch of nachos and couple of slices of pizza (both of which are conveniently triangle-shaped, I might add), things are going to get reaaal emotional up in here. Nachos, pizza, and I have enjoyed many...
Saucy Spanish Chicken, Chorizo, and Potato Pot
I don't know what I've enjoyed more: soaking up all of the compliments I've gotten about this Saucy Spanish Chicken, Chorizo, and Potato Pot, or soaking up all of that sauce with slice after slice of crusty bread. On second thought, I'm totally lying. It's the sauce, hands down, no contest. I'm in love with it, I want...
Hashbrown-Crusted California Quiche with Avocado Roses
I'll admit it: I'm a notorious breakfast-skipper, which makes me seem like maybe not the most likely person to recommend recipes meant to be eaten in the AM hours. However, on the occasions when I decide that a cup of coffee on its own won't suffice, I'm your go-to morning meal girl. I go all out. Case...
Southwestern Chicken Cobb Salad with Jalapeño Buttermilk Ranch
There are two types of salads in the world, you know. Some are simple, light, and healthy. They're sort that are loaded up with greens and drizzled with a light vinaigrette; the sort that leaves you the tiniest bit hungry, but in a good way; the sort that you eat at the end of the...
Saucy Skillet Chicken Sausage and Spinach Stuffed Peppers
There's something about stuffed peppers that always feels like the cozy, tuck-you-in type of comfort food to me. They're also the kind of comfort food that I tend to avoid in the warmer months because most recipes require turning on the oven. When it feels like an oven outside, I try not to use the oven inside, you know?...
Cornbread Salad with Jalapeño-Browned Butter Vinaigrette
Usually when I hear the words "cornbread" and "dressing" together, I have Thanksgiving flashbacks. But not today. Today, I'm having flashbacks to a weekend barbecue when I served up some Cornbread Salad with Jalapeño-Browned Butter Vinaigrette, which-- with its ton of toasty sweet cornbread, creamy avocado, melted cheddar cheese, fresh corn, juicy popped tomatoes, and sweet,...
Umami Bomb Mushroom Burgers
Ah, umami. Prounced like the catcall ("ooh mami"), but much more likely to get single men results. I don't think any of my friends have ever responded favorably to shouts on the street-- I know I haven't-- but an explosion of savory flavor in the kitchen? Well, that can really woo a woman. Unsolicited dating advice courtesy of...
4 Must-Make Salsas
Can we have a moment of silence for all of the snack aisle salsas that'll get tossed from the refrigerator shelves to the trash bins right after people have a taste of these aptly named, homemade, Must-Make Salsas?
Slow Cooker Smothered Beef Burritos
The only limes that I've been able to find throughout the past few weeks of recipe-making have been intimidatingly large. As in REALLY HUGE. As in close your eyes and picture a softball, but then imagine that it has a green rind surrounding it-- that's what these limes look like. They kind of freak me out ("but WHY are they so big?"),...
Crunchy Mexican BBQ Sauced Chicken Tacos with Charred Corn Relish
I feel like you're giving me a weird look right now. Is it because when you envision sweet and smoky, barbecue sauce-smothered chicken with fresh-off-the-cob corn, you're usually not thinking of tacos? I feel you, friend. I do. But these Crunchy Mexican BBQ Sauced Chicken Tacos with Charred Corn Relish are about to change your WORLD.
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...
Slow Cooker Indian-Spiced Lentils
Since moving, I've learned that there's a fat chance of finding decent takeout in this town. The pizza place a half-block away only serves edible food if "the old guy" is working. The Chinese in the same plaza is garbage. There was a good Chinese place about a mile down the road, but in a...
Southwestern Chicken and Sweet Potato Skillet
Have you been keeping up with things around here? If so, you already know that James and I moved in together last month, and so far it's been a meltdown-free experience so I'm going to label it a success. As I write this, I'm sitting on our nicely made bed with our new sheets, comforter, pillows,...
One Pot Pasta Bolognese
Patience is not a virtue of mine. In a traffic jam, I'm a short breath away from abandoning my car and walking off into the wilderness. I pick up hobbies and swear them off forever if I find that I'm not a master knitter/painter/pianist within a month. I track my UPS packages every 20 minutes from the...
Eggplant Parmesan Dip
How do you reform an eggplant hater? Apparently you slather the stuff in tomato sauce and mozzarella, as I learned with James a few years back. After trying eggplant parm once, he went from pushing away any dish that had the vegetable in it to begging for baba ghanoush every week. We eat a ton of...
One Pot Penne Alla Vodka with Sausage
All logical reasons considered, I should NOT like Penne Alla Vodka. I've only recently come around to tomato-based sauces (and still approach them with caution), and the vodka-- well, for all of the reasons I've ever imbibed, "Vodka is delicious" has never been one of them. Yet here I am, eating a bowl full of...
Indian Spiced Rice & Lentil Salad
Last year, I discovered that rice salad was an amazingly wonderful thing. It's replaced pasta salad as my favorite binge-on-at-barbecues-until-the-shame-kicks-in dish. Actually, being perfectly honest, shame doesn't even stop me most of the time. I will eat rice salad until I can't physically get up to get more. You think I'm exaggerating, don't you? It...
Tandoori Chicken Naan Pizza
Worried about making pizza dough from scratch? Keep calm and carry naan. These are not your typical pizzas-- instead of tomato sauce, pepperoni and mozzarella, we're using tandoori chicken, mango, red onion, mint, cilantro, and yogurt... oh, and mozzarella, because in the end, you just can't nix the mozz. Do you know what happens when...
Crock Pot Chicken Tinga Tacos with Bacon Pico De Gallo
Happy Cinco de Mayo! How are you going to celebrate? (Pssst! If you're not planning on eating tacos tonight, it's time to reevaluate your choices.) Lately I've been absolutely swamped with things to do, so I've been trying to be a bit minimalistic in the kitchen. Simple recipes with a relatively short list of ingredients...
Sofritas Tofu Burrito Bowls
As a lover of bacon, pulled pork, and burgers, a lot of people find it surprising when I say that I also adore tofu. Or maybe I should say I adore good tofu. Tofu gets a bad wrap from the many people who don't know how to properly prepare the wiggly soybean curd, leaving a lot of people to think...
Mexican Turkey Burgers with Cilantro-Lime Pesto
Typical Turkey Burgers have never really been my thing, despite my mom's best efforts to get me to enjoy them. Save for the rare exception, they usually seem dry and unbelievably boring. I'll just have a hamburger, thanks. But I've been trying to eat a bit less red meat lately (I'd been downing blue cheese burgers with a...
Butter Chicken Pot Pie with Naan Crust
It never fails-- when there's snow on the ground and a grumbling in my stomach, I always crave comfort food in the form of Chicken Pot Pie. Juicy chicken, tender vegetables, and creamy sauce all nestled beneath crisp, golden crust; that's my idea of cold weather consolation. Everything about Chicken Pot Pie screams "All-American classic"... but...
Chicken Cacciatore
When I used to think "date night", I didn't think "chicken". Medium-rare steaks, juicy pork tenderloin, butter-drenched lobster; sure. But chicken? Nah. It's just too boring. Too bland. Not sexy enough. However, after 3 years of James begging me to make Chicken Cacciatore, I finally caved. I had eaten it before-- a simple meal of tomatoes, peppers,...
Three Cheese Crock Pot Macaroni and Cheese
I'm sad to say that there was a point in my life when I hated Mac n' Cheese. Doesn't that make you sad for my childhood? Oh, the wasted years! For much of my life, I didn't realize that there was anything else out there other than the watery, powder-made instant cheese sauce from a box. No...
Fried Pickle Poppers
As a "northerner", there are a lot of foods that I feel it took me far too long to discover. I've fallen in love with BBQ brisket, pecan pie, collard greens, fried green tomatoes, and chicken fried steak all within the past few years. There's no denying that there's some delicious dishes to be had...
One Pot Cheesy Chicken Taco Rice
"One Pot" recipes have become favorites of mine, since a) I hate washing dishes and b) I hate washing dishes. By the way, did I mention that I hate washing dishes? Because I do. I hate it. But you know what I don't hate? Delicious chicken, beans, corn, rice, tomato, avocado, onions, and cheese all cooked together in...