No-Bake Rolo and Caramel Cheesecake Parfaits National Cheese Day Recipes Roasted Grapes and Balsamic Reduction with Cheese and Crackers 15 recipes Using Cake Mix (and none of them actually make a cake) – Thanks to Pinterest, this post has been a hot tamale Apricot Butterscotch Peanut Butter-Filled Sandwich Cookies 20 Peanut Butter Recipes for National Peanut Butter Day Orange Ginger Tempeh and Brown Rice Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette (vegan, GF if GF tempeh is used) – my new favorite salad...

Here’s the dealio – back in 2011 I read an article online that said it was practically impossible to make money with a food blog. I had trouble believing that. I asked Lindsay if I could experiment with Pinch of Yum to see if we could create an income from it. On September 5th, 2011 I published a post titled The Food Blog Money Making Experiment. Total income? $21.97. I was a little embarrassed to publish the post....

National Watermelon Day and I am not making this one up… 2. Grab Some Nuts Day How about grabbing a handful of nuts or party mix in honor of the holiday: Coconut Cinnamon Sugar Roasted Almonds (vegan, GF) Rosemary Chipotle Roasted Almonds (vegan, GF) Vanilla Cake Batter and White Chocolate Chip Caramel Corn Buttery Toasted Captain Crunchies (Vegan & GF options) Peanut Butter Chex Mix, aka “Puppy Chow” (vegan, GF) White Chocolate Vanilla Peanut Butter Puppy Chow (GF)...

Easy Vegetarian Dinner Recipe This is my kind of dream food. For most people, this would be a great side dish, but I can easily make a meal out of it. The cauliflower itself and the red bell peppers are crisp-tender along with crunchy peanuts and a thick kung pao sauce. It’s salty and savory with a touch of sweetness from brown sugar and a hint of acid from rice vinegar....

Well after a veritable cooking bonanza over the weekend, remember the double chocolate cookies, and the maple nut chocolate oaties, and the apple-carrot (pan)cakes from yesterday, which by the way I am so jazzed that everyone thought the food looked really yummy. I am humbled by how you all keep commenting that my food and recipes are so inspiring and creative. I try, and glad I’m succeeding! Anyway, things were a smidge more mellow in the kitch the past day....

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Want more Italian recipes? Try this Chicken Parmesan, Tomato and Basil Bruschetta, Manicotti, or Short Rib Ragu! Why I love this recipe: Flavor-packed – The homemade meatballs and the spicy arrabbiata sauce pack a punch of flavor and are complimented perfectly with Artisan No Knead Bread. Easy – Takes about 30 minutes to make and only uses basic pantry ingredients. This is a home cooked meal anyone can make. Freezer Friendly – This is one of my favorite meals to double and freeze....

Mediterranean Baked Chicken Pasta Recipe This Mediterranean-inspired baked chicken recipe features moist and juicy chicken thighs with perfectly crispy skin and tender bowtie pasta. Everything simmers in sauce made with every fabulous Mediterranean themed ingredient I can think of including feta cheese, kalamata olives, red peppers, tomatoes, lemon juice, white wine, garlic, and more! We are talking layers and layers of briney, savory goodness. Despite a semi-long list of ingredients and directions, I promise this is a very do-able and approachable weeknight recipe that you can have ready in 45 minutes....

If you love a good restaurant copycat recipe don’t miss my Copycat Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwich, Applebee’s Salad, or Nothing Bundt Cake. My husband loves Taco Bell, and it was because of him that I ever tried their Mexican Pizza. I love this copycat recipe because it uses higher quality ingredients and they’re easy to make. Ingredients in Mexican Pizza: Ground beef Taco seasoning (homemade, or 1 packet) oil Corn tortillas Refried beans (store-bought or homemade) Red enchilada sauce (store-bought or homemade) shredded cheddar cheese roma tomato sliced olives green onions...

Bite-Sized Cherry Cheesecakes These easy-to-make mini cheesecakes are sure to impress! They’re perfect for company or entertaining, especially after a big meal when you want something sweet but nothing too big. The cheesecakes are also casual enough that you can set them out if you’re having a get-together and people can graze by and help themselves when they’re ready for dessert. Crunchy graham cracker crust is topped with a smooth and creamy filling and I topped the mini cheesecakes with cherry pie filling but you can use any flavor you’d like....

Stuck in the cracks of our placements, bleeding red and green dye under our fingernails, and sticking to my bare feet. comment icon 153 more comments It’s the kind of thing where you say to yourself, “Why did I do that again?” Not the cookies. I mean the kids. The kids doing the cookies. In our apartment which.is.tiny. And then the neighbors getting invited in from their peeking post at the window....

This pasta is inspired by an absolute favorite menu item at local Italian superstar, Mucci’s. Their take on arrabbiata sauce with fresh bucatini is truly swoon-worthy. “Arrabbiata,” meaning “angry” in Italian, is a spicy red sauce that gets its heat from simmering with red pepper flakes. Mucci’s does kind of an arrabiata+, by tossing in pepperoncini for a heat boost, as well as some Italian sausage and pancetta for a smoky savory swirl throughout....

cake batter chocolate no-bake recipes 5-ingredient recipes …Then this one’s for you. And if you don’t like those things, you’re reading the wrong blog. The Process: Stir all ingredients together except for chocolate chips. This is what my dough looked like, and then I put it in the freezer for 15 minutes. Remove Dough from freezer & Roll into balls I recommend rolling these balls much smaller than you think they should be because once you dip them in chocolate, they almost double in size....

comment icon 152 more comments There is no other name for this besides OUR FAVORITE coconut oil granola. My favorite, Bjork’s favorite, my friends’ favorite, our neighbors’ favorite. It’s a deliciously golden, rustic-feeling medley of oats, pecans, golden raisins, pistachios, and chia seeds coated with coconut oil + honey + cinnamon and baked to crunchy cluster perfection. So much to love, it’s almost hard to talk about. ♡ It makes the house smell like cinnamon heaven, and it elicits compliments from spouses like whoa, and it makes breakfast enough of an event to wake up at First Alarm....

I made these blondies while I was in Aruba but held off on posting them until now because I made them on the heels of these Coconut White Chocolate Chip Blondies and didn’t want to overwhelm anyone with blondies. I tweaked my go-to blondie recipe and the simplicity of melting a stick of butter in the microwave, adding peanut butter, brown sugar, an egg, vanilla, flour and giving it a stir makes this such a fast batter to make....

Peanut Butter Brookies Recipe A soft and chewy peanut butter cookie base with a rich fudgy brownie top, what could be better? This is a special recipe for me to post not only because it involves peanut butter and chocolate, but because I got the recipe from one of my BFF’s cookbooks, Dessert Mash-Ups. The recipe comes from Dorothy, who blogs at Crazy for Crust. Not only is she an amazing baker, but she’s also one of my best friends....

Whatever you want to call it, it just gets better with peanut butter and Nutella. Who can say no to crunchy, salty-and-sweet mixes anyway. Two trips ago to Aruba, I made these Cinnamon Sugar Chocolate Pretzels and over a year later, my husband was still talking it. Back in Aruba, and not wanting to turn on my oven or devote more than 5 minutes to making something, I figured I could reinvent and enhance that recipe....

Between Peanut Butter Comfort and the peanut butter recipes on my blog, I’ve got hundreds. So when there’s a layer of creamy peanut butter fudge sandwiched between peanut butter cookie dough, I’m in my peanut butter glory. If you like big, bold, unabashed peanut butter flavor with rich, buttery undertones, you’re going to love these. Last week I made Fudgy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars and had a half can of sweetened condensed milk left....

comment icon 217 more comments And I really love these cookies. These are the PERFECT chocolate chip cookies. I’ve made hundreds of thousands of millions of cookies in my 26 years of life, and that is a fact. Theeeeese are probably my all-time favorite. Okay, that’s hard to commit to. Because what about these? My other all-time favorite, the peanut butter chocolate chip oatmeal cookie? Can you settle knowing that these are my current all-time favorite?...