Dear friends, let’s talk. comment icon 90 more comments IT’S JUNE 1ST. I’m acting calm but this is what I’m really feeling !!!!!!!!! Is this not the best news ever? Is summer not just the most happy, soul-satisfying, amazing time of year? Are we not going to have so much fun and eat so much good food and feel so great about life over the next few months? 100% chance that I’m going to push the limits of blogger obnoxiousness with my optimism for this season and I’m not even sorry one bit....

I have so many great air fryer recipes, including Air Fryer Grilled Cheese, Potato Wedges, and Chicken Wings! I love a good chicken basket and fries as much as my kids do, and these Air Fryer Chicken Tenders win everyones approval! Serve them with baked or air fryer french fries and any favorite dipping sauces, like BBQ sauce, ranch dressing, ketchup, or Chick-fil-A sauce! If you are still a beginner, let me help you learn how to use an air fryer!...

Want more air fryer recipes? Try Air Fryer Chicken Tenders, Air Fryer Chicken Wings, and Air Fryer French Toast! Why I love Steak Cooked in the Air Fryer: Convenient– The Air Fryer makes it easy to cook a juicy steak anytime of year and in any location. Fast – From start to finish, in less than 20 minutes, with a crisp outside and juicy center. Check out my air fryer tips and tricks to get the most out of your air fryer....

Post is brought to you by Horizon Organic. The recipes, images, text, video, and opinions expressed are my own. Simple Pound Cake with Icing There is a first for everything, and after 10+ years of blogging this is the first pound cake recipe I’ve ever published. Why have I waited so long, you may ask? The simple answer is that usually I find pound cakes to be dry and boring, but since this all-butter pound cake is neither, it’s finally a recipe worth sharing!...

The freshness, crunch and delicious flavor combination of this healthy Asian Chicken Salad has me making it every chance I get! I marinate the chicken in a simple sauce that’s then converted to make salad dressing. The end result in restaurant quality, and I love that the salad can be prepared in advance. How to Make Asian Chicken Salad: Marinate chicken: whisk together soy sauce, ginger, olive oil, hoisin sauce, sesame oil, sriracha, and salt....

Want more tasty side dishes? Try this Apple Pecan Salad, Caprese Salad, Air Fryer Potato Wedges, or Jalapeño Cornbread! Why I love this side dish: Next Level – I am a huge fan of potato salads! Classic Potato Salad is yummy, but baked potato salad is amazing. It is a HIT every time I bring it to a BBQ! Delicious – It has all of the delicious flavors you love from a baked potato, transformed into a potato salad....

Baked Vanilla Donuts Recipe Making donuts at home is easier than you think! And who doesn’t love a nice warm, fresh, baked donut. That’s right, you don’t even have to fry these vanilla donuts. Instead, they’re baked and ready to go in 10 minutes. The baked donuts are tender, moist, and cakey without being dry. They are denser than fried donuts although in some ways actually feel “lighter” because they’re not fried....

Bananas that caramelize as they’re sauteed with butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon before being flambed with dark rum is a dessert that definitely holds my attention. Setting a match to a hot pan after alcohol has just been added also gets my attention but I didn’t need to ignite anything to make these little shooters. Although, making traditional bananas foster, flames and all, and then tossing the whole hot mess into a blender isn’t a bad idea....

The BEST Peanut Butter Poke Cake Recently, I made a Better-Than-Anything Chocolate Cake and it was one of the best cakes I’ve ever had. I knew I wanted to recreate a peanut butter version because I love all things peanut butter. This peanut butter poke cake is really somethings special! It’s so easy and ready in about 30 minutes. Between the peanut butter, peanut butter chips, and peanut butter cups, peanut butter lovers are going to love the bold peanut butter flavor....

Easy Blueberry Cream Cheese-Filled Muffins Recipe What could be better than a super soft, moist, and tender homemade blueberry muffin? Blueberry muffins filled with a sweetened cream cheese mixture, of course! Between an abundance of plump and juicy blueberries inside the muffins, and the tangy-sweet cream cheese filling, I also top each muffin before baking with additional blueberries which ensures that you will have tons of blueberries in every bite. Aside from all the blueberries and the cream cheese, this whisk-together muffin batter has Greek yogurt (or sour cream) in it which keeps the muffins soft, moist, and helps them rise....

Easy Maple Cookie Recipe I’ve been formulating these maple sugar cookies in my head for about a year. They’re one of the bucket list recipes I wanted to check off my list and although I’ve seen numerous recipes for brown sugar cookies, there’s always something nitpicky that I wanted to change. Generally I don’t like nuts in desserts and many times the flavors of brown sugar and maple are accompanied by cashews, walnuts, or pecans so those recipes were out....

Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups with Browned Butter There’s only so many ways to re-invent chocolate chip cookies before it’s just another chocolate chip cookie. But it’s a new year and I’m not out of ways yet. Cute cookie cups and browned butter to the rescue. These cookie cups are the solution to your prayers if you’ve ever had issues with cookies spreading. Sometimes even doing everything right including chilling the dough before baking and baking cookies on a Silpat Non-Stick Mat is not a match for cookies that decide they’re going to spread on you regardless....

But I just want to say Thank You to everyone who wrote in and complimented me on the Raw Vegan Peanut Butter Cups (3 Ingredients, 10 Mins)!! I had a huge response on these and each and every comment was sooo appreciated!!!! Thanks to new readers who came out of the woodwork as well as faithful commenters. All your input is awesome, so thank you for the lovely feedback! The PB Cups are really easy, fast, & soooo yummy....

Plus, I was looking at all the ripe bananas on my countertop here in Aruba and was wondering what I was going to do with them. If you think bananas ripen fast where you are, just c’mon down to the Equator and watch them literally ripen before your very eyes in a hot little kitchen. I aim to please especially for pregnant ladies and ingredients that Jenny uses frequently, and which I incorporated into the bars, include: Biscoff Spread – her Biscoff Stuffed White Chocolate Chip Cookies are amazing and she has so many Biscoff recipes on her site Bananas – her Chocolate Banana Bread with Marshmallow Bits is so moist Graham Cracker Crumbs – Rolo Smores Monkey Bread anyone?...

Including myself. Nevermind the fact that I’d already baked cookies and muffins in the same weekend. We all know that banana bread doesn’t count as a sugary baked dessert because, obviously, it’s bread. I know I’m not the only one with this type of logic. When making the decision about whether or not to attempt this culinary feat, I did what most normal people would do. I listed the pros and cons....

P.S. Everyone in my house loved them too, they’re almost gone! comment icon 72 more comments The discovery all started with my annual swimsuit purchase from Marshall’s. I don’t know what that says about me, because: Yet every year I seem to be able to find one suit I like, that fits, that I can afford, and today was no different. But somewhere between my parking spot and the highway, I realized that I didn’t have my wallet....

Easy Baked Oatmeal Bars This is my idea of oatmeal. Smothered with chocolate chips and a hearty dose of peanut butter stirred in. It’s like eating oatmeal in portable form, except better. Because the oatmeal my mom used to make for me didn’t include chocolate chips or peanut butter. Even though there are extra goodies that you may not normally use with your morning oatmeal, the bars still taste more like breakfast than dessert....

3-in-1 Skillet Cookie Recipe I’ve been wanting to make a skillet cookie for oh, about 3 years, and finally did it. And boy, did I do it. This goes down as one of the best cookies I’ve ever made. It’s definitely the biggest cookie I’ve ever made. Ten and one-quarter inches in diameter and about 2 inches thick. But bigger doesn’t always mean better when it comes to taste. I’ve made cookies from various cookbooks that were big but they didn’t wow me....

Start by combine all of the cake ingredients with an electric mixer. Then use a spatula to fold in the mini chocolate chips. Grease and flour your bundt pan and pour the cake mixture into it. Bake the cake for about 45 minutes and cool completely before frosting! I’ve found the easiest way to frost a chocolate bundt cake with cream cheese frosting is to use a pastry bag and coupler, with no piping tip....

comment icon 94 more comments And then I answer: ummm, lemme think. Yes. Okay, no, not really, but I still have the taste of this pomegranate wild rice salad in my mouth and dreams of the bacon and brussels sprout salad from, like, years ago in my head, so it’s only natural that this would come along. Basically these two very lovable salads of my Pinch of Yum past met and had a salad-child called Chopped Brussels Sprout Salad with Everything Yummy In The World....