comment icon 187 more comments This pumpkin pasta is especially here for you if you enjoy: Fall flavors Warm, toasty things Rosemary and garlic and butter Foods with contrasting silky / crispy texture Pumpkin as a life theme Big floppy rigatoni noodles Like, things that taste really good? This month we’re taking the pledge to #ChooseLunch, and is there really a better lunch to look forward to in the fall than creamy pumpkin pasta with rosemary walnut crispies?...

What Is a Cruffin? If you’ve never jumped on the cruffin bandwagon, now is your chance! Cruffins are a cross between a croissant and a muffin. Sometimes they’re filled with custards or other fillings, and they’re always super flaky and buttery. This super easy pumpkin spice cruffin recipe is ready in 20 minutes and takes advantage of refrigerated crescent roll dough, otherwise called croissant dough. As much as I love ordering handmade cruffins at the bakery, I wasn’t about to make croissant dough from scratch!...

comment icon 131 more comments First of all, these Queso Stuffed Poblanos are everything. HONESTLY. Those mild, delicious green poblanos are cut in half and filled with a fluffy white rice mixture that has been simmered in a quick homemade tomato-onion-cilantro type sauce and stirred into happy goodness with sautéed mushrooms and spinach, and of course, a very large handful of melty cheese. They are then popped into the oven to become something reeeeeally savory and delicious....

Brunch is definitely the best meal of the day! Try my Homemade Scones, Eggs Benedict, Crepes, or French Toast Casserole! How to make Quiche Lorraine: Par-Bake Pie Crust: and Place a peice if parchement paper in the unbaked pie shell and add pie weights or dry rice or beans to weigh it down. Bake pie crust at 350 degrees F for 8 minutes. Remove from oven and remove pie weights....

Easy Spiced Pumpkin Chex Mix Chex mix is so addicting and once I start eating it, it’s so hard to stop. One handful turns into five. Whoops. And then I made another batch. What makes this version even more dangerous is how fast and easy it is. No baking or slow cookers required! The pumpkin Chex mix is salty-and-sweet, crunchy, crispy, slightly chewy, and there are so many flavors and textures in every bite....

Fluffer is marshmallows. Nutter is peanut butter. Two of my favorite ingredients in one cookie. And they’re some of the best cookies I’ve ever made. For the cookies, I used my recipe for Reese’s Pieces Soft Peanut Butter Cookies. It’s been very popular with readers and the cookies are supremely soft, squishy, tender, and moist, with just a tiny amount of chewiness. Reese’s Pieces and chocolate chips are abundantly studded throughout the very peanut buttery dough....

comment icon 125 more comments This low-key puttanesca is a marriage of steamy, sticky noodles, and a silky, olive-oil-heavy, garlicky sauce made with loads of fresh vegetables (yes, vegetables). A knob of butter gets melted into the noodles / sauce to turn up the sauciness, and then, for its final act, the whole thing gets jazzed up with lemon and capers and maybe olives, if you like. It can be topped with some fresh parsley, but also, a little more lemon, salt, and pepper because no, sorry, we don’t quit....

I’m checking in for the monthly Pinch of Yum income report. Just over a year ago Lindsay and I decided to start tracking the income that came from this blog. Our hope is that these posts are inspirational and educational. Inspirational in that you can see that’s it’s possible to create an income from a food blog (not always easy, but possible). Educational in that you can see exactly how we’re doing it....

comment icon 75 more comments I’ve always loved Mexican food (read: an excuse to douse food in salsa) and my food senses will always steer me in the direction of a Mexican restaurant when it’s that glorious time to do my favorite thing of all time which is called Go Out to Eat. Chips and salsa, enchiladas, chilaquiles, tostadas, and carnitas – more more more. On the Mexican food spectrum, I can’t say my tastes are super refined or sophisticated....

I decided I would double the soup recipe, since it only made 4 servings and there are a whopping two of us in this house. Irrational logic, perhaps, but moving on. In doubling the soup recipe, I also took the liberty to double the croutons. Which means that we supposedly had 8 servings of croutons. Now, I am a math expert (just ask my 4th graders), so 8 servings minus 2 servings leaves 6 servings of croutons....

Loaded Cookie Cake Pie Recipe I love M&M’s cookies. Something about the buttery dough and the M&M’s peering out make them so hard to resist. I have quite a collection of M&M’s recipes. These cookies being my best and favorite M&M’s cookies, and there’s this version which I love for springtime. There’s Loaded M&M Oreo Cookie Bars which is one of the most popular recipes on my site along with Triple Peanut Butter Cookie Pie with M&M’s....

Enjoy! Jenna’s Coconut Curried Sweet Potato Soup Leanne’s Light Quinoa and Avocado Tabbouleh Verrines White On Rice’s Fried Minted Artichokes Brown Eyed Bakers’ Classic Egg Salad Katie’s Homemade Mustard Marla’s Sun Dried Tomato Hummus with Crispy Chips Chelsey’s Vegan Carrot Lentil Burgers Paula’s Spaghetti con Olive e Limone {Spaghetti with Olives and Lemon} A Cozy Kitchen’s Coconut Curry Fried Rice Gena’s Sunshine Salad with Pineapple Ginger Dressing Ashley’s Chickpea Herbed Veggie Burgers...

Best Pumpkin Coffee Cake with Crumb Topping This pumpkin crumb cake makes me want to curl up on the couch with a cup of coffee, a blanket, a big ol’ piece of cake, and savor every cozy moment. This is such a fast and easy recipe, and you don’t even have to use a mixer. I used oil rather than butter so there’s nothing to cream, which I love. If you’re in need of a quick and easy recipe that tastes like a million bucks, save this one....

comment icon 79 more comments And so this is where I test your allegiance to Pinch of Yum. Trust? It’s hard for me to articulate why I love this seemingly bizarre-o combination so much. But I think it has something about the therapeutic nature of sauteing lots of peppers and tomatoes and garlic, the sizzle of the red wine in the hot pan, the briny bursts of capers (my favorite) followed by sweet bites of golden raisins, plus just enough heat from the pickled jalapeños to playfully bite back....

comment icon 12 more comments I remember when Applebees came to the small town that I grew up in during my senior year. That was the year that everyone lived for rides in the Corsi, zebra shorts (honestly, what?), and of course – those Half Price Apps after 9pm. And then I remember going to college and still loving the Half Price Apps. On a weekly basis. And then I remember one of my friends and I investigating the health horrors of all the Half Price Apps....

Want more Kid Friendly Recipes? My kids love American Goulash, Hawaiian Haystacks, and Breakfast Taquitos! Why I love this meal: Pantry Ingredients – The perfect budget friendly meal that requires basic ingredients you may already have on hand.From Scratch – The homemade meatballs and sauce are what really set this recipe apart, and they’re both very easy to make. Easy enough that the kids could even make this one....

Home again, home again, jiggity jog! Wowsa – these last few weeks have been quite the ride. From conferences to video work to photography workshops, from the West Coast to the South to more of the Midwest – we’ve gotten AROUND, yo. It’s been really awesome and a season full of excitement and sweetness and I’m so thankful to have my partner in crime sitting in the front seat of that rented Prius with me....

comment icon 110 more comments Oh, we love so many things about this one. It is super fast and so very customizable because you can play around with your protein and veg. We found it to be great for the whole fam, too. Like for example, if your kiddos find soup-eating to be the literal hardest thing in the world? Cool, cool, no prob – you can pull out the tofu and veg and just serve it on rice for them without the broth (more for you)....

comment icon 121 more comments This is the easiest and best way I’ve ever made chicken EVER. Period. I’m not even going to beat around the bush about it – you need to know the secret to this 3 Ingredient Grilled Chicken right this very second. The secret is equal parts: soy sauce honey water (and a few cloves of smashed garlic) And chicken, doh. Ummm hi, that’s all. Honestly, I’d like to keep you around because we’re internet besties and we have good times together, but you probably don’t even need to look at the rest of this post because I bet you can not only get started making this grilled chicken in the next two minutes – you can actually just tuck that combination in your head (try chanting it to commit to memory: equal parts soy sauce, honey, and water – very good, friends) and keep it filed away for all your future grilled chicken needs....

I started cooking from a very young age, and this homemade waffle recipe is one of my earliest memories of making by myself, for my family. They were a staple of my childhood and are truly the best Belgian waffles recipe for light and fluffy waffles. Belgian Waffles vs Regular Waffles: Belgian waffles are thicker and often larger than regular waffles because they are made with a waffle iron that has deeper grids....