Raise your hand if you don't have time in the morning before work to make yourself a filling, healthy, and delicious breakfast. Hello, my fellow sad-excuse-for-breakfast buddies. I feel your pain. Not to worry, though. What I'm about to tell you will change your breakfast game forever. You can have ham, egg, and melted cheese stuffed...
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Chipotle Ranch Chicken & Avocado Potstickers with Cilantro Lime Dip
Crispy bottoms and chewy tops make potstickers one of my favorite ways to eat appetizers. I don't just mean Asian-inspired appetizers, either; People typically think of potstickers as being filled with gingery pork, scallions, and cabbage, but you really can put anything in them! This time, I decided to go with a Tex Mex flavored...
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...
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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,...
Fluffy Old Fashioned Pancakes
More times than not, my breakfast consists of coffee. Just coffee. Maybe a granola bar, too, if we're getting crazy. Sure, I'm a food blogger. Sure, breakfast is "the most important meal of the day". Sure, I live in a state filled to the brim with diners. I should probably be ashamed. But the issue with...
Easy Ham and Cheese Pretzel Pinwheels
Here I am with another pretzel recipe, and I have to say that I'm not even the least bit sorry. Especially because this time we're not fussing around with making our own dough! It's easy to get excited about pretzel pinwheels that don't take hours to make-- simply pop open a can of refrigerated breadstick dough and you're...
Cheesy Chorizo Cornbread Balls with Chipotle Dipping Sauce
If you're anything like me in the way that your one, truest of all true loves happens to be Mexican food, and your second truest of all true loves happens to be appetizers in their many forms, then do I have a treat for you! Also, we have a lot in common. We may be kindred...
Crispy-Skinned Baked Chicken Wings + Honey Chipotle Garlic Sauce
I am not what we'd call "proper" when it comes to table manners. I rest my elbows on the table. I devour my dinner in record time. If I chew on gristle or bone, I'll stick my hands right in my mouth and pick it out without a second thought. When I eat, I can guarantee...
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...
Crock Pot Kung Pao Chicken
This time of year, the Crock Pot and One Pot recipes look more and more appealing. I want as much flavor with as little effort as humanly possible when the holidays approach and the temperature plummets. This time of year, I don't have the time or the energy to do much that doesn't revolve around Christmas...
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...
Four Cheese Sausage & Spinach Lasagna
This is the last thing I made before burning the ever-loving you-know-what out of my fingers. About two weeks ago, I was making this Four Cheese Sausage and Spinach Lasagna and some Jack Daniels Burgers to bring to my friend's surprise party. My lasagna was fresh out of the oven and I was trying to position it...
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...
Flourless Peanut Butter & Dark Chocolate Cookies
They're peanut butter. They're dark chocolate. They're peanut butter. They're dark chocolate. A little naughty, a little nice, and a lot of yum. These cookies are just as tasty as they are attractive (who sees a half-and-half chocolate and peanut butter cookie and thinks, "nah"?) and they're quick and easy to make, to boot. BUT...
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...
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,...
Rosemary Olive Oil Crock Pot Bread, Take 2! Plus a recipe for Olive Oil Herb Dip
As I write this post, there is a photo over on the right-hand side of the blog, staring me in the face, right down into the depths of my soul. It's a photo that I am totally not proud of in any way, shape or form. It's a photo that I have GOT to get...
Baked Sweet Chili Garlic Popcorn Chicken
Believe it or not, in between chowing down on all things cheesy or chocolaty that I put up here, I try to make healthy choices. Well, at least sometimes. And I know that a lot of you are right there with me, trying to keep your snacking down and your salad-consumption up. However, just because...
The Best Chewy Café-Style Chocolate Chip Cookies
These cookies are my most popular recipe ever, and for good reason. But I went ahead and messed with them anyway. After years of making them, I've very slightly tweaked the recipe (to be seriously perfect, because I'm obsessive), but the original recipe will be preserved in the notes section for all who prefer it. I've...
Loaded Buffalo Chicken Nachos
The best things in life are meant to be shared. Please remind me of that this upcoming football Sunday when I am HOARDING these Loaded Buffalo Chicken Nachos to myself. Don't be surprised if you find me whispering "my precious" over them and viciously swatting away the hands of friends and family members who are...
Crock Pot Carnitas Tacos with Chipotle Cream
There are few things in the world more glorious than a meal that you prep in the morning, forget about for a few hours while you go to work or run errands or watch 6 back-to-back episodes of Project Runway on OnDemand (I can't be the only marathon-TV-watcher here), and put the final finishing touches...
Mediterranean Vegetable Lasagna
Okay, I'm just going to lay it out there right away-- this isn't really a lasagna. Please put down your pitchforks, food-name-purists, and open your hearts to this layered lasagna-esque casserole of zucchini, eggplant, spinach, cheese, and bechamel. It's seriously yummy, no matter what you call it in-between mouthfuls. Ever since I first made the Zucchini,...
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...
Cheesy Bacon Jalapeno Corn Dip
] And so it has begun. Every 3 minutes, James has been getting notifications from ESPN about another football player who is injured and out for the season, roster projections, and anything that might even mildly pertain to football in some obscure way. He keeps patiently explaining to me every single thing that I somehow forgot...
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...
Pull-Apart Pretzel Skillet with Beer Cheese Dip
Today I was planning on posting a different recipe, but I'm feeling very German at the moment so pretzels and beer were a must. By "feeling very German", I mean that my whole house is now obsessed with DuoLingo (if you want to learn a language, look it up, it's free and I've been using...
Mango Chile Glazed Shrimp
After an hour of blow-drying and flat-ironing, I've got Medusa-head going on within 30 seconds of walking outside. I can feel that August is just around the corner-- that glorious month of hair-ruining humidity. Yes, August, when we finally come to terms with the fact that we never prepared for swimsuit season. Even well into swimsuit season, we...
Mom's Sloppy Joe Stuffed Peppers
When I first posted this recipe for Sloppy Joe Stuffed Peppers years ago, I knew it would become a favorite with my readers because it was already a favorite of mine. Of all of the recipes that I post on this blog, this one is undoubtedly the one I make most often. It's the perfect...
Blackened Fish Tacos with Avocado-Cilantro Sauce
I come from a family of avid taco lovers. We eat tacos of some sort at least twice a week (in fact, we had tacos last night), and every single week, when I ask my brother what I should make for the blog, he tells me to make tacos. The only thing that rivals my...
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...
Mozzarella-Stuffed Chicken Parm Meatballs
At all times, I have at least 3 varieties of mozzarella in my fridge. Bocconcini, shredded, sliced, mozzarella di bufala... it's all got its place in my heart and in my meals (especially since I learned how to make my own fresh mozzarella). I could --and would-- eat mozzarella in everything, but I try to...
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...
Birthday Cake Remix Brownies
When I was in high school, I worked in a pretty pathetic mall (there were like 3 stores in the place that stayed open for more than a month) at an Auntie Anne's. There was honestly no reason to visit that mall unless you wanted a pretzel or ice cream. No reason at all. But in...
Cucumber Basil Gin and Tonic
I'm gonna be honest with you-- I had a very tame weekend filled with tbs movie marathons, trying to get work done on my laptop, and fried foods. And even though I'm not leaving any crazy spree of excitement behind as I enter the work week, I've got to say, I have a serious case of the Mondays...
Loaded Greek Chicken "Pitzas"
Sometimes my cooking "failures" work out even better in the end. When I say "sometimes", I mean almost never, but this recipe was one exception to the typical disaster that is my kitchen on a bad cooking day. (Yes, we all have them!) I wanted to make a regular pizza with Greek toppings, but my dough was...
Creamy Pesto Pasta Salad
This Creamy Pesto Pasta Salad is everything you always wished your cookout side dish could be. It's loaded up with flavorful ingredients like sun-dried tomatoes, peppery arugula, and fresh mozzarella balls, and tossed in a creamy pesto dressing that will make your mouth water just thinking about it. I first made this recipe as a...
Best Ever No-Knead Pan Pizza
I've been on a bit of a pizza-kick lately. And by a bit of a pizza kick, I mean that the only thing I've been craving for the past month has been pizza. I'm not even going to tell you how many times I've ordered a pie, or how many dreams I've had involving pizza...
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