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?
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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?"),...
Creamy Three Cheese Chipotle Chicken Enchiladas
When I first started coming up with recipes for my upcoming Cinco de Mayo / birthday fiesta, I was all set on only including authentic Mexican recipes. I researched meticulously, I took notes, I ordered special ingredients online... aaaand theeeeen these Creamy Three Cheese Chipotle Chicken Enchiladas happened. Sometimes you just gotta follow your heart.
Caramelized Pineapple and Jalapeño Margaritas
My birthday is 2 weeks before Cinco de Mayo, yet it took me nearly 26 years to realize that throwing a combination party stocked with salsas and overflowing with margaritas would be right up my alley. Apparently, it is also right up the alley of far more friends than I ever thought would RSVP, and now the...
Smothered Bacon Asiago Wine Chicken
I like plenty of "classy" foods-- dishes with mile-long lists of ingredients (or mile-high costs for just a few special ones). But when it comes down to what I crave most often, the list consists of a few, simple foods: bacon, chicken, and cheese. You know, the oh-so-very refined palate that one would expect of a food...
Spicy Sesame-Chili Noodles with Chicken
When people find out that I'm a food blogger, they seem to be under the impression that my cabinets are overflowing with the most sophisticated of ingredients, and that I casually toss together grand culinary masterpieces day in and day out. Well, I wish. Just like everyone else, I dread spending too much time in the supermarket....
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...
Irish Baked Potato Soup with Corned Beef and Crispy Leeks
My love story with potato soup is on a better-than-Twilight, stronger than Kim and Kanye, transgressing all pop culture kind of level. It's the real deal. And if you're with me (whether or not you're Irish, and while we're at it, whether or not you have any idea what I'm talking about at all right...
Lemony Brown Butter Asparagus Penne
We were in the middle of watching our 8th House of Cards episode of the weekend, not even talking about this Lemony Brown Butter Asparagus Penne, when James turned to me with a very serious look on his face and said, "You should write in your post tomorrow that I like canned asparagus."
Sun-Dried Tomato Basil Chicken Meatballs with Creamy Parmesan Rice
These Sun-Dried Tomato Basil Chicken Meatballs with Creamy Parmesan Rice are a result of what can only be explained as a freak accident on mother nature's behalf: I've managed to keep a basil plant alive in my kitchen for months now. Not only is it alive, it's flourishing. New leaves are coming in. Nothing is wilting. It's survived...
Balsamic-Red Wine Roasted Chicken Thighs and Vegetables
Chicken thighs and I have had a rocky relationship throughout the years. My mom always avoided them in favor of the leaner breast meat, and because she shied away from them, I thought that there was something inherently unappetizing about thighs. I avoided them at all costs, up until my twenties when I realized that so many recipes...
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...
Baked Buffalo Chicken Mac & Cheese Bites
I just pulled (what I'm pretty sure is) my first all-nighter since college to get this post to you today, and I've gotta say, I'm pumped about it. The recipe required a lot of tweaking and testing throughout the week, as well as a lot of blood, sweat, and tears as I've tried to figure out why my computer and...
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...
Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Noodle Soup
January is always a month of confusion for me-- How long will it take me to remember to write "/16" when I'm jotting down the date? When did it get so cold? When did my jeans get so snug? And on that note, will I flood the blog with healthy recipes? Or should I focus on fattier (and far...
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...
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...
White Chicken Lasagna Roll Ups
Sure, at first glance, it may just look like a big dish of tender pasta, creamy white sauce, and melted cheese, but it's really so much more than that. Well, actually, that's pretty much exactly what it is. But there's also shredded chicken and spinach tucked between each rolled noodle, which both gives it a...
Michael Solomonov's Perfect Hummus Tehina
Put that Sabra back on the shelf because you are never going to buy prepackaged hummus again. I won't even be sensitive with my assumptions here. You're going to love this, for the same reasons that it's been heralded as the best hummus on the east coast, been named Bon Appétit's 2015 Best Dish of The...
Italian Style Stuffing
Here in New Jersey, Italian-Americans make up almost 18% of the state's population-- surpassed in overall number only by our neighbor to the north, New York. This means that, despite the fact that I have not a drop of Italian blood in me, I'm surrounded by plenty of sources for a peek into Italian-American culture. Or...
Slow Cooker Pumpkin Cheesecake
Let's be honest: no matter how great of a cook you are, nor how gracious a host, Thanksgiving gets stressful when you're the chosen one who's preparing the feast. Everyone is counting on you for a delicious day; it is the biggest food-centric event of the year, after all. You spend days planning and prepping,...
Salted Caramel Crunch Cookies
I realize that this is the second post in a row that has "Crunch" in the title. But honestly, who doesn't want a crunchy exterior surrounding their chicken, or some crunchy mix-ins in their cookie dough? After all, if flavor is the leading role, then texture is the director. Did you know that texture actually largely...
Spicy Garlic Crunch Chicken
I went through a bit of a recipe slump recently where I'd think of recipes, write up the ingredients I thought I'd need and their approximate amounts, and then minutes before going to the grocery store, I'd completely change my mind and decide that I didn't want to make those dishes anymore. And then I'd...
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...
Mongolian Beef
You would think that a dish called "Mongolian Beef" would be, well, a Mongolian meal made of beef. But we apparently have a tendency to just name things on a whim around here, and Mongolian Beef has absolutely nothing to do with Mongolian methods of cooking. Nada. Instead, it resembles the Americanized versions of Chinese food, which,...
Loaded Vegetable Lo Mein
There are times, like after a night out, a particularly miserable day, or a rough break-up, that I welcome the absolute lack of restraint that most takeout restaurants exhibit when it comes to salt, sugar and oil. Oh yes, nothing soothes a broken heart quite like massive amounts of some seriously artery-clogging cuisine. But for every day...
Sweet and Sour Chicken
The feeling you get when you're eating Chinese takeout is kind of strange, isn't it? It's part excitement and part self-hatred. Part, "I'm way too full to continue eating," and part, "I'll just eat that delicious egg roll they threw in and then I'm done. Oh, and a bit more rice. And I can't not eat...
Buffalo Chicken Stuffed Peppers
I can feel football season in the air. It's coming. I keep hearing whispers of fantasy football drafts, predictions for the season, and plans for tailgates, and I am beyond excited. Not because of some burning, deep-in-my-soul love for the game (although I have to admit, I get a little bit intense when the season heats up),...
Crispy Tabasco Zucchini Chips
I'm a snacker. I could eat the most amazing meals all day long but still feel lost without something salty to munch on in-between. This, unfortunately, does not always make it easy to stay in the same pant size, if you know what I'm saying. I have a tendency to blissfully eat an entire bag...
Chipotle Chicken Fried Rice
I have a weakness for Chinese takeout, especially with a heaping side of soy sauce-drenched fried rice. In fact, I always order extra so that I can eat the leftovers for lunch the next day... or two... or three. What can I say? I really like fried rice. So when I was asked to participate in the...
Slow Cooker Honey Chipotle Stout Enchiladas
Can you believe that it's already August? Where did the summer go? We're just over a month away from swapping out lemonade for pumpkin lattes and, you guys, I'm so not ready for the sun to start setting before I leave the office. We'll be packing away our swimsuits and taking out our sweaters in no time. NO. Nooooo!...
Slow Cooker Korean Sloppy Joes
My obsession with fusion food started when I was still living in New Brunswick, taste-testing my way through the town one drunk-friendly food truck or mini restaurant at a time. Out of all of the food NB had to offer, it was a Korean BBQ fusion restaurant that stole my heart and wooed my tastebuds....
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...
Easy Greek Tzatziki Chicken Salad
Is it too late for me to start working on getting a bikini bod in time for summer? Yes? Probably? But I mean I have this Easy Greek Tzatziki Chicken Salad, and that has to count for something. You see, this spin on chicken salad fulfills some pretty difficult criteria: it's healthy, it's simple, and it...
Classic Creamy Macaroni and Cheese
If anyone were ever to call me a recipe purist, they'd be wildly mistaken. I like my foods fusion-ified. I like them loaded with crazy amounts of fillings and toppings, and authenticity always follows far behind enjoyability when it comes to my meals. I do not have a Plain Jane appetite, to say the least....
Pambazos (Mexican Salsa-Dunked Sandwiches)
I can't help but pronounce "Pambazos" with a very exaggerated, stereotypical Italian-American accent. Pam-BAAAH-zos! Even though I know that Pambazos are not Italian. Even though I know that they're named after "pan basso". Still, it's pam-BAAAH-zos every time. But what is a Pambazo? It's a guajillo salsa-dunked sandwich that's traditionally filled with spicy chorizo and potatoes. In...
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...
Easy Vegetable Enchilada Skillet
In an unexpected twist of events that would shock and appall my former 5-year-old self, I have grown to love vegetables. I am like a kid in a candy store in the produce section during the warmer-weather months. Aside from the massive (and I do mean massive) amounts of cheese in my fridge, there are...
Honey Dijon Chicken Cheesesteaks on Pretzel Rolls
My mom is not a big eater. She is perfectly content having salad for dinner most nights, and she sticks to small portion sizes when she eats anything else. I did not inherit my endless (and frighteningly insatiable) appetite from her. But sometimes she surprises me, like when I told her that she could have the first taste...
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