Want to try more apple recipes? Here’s my Baked Apples, Apple Crisp, and Fresh Apple Cake! What I love about this applesauce: Wholesome Ingredients: All you need is apples and water, and you can sweeten the applesauce to your liking, or leave out the sugar altogether. Store-bought applesauce often has additives, and I love controlling exactly what’s in mine.EASY – Only three easy steps and no special equipment required. Canning Friendly – Use your water bath canner to can applesauce to enjoy all year round....

I can always count on my favorite cookie bar recipes when I’m looking for a quick and easy treat, and these Snickerdoodle Bars are way easier than regular snickerdoodle cookies, and just as delicious! How to Make Snickerdoodle Bars: Freezing Instructions: Freeze snickerdoodle bars for up to 3 months in a freezer-safe container. Bring to room temperature before eating. Consider trying my other favorite “cookie bars”: Butterfinger Cookie Bars M&M Cookie Bars Perfect Lemon Bars Oreo Cookie Bars Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Bars...

Strawberry lemonade is such a quintessential summer drink. Bars that taste like strawberry lemonade are even better than drinking it! These strawberry lemonade bars are what you’d get if you crossed a crumble-topped strawberry pie with a lemon bar. They’re sweet from the strawberries with some tart lemon flavor that peeks through. They’re soft, juicy, satisfying, and I love crumble-topped anything. Between the firm crust, soft filling, juicy strawberries, fragrant lemon zest, and sandy crumbles, there are so many wonderful textures and flavors in every thick bite....

Or girl? Oh girl oh girl oh girl! We don’t know, you guys. We don’t even know! But there’s a tiny human about to really rock our lives in a few short months, and we are beyond excited to meet our little yumlette. Sage, too. 👆🏼 Your responses – emails, comments, and messages – to our big news yesterday were just overwhelmingly sweet. I’ve been looking forward to the telling day for so long so I could actually share the real reason why all I want to eat right now is bread and cheese!...

comment icon 43 more comments Are there deliciously crunchy and outstandingly savory little golden crispies involved? Absolutely. Is this already wonderful springy win made even better with a fun pasta shape? Yes ma’am, bring on the bucatini! Ingredients For This Vegetable Bucatini If you’ve never had bucatini, it’s sort of like macaroni meets spaghetti. All the fun of a macaroni tube but with the long twirls and twists of spaghetti....

Easiest Orange Dessert Recipe If you like lemon bars and citrusy desserts in general, these fast, easy, one-bowl, no-mixer orange bars are just the thing for you. They’re dense and chewy, and if you’re looking for traditional lemon bars or fluffy lemon cake, this recipe isn’t that. It came to be because I adapted a very popular recipe for Lemon Lemonies and created Orangies, so to speak. So many readers have asked me on the Lemon Lemonies recipe if it can be made with an orange twist and I decided to give that a whirl....

comment icon 247 more comments I need pumpkin muffins NOW. But that oil and sugar. Dern. And so began the quest for a healthy pumpkin muffin that still tasted like a yummy pumpkin muffin. The original version of these Maple Glazed Pumpkin Muffins was actually a recipe from a bed and breakfast – cute, right? This “healthy” version follows a basic rule of halves. Half the sugar of the original, subbing real maple syrup for some but not all because DANG girl that stuff is expensive....

And please note that I use all of the products listed below, and please note that they are things that I find cute, lovable, useful, crush-worthy, delicious, and very giftable. And please note that I ♥︎ your awesome self. Today we’re talking about gift ideas for the person who loves fashion! I am lucky to have a few fashion + style lovers in my family and close inner circle (I’m looking at you Stephie) and their cuteness is always a good influence on me and my love of yoga pants/slippers....

Here are a few of the gems I’ve been salivating over: Marla’s Very Blueberry Layer Cake 2. Jess’ Balsamic Honey Tofu 3. Katie’s Creamy Cauliflower Cheeze 4. Emily’s Copycat Girl Scout Thin Mints 5. Jenna’s Oatmeal Cream Pies with Cinnamon Buttercream 6. Angela’s Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes with Vanilla Almond Buttercream Frosting & Raspberry Glaze 7. Bitt’s Creamy Basil Raw Lasgana 8. Jessica’s Peanut Butter Stuffed Hot Fudge Cupcakes I could go on and on and on with what I’ve spied lately that makes me drool me really excited....

Lindsay and I have something that we’re really excited to share with you today! We are launching a new website for food bloggers called Food Blogger Pro! Food Blogger Pro will be a membership site where we showcase everything we’ve learned over the past three years about starting and growing a food blog. We’ll tackle the most common problems that food bloggers face, covering everything from photography to technology....

wipes blueberry crisp crumbs off face Hi again IT’S MEEE. Yes, guys, it’s Saturday, and I’m breaking blog schedule and popping in with some newsies. As much as we love being at home in our T-shirts and jeans (okay fine sweats) all day, Bjork and I are getting all profesh and hitting the road this fall for some food slash blog conferencing. Beep beep! When we were living half a world away in the Philippines, I started to get that sort of buggy feeling about wanting to (brace yourself for the obnoxious term) network and eat num food and make friends by going to some conferences....

comment icon 148 more comments THIS being one of my most obnoxiously crazy, out of control, too many things all in one bowl but SO GOOD food creations of 2014. It should probably be called, in its truest deepest most honest self –> Rice and Lentil Curry Bowls with Spicy Roasted Carrots, Avocado, and Cashew Cilantro Sauce. But your mouth has better things to be doing than saying that long jumble of a food name, such as a) eating said food, b) talking about it with me, and b) smiling about the avocado slices, so we’ll just say Lentil Curry Bowl and know that all those other yums come included....

comment icon 70 more comments Would you mind if I just stopped there? Sighh. There’s more. Butter. Garlic shrimp. Fire roasted tomatoes. Whole grain penne. Parmesan? Extra? Sure. And don’t you forget about that homemade garlic alfredo sauce. I know you didn’t. Bake it, eat it, eat it again. Make a mental note to double the recipe next time. Make another mental note to stop at the store for some minty gum....

Want more yummy salads? Try this Taco Salad, Burrata Salad, Cheeseburger Salad, or this Asian Chicken Salad! How to make a Mason Jar Salad: Prep Ingredients: Chop any veggies, cook protein, make dressing, and prep ingredients. I have FOUR delicious recipes for you to mix it up with, and this recipe printable with all four recipes! Enjoy a Tortellini Caprese Salad, BBQ Chicken Salad, Greek Salad, or a Thai Inspired Salad....

Shrimp … in Avocados? Yes! I love Shrimp Ceviche and this stuffed avocado recipe has lots of similarities, but it’s served in an avocado in addition to having avocado incorporated in the shrimp mixture. I’ve made beef Taco-Stuffed Avocados before and it was about time I did it with shrimp. My daughter adored these as much as I did. They’re naturally gluten-free, easy, and ready in 15 minutes. We definitely think these are a meal but for the really hearty eaters out there, you could have a half as an appetizer before another Mexican-inspired meal....

The goal for these posts is to offer readers an all-access pass to the “business” side of Pinch of Yum. We share the good, the bad, the beautiful and the ugly involved with growing a website and turning it into a business. This is our 27th traffic and income report. You can browse through all of the previous reports in the Making Money from a Food Blog archive section. I focus on two things with these reports (1) the income and expenses and (2) the traffic....

That’s both beautiful and dangerous. This is my fifth ready-in-one-hour recipe and all are vegan, including this one. There’s One-Hour Pretzels, One-Hour Whole Wheat Pizza Dough, One-Hour Soft Buttery Breadsticks, and One-Hour Homemade Cinnamon Rolls. These are just like their predecessors. Fast, easy, ready in 1 hour, and even if you’ve never made bread before, it’s an extremely easy recipe great for newbies. Rather than the typical lengthy initial rise that most yeast recipes have (1-2+ hours), then shaping the dough before the second rise (1 + hour), this dough rises only as long as it takes your oven to preheat, about 10 minutes....

Among other things, I made a batch of Cranberry & Orange Ginger Mango Chutney which had the added bonus of making my house smell phenomenal. I had picked up an extra bag of cranberries before Thanksgiving, but never made anything with them before we left for Aruba on December 2. They’ve been parked in the freezer and taking up valuable space so I used them along with some of the new oranges in a fresh batch of cranberry sauce which is almost no work....

First, based on Jenna’s post about this book being the “best book she’s read all year” (and that woman reads tons of books), I knew I had to pick it up. One of my Intentions & Goals for 2011 was to read more. I would say that falls under Item #7 even though I didn’t specifically say it, I have mentioned before that I really want to read more books!...

Unless it’s used to make fudge. I find most protein powder is either chalky, fake tasting, or devoid of taste. This fudge is none of those things. It’s rich, dense, chewy, sweet, and chocolatey. Combining chocolate protein powder with honey, peanuts, and peanut butter is the best use ever for protein powder. Any day that I can make fudge from protein powder and things already in my cupboards is a good day....