So I made pancakes that taste like gingerbread cookies. I recently posted recipes for Soft Molasses Coconut Oil Crinkle Cookies and Soft and Chewy Gingerbread Molasses Chocolate Chip Bars and wanted to branch out. The cookies are likely my new go-to-and-forever recipe for soft molasses cookies, and the bars are one of the best things I’ve made in 2013. Like eating a piece of gingerbread-molasses fudge. Seriously decadent, spicy, bold, chocolaty, and rich....

Mint and Chocolate Fudge Oreo Bars – Nearly no-bake, easy, and the combination of rich chocolate fudge and mint is a keeper Homemade Baileys Irish Cream – Make in less than 1 minute in a blender. You’ll wonder why you haven’t always been making it at home Triple Layer Fudgy Mint Oreo Brownies – One of the most-pinned recipes on my site, with over 250,000 pins. People seem to like these...

Sweet Potato Black Bean Enchiladas Recipe These black bean sweet potato enchiladas are pure comfort food. But on the healthier side. Warm sweet potatoes, slightly spicy corn, and beans, all smothered in cheese and red sauce. They’re satisfying and hearty, and you’ll never miss the meat. My family didn’t even realize they were vegetarian until I told them. And to keep the enchiladas vegan, just swap the cheese for vegan cheese....

Thai Chicken Salad with Peanut Dressing This Thai peanut salad is easy, ready in 20 minutes, healthy, and packed with so many different flavors and textures. Just looking at it makes me smile because it feels like I’m eating the rainbow. And I love peanut sauce. Always have, always will. Peanut sauce makes everything taste amazing including this Thai peanut chicken salad that’s loaded with veggies and topped with the heavenly sauce....

When it bakes, the top has a nice crispy coating over the flaky crust. The center is full of sweet and tart tender apples with just the right amount of cinnamon and sugar. This really is the BEST apple pie! The Best Apple Pie Recipe (From Scratch!) It’s been a long time since I made this Caramel Apple Crumble Pie, which has been a reader favorite for closing in on a decade!...

How to Make Banana Bread Brownies: Mix we Ingredients: Cream butter and sugar: Beat in the sour cream and eggs, bananas and vanilla extract. Add dry ingredients: flour, baking soda, salt, and mix just until moistened. Stir in walnuts, if using. Bake: Pour batter into a 9×13 inch baking pan or half sheet pan. For a 9×13’’ pan, bake for 23-28 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean or with few crumbs....

Want more tasty desserts? You have to try this Flourless Chocolate Cake, Scotcheroos, Chocolate Brownies, and Lemon Bars! How to make S’mores Cookies: Make Cookie Dough: Cream together butter and sugars for 2-3 minutes. Mix in egg and vanilla. Add flour, graham cracker crumbs, baking soda, and salt and mix. Stir in chocolate chips. Bake: Scoop cookie dough into 2-Tablespoon-size balls and place on baking sheet. Press down on each ball to flatten it slightly....

…I got quite a few comments from readers who are having a hard time getting their at-home tofu attempts to turn out like they hoped. Never fear, I have some tips. Here are some of my Tofu-Making Suggestions and Tips: For anyone who doesn’t “like” tofu, it’s likely because of the preparation technique. Then again, Katie told me no matter what, she just doesn’t like it. Fair enough. In my opinion, raw/uncooked tofu is mushy, bland, and gross....

And I’ve made Trail Mix Cookies, but I’ve never baked protein bars into cookies. The idea came to me in an effort to use some of the oodles of protein bars I bought. I go through spurts every couple years where I fall in love with protein bars, buy them by the case to save money, lose interest, forget about them, and move onto something else. I put my stash to work by dicing two protein bars, made a brown sugar-based dough, and added the protein bars along with my favorite trail mix add-ins....

Growing up I loved my moms’ Creme de Menthe Bars but since I am a gluten & soy-free vegan, and the traditional recipe is very heavy on dairy, eggs, and crumb-cookie crusts, I had some major tweaking to do. But I succeed and present you with: Averie’s Vegan Creme de Menthe Bars-No Bake/Gluten & Soy-Free This is a 3 Layered Bar: The Chocolate Base/Crust, the White Minty Buttercream-Inspired Middle Layer, and the Chocolate Mint Top Layer....

Thai Coconut Curry Noodle Recipe These Thai-inspired curry noodles are super quick, flavorful, and mildly spicy with that familiar, takeout-style coconut curry flavor. With the help of an Instant Pot or on your stovetop, this dish can be made in 10 minutes at home with minimal ingredients or fuss. As a bonus, they’re healthy comfort food that’s easy, naturally vegan and gluten free since the recipe calls for rice noodles....

Hearty Chicken and Kale Soup Recipe My family loves soup, and I love making it for them because with soup there are always leftovers. Bonus for the cook and a game-changer on busy days. This chicken and kale soup is easy, ready in 30 minutes, hearty, healthy, gluten, and dairy-free. The ultimate comfort food, it’s packed with flavor and texture. Even for those who think that soup can’t make a meal, this one will change your mind....

Thick & Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup This creamy chicken noodle soup is hearty, comforting, full of rich flavors, and will be an instant family favorite. It’s ready in 30 minutes, making it perfect for busy weeknights, especially during cold weather. This is also a wonderful, quick meal to make when friends and family come over during the holidays. It’s a soup everyone is sure to love, but it can be whipped up in no time....

Easiest Beef Lasagna Recipe My family loves lasagna, but I don’t love making traditional lasagna. Too much work and it takes too long. How’s that for being brutally honest. That’s where this easy, 30-minute, one-skillet lasagna comes into play. There’s Italian-seasoned ground beef with sweet Vidalia onions and garlic for layers of flavor along with tender lasagna noodles that are coated with tomato sauce. You don’t even have to boil the noodles separately....

comment icon 929 more comments I’ve been just WAITING for the right time to share this sauce, and by waiting I do definitely mean hoarding. Friends, readers, good sauce loving people of the world: let me introduce you to 5 Minute Magic Green Sauce. Prefer To Watch Instead Of Read? Here’s What We’re Talking About Loaded with avocados, garlic, parsley, cilantro, olive oil, jalapeño, lime juice, salt, and pistachios, it might be my favorite sauce (read: dressing, marinade, dip, spread) I’ve made ever ever ever....

Looking for more air fryer recipes? Try Buffalo Chicken Meatballs, Salmon Bowls, Air Fryer French Toast, or Air Fryer Chicken Tenders! Why I love this recipe: Delicious – The air fryer is my favorite way to cook salmon, and these air fryer salmon bites make a fun appetizer or would be delicious served in a bowl, over sushi rice, with veggies on the side and remoulade sauce on top! The Sauce – We tested several types of sauces to serve with these, but this easy remoulade sauce was the clear winner, and pairs perfectly....

comment icon 116 more comments This recipe — side note: can we still call it a recipe if it’s 5x easier than mac and cheese from a box? doing it — is for hungry hungry hippos like yours truly who want 1) HEALTHY and 2) EASY food sitting on their table, like, ten minutes ago. And also may or may not have access to a kitchen. Serious. This one pot wonder is a healthy combination of chewy farro aka my latest food obsession, white beans, tomato sauce (Dear DeLallo, I luv you and thank you for not adding sugar or other unnecessary things to your dreamy tomato basil sauce), tender bright green baby kale, halved grape tomatoes, and a handful of Asiago or Parmesan or – I’m gonna go there – shredded taco cheese if you don’t have anything else and you need to finish up a bag of it left over from your enchiladas verdes last week....

One-Pan Chicken and Potatoes Recipe I’ve never met a sheet pan meal I didn’t love. One pan, cleanup is a breeze, and this baked chicken and potatoes recipe is ready in 30 minutes. There’s tons of flavor from the salsa and it helps keep the chicken perfectly moist and juicy. The potatoes are soft and the crisp-tender crunch from the bell peppers is a perfect contrast. What’s in Baked Salsa Chicken and Potatoes?...

Time for a fun-fun-fun chat! Today is all about BEAUTY! It’s our beauty show-and-tell day, which is putting the Fun in February Fun Series. A few weeks ago, I went to a cabin for a long weekend with some friends. One of my favorite things we did on one of our lazy mornings together was getting out our makeup bags and doing a show-and-tell of our favorite makeup and beauty products over second and third cups of coffee....

Let me count the ways… Being Practical #1: Grocery shopping and stocking up on some produce for the weekend Being Practical #2: Grapes were on sale for $1.99/pound. Sure beats the $3.99/pound they were earlier in the week when I had picked up a bunch only to realize at checkout they were going to be $9.76. So I told the cashier to forget about those, but she said they’re going on sale tomorrow....