It takes just 10 minutes and a handful of ingredients to make this Whipped Pumpkin Butter and drastically improve any fall recipe. Slather some on your rolls, pancakes, or toast for a heavenly autumn experience. THE BEST WAY TO USE LEFTOVER PUMPKIN If you don’t know what to do with the last bits of canned...
Fluffy Dinner Rolls with Honey Butter Glaze
These melt-in-your-mouth dinner rolls will be the softest, most delicious rolls you'll ever sink your teeth into. The secret to rolls so irresistible that they'll outshine any main dish served alongside them? Tangzhong! Is there anything more satisfying than the compliments that come along with a plate piled high with freshly-baked, homemade dinner rolls? Yes,...
Oven Roasted Red Potatoes
These easy-to-make Oven Roasted Red Potatoes are tossed with garlic, herbs, and parmesan cheese, and then baked until beautifully golden and crisp. Serve them as-is. or finish with butter and extra fresh parsley for a truly decadent and drooled-over side dish. I'm not going to tell you that these are the perfect potatoes. Because in...
Magic Mac and Cheese
Magic Mac and Cheese is a no-boil, no-roux, and no-nonsense recipe for the richest and most flavorful baked mac of your life. While its flavor is deliciously complex, its foolproof method is (truly) simple to cook and customize. Consider this my Mac N Cheese Manifesto. This spring I set out to create the easiest, cheesiest,...
Pan-Fried Garlic Butter Steak with Crispy Potatoes and Asparagus
Pan-Fried Garlic Butter Steak with Crispy Potatoes and Asparagus. Meet the equally simple and sexy date night meal that will change the way you tackle romantic dinners forever. The key? A high heat sear on the steak followed by lots of basting with garlicky herb butter to finish off the cooking process. At the risk...
Quick and Easy Garlic Butter Stromboli Squares
Quick and Easy Garlic Butter Stromboli Squares. This no-fuss party appetizer is loaded with mozzarella, salami, pepperoni, and ham, and topped with a garlicky butter and parmesan mixture. This is one of those recipes I talk about sometimes that almost doesn't make it to the blog because it's so simple that it's almost silly-feeling to...
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...
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...
Hot Honey Garlic Sweet Potato Bake
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Make-Ahead Rosemary Sweet Potato Rolls
One of the most universally loved dining-out experiences has to be when your waiter unexpectedly brings out a basket of freshly baked rolls, right? Who isn't overcome with happiness for just a few seconds when you see that bundle of bread? They make my heart happy; warm rolls just get me in a way no one else...
Crispy Cranberry-Herb Butter Butterflied Turkey with Roasted Vegetables
See all of those glorious blackened bits? I bet you can't make this turkey and not pick off some of those morsels to eat them before serving. Go on and try-- call it an impossible exercise in self-restraint. Just like with any "blackened" recipe, the charred bits on this Crispy Cranberry-Herb Butter Butterflied Turkey with Roasted Vegetables are the...
Creamy Lemon Butter Shrimp Pasta with Spinach and Caramelized Garlic
I've been seeing drunk food all over facebook lately-- the stuff you make when you've had a lot to drink and suddenly you are Gordon Ramsey, nay, Alain Ducasse, nay, not even a Picasso of food could rival your superhuman creative flair in the kitchen. It's revolutionary. It's avante-garde. It... usually features heavy use of the microwave.
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,...
Matcha Cookie Christmas Tree Stacks
It's an exciting day of firsts for me. This is my first post I've written since moving (to my first place I've rented away from home since college), of my first time using matcha in baked goods. I never thought these Matcha Cookie Christmas Tree Stacks would turn out so perfectly on my first go, but what do you know? It's a...
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...
Cilantro-Garlic-Lime Seafood Packets
It's been a few years since I first made these Cilantro-Garlic-Lime Seafood Packets (or "The BOMB" Packets, as we like to call 'em around here), and they are still one of my favorites. Hence the fact that we call them "the bomb". But more on that in a second. The Cilantro-Garlic-Lime Seafood Packets are loaded...
