Want some more of my favorite meals? Try Taco Soup, Chicken Tetrazzini, Chicken Casserole, or Harissa Pasta! Why I love Cottage Pie: Comfort Food – There is just something about old-fashioned comfort foods that warm my heart…and belly and Cottage pie is on my favorite’s list (right there with Chicken Pot Pie and Lasagna). Delicious – Even my pickiest eaters enjoy this meal because the meat and gravy filling is flavorful and perfectly complimented by the mashed potatoes....

What I Love About This Recipe: Simple Ingredients – Homemade frosting really does taste better and it’s made with simple ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen. No strange ingredients or chemicals here!Consistency – Soft and spreadable or thick enough for piping. However you want it, you control the consistency of the frosting. Adaptable – If you’re looking to add pizzaz to this basic cream cheese frosting recipe, I have different flavor ideas below, like chocolate cream cheese frosting....

Easy Butter Pecan Snowball Cookies It’s hard to think of a Christmas cookie that’s more iconic than these classic snowball cookies. Every Christmas season from my childhood I remember helping my mom and grandma make dozens and dozens of snowball cookies. My Christmas snowball cookie recipe produces cookies that are intensely buttery and rich. The cookies have a lightly crunchy texture from chopped pecans in the cookie dough, and after baking I like to double-roll them through plenty of confectioners’ sugar....

Layered Chocolate Caramel Coconut Bars I have a thing for Magic Bars, or Seven Layer Bars as they’re sometimes called. These aren’t technically seven layer bars because I fell short after six layers but you could easily add nuts or chopped candy bars for that seventh layer. In this recipe, a buttery graham cracker crust is topped with chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, coconut, salted caramel sauce, and sweetened condensed milk. The graham cracker crust is slightly crunchy, the coconut adds chewiness, and the chocolate and butterscotch chips give you something to sink your teeth into....

Easy Key Lime Dessert I’ve been blogging for years and can count on one hand the number of lime recipes I have. And that includes squirting some lime over avocado. Time to branch out and make a classic. Except rather than making classic key lime pie, I made key lime pie bars. I’ll always take bars over pie since making pie crust is never on my to-do list, and this is a one bowl, no-mixer recipe....

English Muffin Mini Pizzas Everyone loves pizza. Especially when you get your own mini pizza and don’t have to share. These mini pizzas are perfect for tailgating, as after-school snacks, or as mindlessly fast and easy party appetizers. They’re also customizable and if you want to doctor them up with sausage, Canadian bacon, bell peppers, olives, pineapple, or whatever you love on your pizza, go right ahead. Cheese lovers like me can go heavy-handed on the cheese, of course....

We’re Oreo cookie loves over here, with tons of Oreo recipes like Oreo Balls, Oreo Cheesecake, Oreo Milkshake, Oreo Bars, and an Oreo Mug Cake. How to make Oreo Cupcakes: Cupcakes: Make batter for chocolate cupcakes (you can use any recipe or a cake mix). Add paper liners to a muffin tin then place an Oreo at the bottom of each liner (optional). Spoon batter on top then bake according to recipe instructions....

If you’re looking for an easy dinner and a way to mix things up from your usual sheet pan chicken and vegetables, this is the ticket. Lining the pan with foil means cleanup is as easy as throwing away a piece of foil. Love that part. This sheet pan sausage and vegetables recipe is ready in about 45 minutes thanks to using precooked sausage. This sheet pan sausage dinner is a great dish for cleaning out your produce drawer, and you can mix and match based on what your family likes....

Want more German recipes? Try German Red Cabbage and Rouladen! Why I love this recipe: Family Connection: One of my birthday meals of choice growing up was Rouladen, Red Cabbage and Spaetzle. My dad lived in Germany as a young adult and brought a love of German culture and food to our family. We have good German friends who taught my eager to learn mother how to make some German classics, and she passed that knowledge on to me....

Easy Vodka Sauce Pasta Recipe Pasta with vodka sauce is a guilty pleasure that you may think is difficult to make at home. However, my straightforward recipe for pasta with vodka sauce is easy and straightforward. For those not familiar with vodka sauce, there’s an abundance of tomato forward flavor, onions, garlic and red pepper flakes, along with heavy cream which makes such a silky sauce. And oh yes, there’s also vodka in this homemade vodka sauce....

comment icon 66 more comments This queso, man. This queso is a grill favorite (elotes) and an app favorite (queso) all bubbled up together in one skillet: a creamy, classic, smooth-melting queso basefresh jalapeños and garlic roasted corn (here’s how to grill that corn to perfection!)cilantrochili powderqueso fresco cheese* *no such thing as too much cheese. Grab a handful of lime-drenched chips and YOU ARE IN BUSINESS. A very important element in any queso is, obviously, the cheese....

You know the times when you want to bake something cozy and yummy at 10am on a Saturday morning (or let’s be real – 2pm on a Tuesday while you are “working from home”) but you don’t want to basically eat cake for breakfast/lunch/second lunch? This is the story of my baking life. comment icon 238 more comments Which is why I’m so happy to share with you MY FAVORITE PUMPKIN MUFFIN recipe....

Okay, maybe I’m out of line. I admit to the food-blogger cauliflower-loving weirdness today. comment icon 264 more comments But guys. BE RATIONAL for two seconds, puhhlease. Obviously weird and delicious are not mutually exclusive, which means PARTY IN YOUR MOUTH! With General Tso’s Cauliflower! I mean, think about what this recipe means. It means you’re going to fry up some golden brown fried bits of cauliflower and coat them in a luscious sweet and savory sauce....

With Oreos and green food coloring and marshmallow fluff. I felt like such a kid in a candy store. Literally. Though it wasn’t all sugar and green food dye #3. I ate some of this type of green and fluffy stuff, too. Raw Pasta Salad with Creamy Lemon & Herb Dressing I had a really nice day with my family and for part of the day, we were outside and took in the green trees and palm trees....

I also need to organize my new toiletry kit, and get my new laptop and case all set up so that I can blog from San Fran on the laptop. I have to get going on everything plus all the usual things I need to tackle. But first, here are pictures from our Halloween and trick or treating yesterday. The stuff memories are made from! Being a Princess, being 3....

Chicken meatballs are one of those staple, freezer-friendly recipes that I keep on hand at all times! They are literally SO versatile and my kids LOVE them! Serve them as an appetizer, or substitute them in any recipe that calls for meatballs. Why I LOVE this recipe: One bowl. The prep on these babies is ridiculously easy! Just dump everything in one bowl and mix it up. Freezer-friendly. I love to keep a batch of chicken meatballs in the freezer at all times....

Homemade Soft Pretzel Recipe One of my favorite things about going to the mall is not just shopping. It’s actually going for my post-shopping treat that is a Wetzel’s Pretzels or Auntie Anne’s, depending on the mall. Those buttery bites of pure unadulterated carbohydrates are what make dealing with the chaos of mall parking and food court lines totally worth it. These homemade pretzels are every bit as good as store bought, ready in 45 minutes from start to finish, and are perfectly soft and chewy with a texture that you will love quite literally sinking your teeth into....

comment icon 150 more comments Nope. NO way. I mean, it was not that long ago that I was literally WIDE AWAKE at 6am – miracle – not just writing about Honey Glazed Crockpot Chicken Adobo but actually making my whole house smell like this perfect combination of roasted garlic and peppery chicken and honey soy sauce glaze. I set my alarm early, in order to start the crockpot, in order to get our lunch ready for friends (does anyone else have this where they find themselves thinking about and preparing things for lunch at 6am?...

I’m a huge fan of 30-minute meals like this, and Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas, Salmon Tacos, Mediterranean Meatball Bowl, or Chicken Caprese! How to make Honey Mustard Chicken: Make Sauce: Mix the honey mustard sauce ingredients together in a bowl: honey, Dijon mustard, olive oil, garlic, rosemary, salt and pepper. Bake Chicken: Pat chicken dry with paper towels and place in center of baking sheet then spoon some honey mustard sauce over each piece of chicken....

Greek Orzo Salad with Feta This recipe is a spinoff of my Greek Lemon Chicken and Orzo, which was one of my personal favorite recipes. I just had to make it again, but with a twist. This version is vegetarian, and would be vegan if you kept the feta cheese out or used a vegan cheese. You’ll never miss the meat (or chicken) in this salad because there are so many awesome layers of flavors and textures....