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…
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…
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…
Chicken Bacon Pressed Picnic Sandwiches with Raspberry Honey Mustard
About five years ago, I met James’ mom over a platter of pressed picnic sandwiches. I know that I’ve mentioned this once before, but bear with me. James had spent the past few months of our friendship-turned-budding-relationship letting me know all about his mom– or maybe not so much about her as he did about her food, which…
French Onion Beef Sliders For A Crowd
Daaaamn, Morgan! Back at it again with the white vans french onion soup spin-offs! … Is what I imagine you’re yelling at your screen right now. Because if there’s one thing that I most certainly am, it’s hip to the viral videos of 10 months ago. And if there’s another, it’s consistent. As in I’m…
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…
Waffled French Onion Soup
Wise men saaaaay only fools rush iiiiiin, but I caaaan’t heeeelp fall-ing in loooove with … … soup.
Southwestern Chicken Cobb Salad with Jalapeño Buttermilk Ranch
There are two types of salads in the world, you know. Some are simple, light, and healthy. They’re sort that are loaded up with greens and drizzled with a light vinaigrette; the sort that leaves you the tiniest bit hungry, but in a good way; the sort that you eat at the end of the…
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…
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…
Thai Chicken Fajitas
So this is what happens when you decide to go Frankenstein on your favorite flavors. Someone put it in my head that I was on a fusion kick about a month ago, and now my brain refuses to go anywhere else. Luckily, my tastebuds appreciate this track of recipe experimentation, especially when there’s Thai Chicken Fajitas…
Ultimate Herbed Garlic Bread Cheesesteaks
My two guiltiest of guilty pleasures are, without a doubt, toasted or crusty bread and massive amounts of cheese. I once read that Americans eat the weight equivalent of 72 Titanics in cheese in one year– I’m pretty positive I make a significant contribution to that amount. And while I’ll eat cheese in pretty much…
Fig, Blue Cheese, and Walnut Salad with Warm Bacon Dressing
I’m getting panicky because fig season is almost over and that means that I’m not going to be able to make my absolute favorite salad again for another 8 months. Even worse, I nearly didn’t have enough time to share the recipe for Fig, Blue Cheese, and Walnut Salad with Warm Bacon Dressing with you, and now…
Cheesesteak Stuffed Mushrooms
Football season is coming up, and in my area that means a few things: Passionate, reckless fans and a lot of trash talking Beer, beer, and more beer Still more beer There is no question of what we’re doing on Sundays Cheesesteak Now, Cheesesteaks are always popular here in the oh-so mystical land we call the greater Philadelphia area….
Bacon, Cheddar, Caramelized Onion, and Potato Pierogi
I wish I could tell you that there was some deep background history behind these pierogi– that my father grew up in Poland and brought back the recipe from his family’s long tradition, or that my mother used to enjoy them in the heart of Pittsburgh and shared the city secret of adding sour cream…
Bacon Blue Cheese Burger Skins
For 22 years of my life, I avoided blue cheese like the plague. I don’t know why I refused to try it. I don’t know what made me decide that I’d despise it. All I know is that, for the large majority of my life, I deprived myself of one of the most enjoyable flavors…
