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…
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…
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…
Mexican Brick Chicken with Grilled Corn and Avocados
Say hello to the debunker of the Beer Can Chicken craze. You may think you know the tastiest way to grill a whole chicken, but I’m about to cast some doubt and introduce you to this delicious, crispy, juicy, spicy, delicious (again for emphasis) Mexican Brick Chicken with Grilled Corn and Avocados.
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…
Smoky Shrimp Pasta Salad with Chipotle-Honey Vinaigrette
This Smoky Shrimp Pasta Salad with Chipotle Dressing is about to make a lot of people reaaaal popular this summer.
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.
BBQ Chicken Mac & Cheese
This post is sponsored by the Wisconsin Cheese Board, whose noble cause involves getting you to eat more delicious cheese. That, I can get behind. Today, I want to tell you about something that holds a very big, very special place in my heart. No, it’s not James (sorry, babe). No, it’s not Netflix (sorry, other…
Grilled Balsamic Steak with Blue Cheese Butter
In the past year and a half that I’ve been blogging, I have really warmed up to steak. “Warmed up” as in I can’t get enough of it and I weep for the 22 years of my life that I wasted without it. It’s like when you’re in a relationship, and you really love someone,…
Bacon Bourbon BBQ Chicken Kebabs
You want bacon recipes? I’ve got twenty. But who cares? No big deal. I want mooooooooore… I once thought that recipes including bacon were pretty straight forward. You’d just fry up some meaty goodness in its own fat, crumble it up if you’d like, and mix it in. Then I found out about Bacon Jam,…
Sweet and Spicy Pulled Pork with Honey Jalapeno Lime Slaw
It’s under 10 degrees Fahrenheit in my area of the world right now, yet I’ve been inexplicably craving one of my favorite summer-time foods: pulled pork sandwiches. Maybe it’s because I’ve been dreaming of days when it’s warm enough to even consider going outside to barbecue, or maybe it’s because I like my sandwiches with…
Apple Butter BBQ Ribs
I have somewhat of a torrid love affair going on this season with the classic pork and apple flavor combination. Sure, it’s been around forever, but for whatever reason, something about the sudden chill in this year’s air has got me thinking in one direction. (Hint: it’s a direction that involves an entire apple grove and…
Avocado Bacon Pasta Salad
As ridiculous as this may sound, I’ve been thinking up pasta salad recipes for weeks now. Once the first faint brush of summer sun could be felt inching its way across bare shoulders, I could be found walking around the neighborhood with a dog leash in one hand (with puppy attached, of course) and my…
Omi’s Wurstsalat (German Bologna Salad)
“Let’s make Wurstsalat,” my Omi (German for Grandma) said through her thick accent over the phone, as we tried to decide what we would cook together when she visited. “Okay, what’s in that?” I asked her. Wurst is German for sausage, and salat, obviously, for salad. I was expecting a big bowl of bratwurst with…
Chinese-Style Barbecue Country Ribs (Slow-Cooker Recipe)
(Part of the Chinese New Year Theme Thursday Series) It’s finally here; The day we’ve been waiting all week for. In just a few hours, we will be freed from our daily grind and plunged into the short-but-sweet world of free time. Yes, it’s Friday. It’s Friday, and I’m posting an extension…
Sweet & Spicy BBQ Pulled Brisket & Latke Bites
There’s no denying that the season of food is upon us. For the past month or so, it has been impossible to escape conversation about Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve menus. However, I haven’t heard very much—not enough, I say—about Hanukkah in the scheme of this holiday food frenzy. Unlike Thanskgiving, Christmas, and…
