Apple Fritter Pull-Apart Bread. This is one of my most popular easy recipes, and for good reason. With sweet, fall-spiced apples, fluffy biscuit layers, and a delicious vanilla glaze, this pull-apart bread is always a hit. After making Buffalo Chicken Pull-Apart Bread a few years back (don't tease me for the bad pictures, that post needs to...
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Bacon-Wrapped Figs with Blue Cheese and Bourbon Caramel
Bacon-Wrapped Figs with Blue Cheese and Bourbon Caramel. This impressive appetizer recipe has the perfect balance of sweet, salty, and tangy flavors, and only requires 6 ingredients. This recipe for Bacon-Wrapped Figs with Blue Cheese and Bourbon Caramel was also featured on Serious Eats. I'm not a superstitious person, nor am I someone who takes...
Garlicky Feta Dip
If you're looking for a great easy appetizer, try Garlicky Feta Dip. This simple, creamy dip is tangy, flavorful, and always a crowd-pleaser. James now calls this "Trust Your Gut Dip", which is probably a catchier name for it, truth be told. The story behind it is that I've been making this Garlicky Feta Dip...
Tarragon Mustard Chicken Skewers
Tarragon Mustard Chicken Skewers. Dijon mustard, garlic, lemon juice, olive oil, tarragon and honey are all you need to make an incredibly flavorful chicken marinade. This recipe for Tarragon Mustard Chicken Skewers has also been featured on Serious Eats. Given that Mike The Housemate (as I've now decided he should be named) winces in disgust at...
Antipasto Tortellini Pasta Salad
Everyone goes crazy over this Antipasto Tortellini Pasta Salad! It's a flavor-packed potluck favorite, and leagues better than anything you can get from the grocery store. This loaded pasta salad recipe features multiple cheeses, meats, olives, peppers, and more to create a hearty summer side dish. It'll definitely become your go-to pasta salad! I've spent...
Browned Butter Lemon-Garlic Green Beans
Browned Butter Lemon-Garlic Green Beans. Green beans take on a deep, nutty flavor from toasted almonds, browned butter, and grated parmesan cheese. Lemon juice adds a little brightness to balance out the rich butter sauce, and plenty of garlic will make these green beans the highlight of your dinner. It's so easy to get caught...
Homemade Garlic Naan
This Homemade Garlic Naan recipe is truly the best. Even if you've never made bread at home before, this soft, chewy, garlicky flatbread is easy to make and well worth the effort. You're going to love serving it with your favorite Indian dishes. Bread-baking seems a little intimidating at times, doesn't it? If I could...
Jack Daniels Burgers
Jack Daniels Burgers. These juicy, glazed cheeseburgers taste just like the ones at T.G.I. Friday's. The sweet, sticky glaze (and a few tips) will take your typical backyard burgers to the next level. Like most of the recipes I share here, this one started with an obsession. Unlike the rest, however, the obsession wasn't mine at...
One Pot Cajun Chicken and Rice
One Pot Cajun Chicken and Rice. This delicious one pot dinner features tender seasoned Cajun chicken, andouille sausage, and flavorful rice, and it takes less than an hour to make from start to finish. Given the fact that I'm Ms. Rarely Repeat A Recipe (once it has already been tested, perfected, photographed, and video'd successfully, of...
Grilled Peach and Halloumi Panzanella
Grilled Peach and Halloumi Panzanella. This summer salad includes a mix of quickly grilled peaches, halloumi cheese, and ciabatta bread croutons that are tossed with fresh basil, red onions, and a simple white balsamic vinaigrette. It looks and tastes fancy, but it only takes less than a half-hour to prepare! I placed this platter on...
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...
Caramelized Onion and Garlic Bread
Caramelized Onion and Garlic Bread. Who ever thought that garlic bread could get even better? A sweet garlic-onion-herb butter is smeared over spongy ciabatta, hit with plenty of parmesan, and baked until beautifully browned. At the risk of ruining my well-established reputation as the pinnacle of all things cool (haaaah), I've started doing food trivia...
Cheesy Asparagus and Ham Cannelloni
These Cheesy Asparagus and Ham Cannelloni make for an impressive dinner without a ton of effort. Lasagna sheets, deli-sliced ham, fresh asparagus, and a simple 3-cheese sauce come together to make a truly special dish for the family. I'm what I like to call a "season" person-- it gets me through the year, and...
Spiked Fruit Straws
Spiked Fruit Straws. Flavor in the cocktail, meet flavor in the straw. Fresh fruit makes for a delicious and useful garnish! They say that to come up with a great invention, you need to first identify a problem that needs solving. The same can be said for great recipes, or at least I tend to...
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...
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...
Jalapeño Popper Pretzel Bites
Making pretzels from scratch is a little intimidating and labor intensive, I know, I know. I've got about a billion recipes on here that ask you to do all of that yeast and kneading and rolling business... but this isn't one of them. These Jalapeño Popper Pretzel Bites might seem complicated (they are two appetizers in...
Baked Bacon Blue Cheese Dip
If you're the sort of snacker who will proceed to dip every appetizer on the sampler platter in the tiny side of blue cheese long after the wings have been eaten, you are in the right place. Welcome. You are amongst your people here, and this Baked Bacon Blue Cheese Dip is about to rock...
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...
Skillet Cheddar-Cornbread BBQ Chicken Pot Pie
How to live your best life when it's cold outside: Throw on a pair of sweatpants, make this spin on chicken pot pie, and spoon it into your mouth as you cuddle up on the couch. I'm speaking from experience here. When it comes to making dinner for myself (that is to say, without the...
Sheet Pan Maple Pecan Crusted Chicken & Roasted Vegetables
This post is sponsored by PAM Spray Pumps, who has been responsible for many a crispy-baked recipe in this house. Well, we had a few cool breezes this month, which of course means I’ve nosedived into pumpkin spice, pulled down my bin of sweaters from the attic, and decorated my house with gourds and dried...
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...
Green Chile Chicken Quesadilla Sticks
You could say that I'm extra invested in football season this year. The guys got NFL Sunday Ticket so we now get all of the games at home, I finally formed my own fantasy football league, and most importantly, I actually took time in the off-season to study up so I kinda know what I'm...
5 Ingredient Cheddar Bacon Horseradish Dip
I'd say that right around the time that someone literally lifts the entire bowl of dip from the buffet area and sneaks it over to their own table, it becomes acceptable to pat yourself on the back for making a damn good recipe. Or at least that's what I told myself as I eyed my 5 Ingredient...
Strawberry Avocado Spinach Salad with Greek Yogurt Poppy Seed Dressing
Something strange happened last week that I'm still trying to wrap my head around. James and I went to a cook-out where the hosts totally (and deliciously) went overboard with the food: there were sausages of every sort, kebabs piled so high on platters that it looked like they'd topple over, racks upon racks of ribs,...
Easy BBQ Bacon Baked Beans
I try not to throw the word "ultimate" around here too much because there are thousands of classic recipes on the web, but sometimes I sink my fork into something that's too good for modesty... and you guys, after my first bite of these beans, I knew it was one of those times. I've made...
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...
Sticky Chipotle-Peach Chicken
I'll get to this Sticky Chipotle-Peach Chicken in a second, but first I have to ask, is it just me? Am I the only one whose mind, during the duller moments of the day, drifts to all of the cringe-worthy choices and mortifying mistakes made in the past? Usually it's the parked car I hit shortly...
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?
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.
Honey Lemon Chiffon Pie
Well I'll bee damned. I've gotta tell you, I said "this probably isn't going to turn out" to myself at least 17 times as I made this pie. But much to my surprise, the bees wound up looking like bees, the honeycomb pattern looked like honeycomb, the filling set to an awesome consistency, and the Honey...
Enchilada Meatball Pasta Bake
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #MeatballPerfection #CollectiveBias I consider myself a “what-you-see-is-what-you-get” type of gal, so when people ask me what tricks I have up my sleeves to get dinner on the table on busy nights or make an appetizer at a moment’s...
Hot Honey Garlic Sweet Potato Bake
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Garlic Knot Chicken Parmesan Sandwiches
Did I ever tell you about the time that I wound up with 13 pounds of garlic knots tossed in bowls that were strewn across my kitchen, with flour and oil and garlic skins littering any potential open counter space? Oh, well that's probably because it just happened. It was an interesting way to spend Valentine's...
Strawberry Sangarita (Margarita Sangria)
When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. But what do you do when life (or more accurately, overzealous grocery shopping) gives you dozens of leftover strawberries? Well, you still make a tasty beverage, but this time, you spike it. With a bottle of wine. And some triple sec. And tequila. You make Strawberry Sangarita,...
No-Bake Strawberry Shortcake Cheesecake Bars
The truth-- if you care to know it-- is that I'm a cynic. (Though if you've been reading for a while, this should come as no surprise.) I will probably leave this world just as distrusting, disillusioned, and full of whining as I entered it; still a crusader of personal space and timely break-ups; still the last...
Skillet Red Wine Brownie
Chocolate and wine. Name a more iconic duo, I'll wait. When it comes to heartthrob food pairings, dark chocolate and fruity red wine is the most sensual and simple combination that immediately comes to mind. Take a bite and then a sip, and it's all bliss, baby. This is one Valentine’s Day cliché that I'll happily...
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,...
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...
Baked Boneless Wings 4 Ways
With the Super Bowl just around the corner, I've been craving one thing for weeks: wings. Or more accurately, boneless wings, which aren't really chicken wings at all-- they're chunks of chicken breast which are prepared in the traditional wing fashion. That is to say that they're crispy and coated with flavorful sauce, but with...