Easy Blackened Salmon Recipe If you’re wondering for a way to jazz up baked salmon look no further than this easy baked blackened salmon recipe. It’s so incredibly easy and the flavor that the salmon is the perfect blend of smoky, a little spicy (scale the cayenne pepper up or down to taste), a little bit sweet, and it all just works together so well. What I love about this salmon recipe is that the blackening seasoning is made with common pantry spices....

Normally we meet at this coffee shop but I suggested we take advantage of the pool since it’s been super hot. Well, it was super hot when we discussed this a few days ago but today it was crisp, cool, and very windy so we took a pass on the pool. Murphy’s Law of course that it was cool and windy today since the last two times, here and here, that we met, it was a scorcher out!...

Easiest Blueberry Pancakes (in the Oven!) If you’re like me and the thought of making pancakes one-by-one while being chained to the stove isn’t your idea of a fun weekend morning, then this recipe is just for you. I rarely make pancakes because they are more work than I want when I’m still half asleep and need a cup of coffee. But to satisfy my daughter’s request for pancakes, I made these extremely easy oven baked pancakes....

This brown sugar pineapple glazed ham will become an instant family favorite holiday meal! Whether you plan to make this for Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas dinner, or another special family meal, it is sure to impress everyone! A dry spice rub mixture including brown sugar, cinnamon, allspice, and pineapple is rubbed all over a spiral ham. Then, the most delectable pineapple ham glaze made from brown sugar, orange and pineapple juices, and bourbon is boiled together and then poured over the ham....

Easy Butternut Squash and Sausage Soup Recipe Squash is the perfect versatile fall ingredient. Whether you want to make Stuffed Acorn Squash with sausage which is a full meal, a lighter Roasted Butternut Squash Soup, or Sweet and Spicy Acorn Squash as a side dish, nothing says fall like squash. For this hearty soup, I used butternut squash which is naturally a bit sweet and it’s the perfect contrast to the slightly spicy ground Italian sausage and fire-roasted tomatoes....

What’s better than cinnamon rolls? Cinnamon rolls with apples and caramel sauce, of course. I love cinnamon rolls and the moister, softer, and gooier they are, the better. This cinnamon roll casserole with apples delivers big time. It’s one of the best things I’ve made in ages. Seriously. The gooey factor of a Cinnabon plus apples and caramel sauce. The recipe is easy, ready in 30 minutes, and you don’t even have to make scratch cinnamon roll dough....

Easy Caramel Apple Crumble Pie Recipe I love the heartiness, chewiness, and texture that oats lend to apple crumbles, and my goal for this caramel apple pie was to be more like an apple crumble than just another plain old apple pie. There was nothing plain about this. I poured the filling into a frozen pie crust straight from the freezer without even thawing it, and filled it right up to the brim....

comment icon 214 more comments Do I need to go on? Because the word caramelized pretty much speaks itself straight into my soul. There’s just something about food – any food, including but not limited to meat and vegetables – that becomes sweet and salty and textured and browned into some kind of caramelized dream that makes me never want to stop eating. It’s regular food meets candy meets me floating on food lovers’ cloud nine....

Today’s recipe is inspired by my childhood love of honey roasted peanuts as well those nuts that you can get from the mall around the holidays. The kind of nuts that the scent wafts through the air and drives you insane and you just have to have them. The kind of nuts, that once you pop, you can’t stop. Yes, those nuts that you eat a a big container at once and give yourself a belly ache because nuts are hard to digest and not to mention, peanuts have aflatoxin....

Welcome to the most creamy, luscious, medium-spicy, weeknight-manageable, must-have-it-NOW chicken tikka masala. comment icon 372 more comments Check Out Our Video For How To Make Chicken Tikka Masala: It is everything you want tikka masala to be: packed with flavor, with just enough browned bits on your chicken to keep it interesting, tangy but also rich, with that signature bronze-orange tikka masala color. Scoop it up over hot rice with a shower of fresh cilantro and you are in tikka masala biz-ness....

If you’re a seafood lover don’t miss our Salmon Tacos, Crawfish Étouffée, Clam Chowder, Seafood Pasta, and Shrimp and Grits! Tips for buying seafood: With all seafood you buy, make sure you smell it! There should not be a strong fishy odor; It should smell like nothing, or like the ocean. If you don’t live near the ocean, frozen seafood is great and accessible, just be sure to thaw it in the refrigerator overnight before using....

Ultra Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies … Without Butter! If you think cookies made without any butter mean making a sacrifice in the taste department, think again. No butter, no problem. You definitely won’t miss it. These coconut oil chocolate chip cookies are very similar to my favorite Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies. I loved them and wanted to see what would happen if I omitted all the butter and replaced it with coconut oil....

And at the very bottom of that screenshot, there’s a link to my Chocolate Saltine Toffee that the editors at Martha Stewart apparently found via Foodgawker Trust me when I say I nearly spit my coffee all over my screen in a state of disbelief because I seriously thought it was just a notification from one of those spammy sites that takes my content and reprints it in entirety on their site....

The BEST Slow Cooker Fiesta Chicken Recipe With back-to-school season just around the corner, having an easy chicken dinner recipe in your back pocket that the whole family loves is such a relief! This slow cooker fiesta chicken is just that recipe. There’s tender shredded chicken mixed together with cream cheese, salsa, black beans, corn, green chiles, fiesta ranch seasoning mix, and an array of other spices. It’s got a great Mexican meets Tex-Mex vibe to it....

comment icon 96 more comments First of all, there’s papery thin vegetables (cucumber! shallot!) and a whole lot of herbs (mint! cilantro! add more, more, more!). And secondly, there’s a beautiful pile of clumpy fried golden red curry jasmine rice – it’s crisped and golden on the outside, but soft and carby enough on the insides to still absorb some of the limey, garlicky, salty vinaigrette with all the flavor....

Everything on this list: I’ve used for years I use it daily and swear by it Can be found at a drugstore, grocery store, Target, etc. Is under $5 bucks And they work. I’d stack any of these products up against pricier counterparts and would still choose these items. In no particular order Original Carmex Stick I have this in every purse, gym bag, in multiple rooms in my house, on my desk, in my bathroom, on my night table, in our cars....

Air Fryer Zucchini Fritters Recipe When summer is in full swing and zucchini is so abundant and you’re wondering what to do with it all, look no further than this super tasty recipe for air fryer zucchini fritters. The zucchini fritters are lightly crisped on the outside, tender but not mushy on the inside, and there’s carrots and onions for extra flavor. I also add a bit of cheddar cheese to make them extra tasty, plus garlic, salt, and pepper, of course....

The Easiest Carrot Cake (From Scratch!) When it’s done right, carrot cake with cream cheese frosting is one of my favorite indulgences. And this is my new favorite recipe for carrot cake. I’m really picky about carrot cake. Just like when I dissected Lemon Bars and pointed out many things that could go awry from dog biscuit-like crust to lackluster lemon oomph, carrot cake is also ripe for caketastrophes, with the number one issue being dryness....

I adapted this recipe from the Food Nanny, as I knew I wanted a great base for an Italian bread that was crusty on the outside and soft inside, but had a sturdy enough crumb to hold its own when hot soup was added. The end result is absolutely perfect and will take your soup-for-dinner experience to a new level! 6 Pantry Ingredients: 8 Simple Steps for Homemade Bread Bowls: Proof the yeast – Combine the water, yeast, and ½ teaspoon of the sugar in a small bowl....

Looking for more Mexican recipes? Try my Tacos Al Pastor, Chicken Quesadillas or Horchata. Ingredients Needed: Tomato Sauce Flour: to thicken the sauce. For a gluten-free version, substitute 1 tablespoon cornstarch for the flour. Beef Broth: Vegetable broth of chicken broth would also work. Oil: vegetable, canola or avocado oil. Dry Spices: Oregano, chili powder, cumin, salt and pepper Garlic How to make Red Enchilada Sauce: Stir oil, flour, chili powder, cumin and oregano in a saucepan on low heat until bubbly....