Since this is such a simple recipe with just two basic ingredients, the quality of chocolate is really important. The higher quality of chocolate, the better they will taste, and I’ve found that Baking Chocolate works best. A cheap bag of chocolate chips will not taste as good or melt easily. High quality chocolate (or baking chocolate chips) tastes less processed, melts easier, and really helps give the strawberries a nice beautiful coat after dipping....

Funfetti Cookies From Scratch Who can say no to super soft cookies with sprinkles baked in? I sure can’t. It’s been on my bucket list to come up with a softbatch-style sugar cookie recipe that’s soft, and not at all cakey, with just hints of chewiness around the edges. And I wanted to make these from scratch, not from Funfetti cake mix. I have nothing against it, and once upon a time used cake mix a whole lot more, but these sugar cookies with sprinkles are 100% from scratch....

What Are Chilaquiles? Traditional chilaquiles are typically made from leftover corn tortillas that are first deep fried and then simmered in either red or green salsa, depending on the area in Mexico and your salsa preference, and there’s always plenty of cheese. Adding shredded chicken, pulled pork, a fried egg on top, avocado, chiles, jalapeno, salsa, cilantro, or serving with beans on the side are some of the endless variations of chilaquiles....

You can use this easy taco seasoning in a variety of Mexican recipes, like Taco Salad, Taco Pie, Mexican Pizza and Walking Tacos. The Cast of Characters: How to make Taco Seasoning: Combine: Mix all ingredients in a bowl. Voila! Use 2 Tablespoons of mix for one seasoning packet called for in a recipe. Refer to recipe card notes for single packet serving measurements. Store taco seasoning in an airtight container in your spice cupboard for up to 6 months....

S’mores by way of an unapologetically rich and decadent poke cake — two of my favorite things married into one glorious and easy dessert! You start by making a chocolate cake (I used a boxed mix but you can double this scratch recipe if you’re so inclined) and after it comes out of the oven, poke holes with the blunt end of a wooden spoon over the surface. The holes absorb a mixture of slightly melted marshmallow creme and sweetened condensed milk, which helps the cake stay incredibly moist....

How to make Taco Pie: You can also FOLLOW ME on FACEBOOK, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM and PINTEREST for more great recipes! Variations: This is a perfect recipe to adapt to use what you have, and what your family likes! Meat: Swap the chicken for cooked ground beef other leftover cooked meats like shredded beef or pork. Vegetarian: Omit the chicken and add another can of beans and additional veggies, if desired, like spinach, sautéed zucchini, and mushrooms....

Looking for more pasta recipes? Try this Tomato Basil Pasta, Manicotti, or Baked Mac and Cheese! Why I love these noodles: Easy and only 4 Ingredients Needed – Requires the most basic pantry ingredients I always have on hand and couldn’t be easier to make! No Equipment Needed – No pasta machine, drying racks, or anything fancy necessary! All you need is a good rolling pin. Taste – Like most things, you don’t realize how amazing a dish is with the extra homemade factor until you try it!...

comment icon 212 more comments And this first post is the story, in pictures, of Filipino Pancit. Source Notes: Pancit Canton, Pancit Bihon, an Bam-i are all varieties of a stir-fried noodle dish that make for some very happy birthdays at CSC. Salamat kaayo, many thanks, to sweet Auntie Febe (pictured below) for teaching me how to make this. I made my own recipe for pancit a while back but this one is my treasured recipe....

The Best PB Marshmallow Cookies When I told my daughter I was making fluffernutter cookies, she thought I was making up the word fluffernutter. I had to explain to her that flutternutter is used when there’s both fluff (marshmallows) and nutter (peanuts or peanut butter) in a recipe. I don’t know if she really believed me or not but she was a believer in the cookies. The fluffernutter cookies not only have marshmallows and peanut butter chips, but they also have crispy rice cereal....

Easy Vegan Banana Muffins These moist banana muffins embody everything I was trying to achieve. No butter, no eggs, and no mixer needed. These vegan muffins are fluffy, soft, light, and moist. And they remind me of mini donuts, a huge bonus. I have many vegan banana muffin recipes on my blog from circa 2009, but they’re anything but light and fluffy. They’re made with almond meal to keep them gluten-free and are much heavier....

Today was the day I had to reload my Produce Stash. I try to do one major grocery run per week with one, maybe two, fill-in smaller trips. Do the math, that’s 3 trips per week. Ahem, every other day. Sigh. But we’re plant-based people so we need to constantly replenish the fresh produce! Today I picked up red & green pears, bananas, and vine-ripe tomatoes Apples Carrots, Grapes, Cucumber, Red Pepper… Remember how I mentioned yesterday that I have been stalking sprouts at multiple grocery stores, but that they’ve all been out?...

Out of office! And for good reason. ❤️ For eleven years now, we’ve been going to a cabin with my family and spend the better part of ten summer days boating, eating lunch on the dock, reading, and picking wild blueberries so we can make blueberry pancakes when we wake up at 9am. We = me. It’s a slow and peaceful season that I look forward to literally all year long....

comment icon 62 more comments BELIEVE IT, kids. This is one of my all-time favorite freezer meals! Freezer Meal Wild Rice Soup can be made with or without mushrooms (but strongly recommend using them for an irreplaceable earthy flavor) and with or without chicken (totally your call)! It starts with vegetables, wild rice, and spices, and then gets creamy when you add a simple roux to the brothy soup base....

If you’re wondering what to do with all that zucchini that you have on your hands from our garden or have bought in the markets, this easy zucchini brownie recipe with chocolate chips is fabulous! The texture is more along the lines of a dense, rich, and fudgy cake. (If you want instead a classic chewy brownie recipe with a crisped top, my Chocolate Chip Brownies are perfect.) Because these chocolate zucchini brownies are definitely soft and cakey....

Strawberry Cookie Bars … From Cake Mix! My daughter loves strawberry desserts and these strawberry cookie bars bars were an instant hit with her. And anything with cream cheese frosting is automatically a head above the rest in my book. The bars are incredibly easy to make because I used strawberry cake mix. Sometimes you need shortcuts and the cake mix gives the bars exactly the consistency I want. Soft, chewy, and ironically not cakey....

Frosted Soft Chocolate Cookies There are chocolate chips and cocoa powder in the cookie dough and they’re topped with a rich, creamy, fudgy chocolate ganache. It’s what a chocaholic’s dreams are made of. The triple chocolate cookies are slightly chewy around the edges with super soft with tender, pillowy centers. The dough base is adapted from Soft Frosted Chocolate-Chocolate Chip Sprinkles Cookies and recently I made Peppermint Patty Chocolate Cookies with this dough....

No milk needed here. There’s cookie dough ice cream instead. I used one of my favorite brownie recipes because I knew it would make the perfect ‘bread’ for this sandwich. The brownies are soft, ultra fudgy, supremely moist, and they stayed pliable and didn’t freeze rock solid. They’re like biting into a classic ice cream sandwich, but instead of the traditional thin and skimpy chocolate cookies in most ice cream sandwiches, here you’ve got a rich chocolaty brownie with tooth-sinking thickness and density....

But also because I’m in Washington, D.C., and after spending a weekend eating some reallyreallyreally awesome seafood, for example, shrimp (with pineapple salsa and guac), lobster (mac and cheese), and crab (cakes with caramelized brussels sprouts), I am more than ready to sign my life away and move to a more coastal location permanently. I can’t blame my nice state for its sometimes unfresh seafood, but purely based on location, Minnesota just cannot keep up with a place like this....

Best Ever Banana and Zucchini Cake It seems that I either have no ripe bananas on hand or I have more than I know what to do with. I made this cake because it was one of those times I could have fed all the monkeys in the zoo because I had so many. I also had a little zucchini in the crisper drawer that needed to be used before it turned into a limp noodle....

Best Ever Oven Roasted Pork Loin This roasted pork loin turns out perfectly juicy and tender every time! If you’ve ever made roast pork loin in the oven before, you’ll know that it can be a finicky cut of meat to work with because it’s fairly lean and is easy to overcook. I’ve finally found a roasting method that works for me every time I want to roast a pork loin and finished dish is just so tender, juicy, flavorful, and perfect....