If your fridge is stocked with apples, you’ve come to the right place! Don’t miss our hugely popular Apple Crisp or my personal favorite Fresh Apple Cake! Talk about HEAVEN in a bowl, this Caramel Apple Dip tastes amazing and only takes 5 minutes to make! It makes a fun appetizer, treat or casual dessert for any party or potluck. How to make Caramel Apple Dip: Beat cream cheese in a stand mixer or large mixing bowl, until smooth....
Items 1 through 5 are here. 6. A personal masseuse to come over for weekly house calls. My entire body back is prone to major issues and I am a massage junkie. I would love pay Heather or Christin to be on-call. photo source 7. Bedding. Luxurious, amazing, wonderful bedding. You can never have too many sets of 1000 thread count Egyptian cotton sheets on hand, right? My bedding is West Elm but I always love new bath + bedding items....
Last weekend we did a 24-hour vacation/road trip to a little place called Moalboal. On motorcycle. If you really want to get to know your spouse, ride on a small motorcycle in the blazing hot sun with two fat backpacks for a few hours together. Ok, I joke. I loved it. For the record, this spontaneous thing is not my typical kind of vacation. Trip Advisor and travel research of any kind takes over my life at least 1 year prior to our actual travel dates....
Easy Chicken and Gnocchi Soup Recipe This fast and easy chicken gnocchi soup recipe is a copycat from Olive Garden. If you’re American, you know Olive Garden. If you’re not, it’s a fast-casual chain restaurant serving up Italian-inspired dishes that lean heavily onto the comfort food side of things. And comfort food is this soup’s middle name! There’s an abundance of shredded chicken among tender gnocchi, along with onions, carrots, and garlic for layers of flavor....
Teriyaki Steak Bites Recipe Beef tips are a comfort food favorite that are sure to please everyone. My teriyaki beef bites are tender and juicy and the homemade pineapple-infused teriyaki sauce that they’re smothered in provides a wonderful flavor boost. These steak tips are a cinch to make and ready in a half hour. To save even more time, feel free to use a store-bought teriyaki sauce or pineapple teriyaki sauce!...
Let’s talk juicy, delicious, barely-breaded, pan-fried chicken soaked in peppery lemon flavor and served with tender bites of asparagus and honey butter-ish sauce. comment icon 400 more comments Or, let’s not, and just go ahead and start making it for dinner. Super Simple Ingredients Shall we count the short, sweet list for this Lemon Chicken together? 👏 CHICKEN 👏 ASPARAGUS 👏 FRESH LEMONS 👏 FLOUR 👏 LEMON PEPPER And a little bit of butter, and a little bit of salt, but you already have those things I bet, so I’m counting those as freebies....
Here’s the main thing I want to tell you: I am using this 12-inch skillet for dinner literally almost every night and it is awesome. It’s wider than my other pans, so I can comfortably cook 4-6 pieces of salmon or chicken. It has great browning and release properties. It’s PFAS free. It’s made in the USA. And I just really love it. I know (because people tell me!) that a lot of us enjoy the ease and maintenance of cooking with nonstick, but struggle to find a nonstick product that is well-made, stands the test of time, and is manufactured by a transparent and reliable brand that they can trust....
There’s nothing really extraordinary about my particular story: I experienced a tragedy, it changed me forever, and I wanted to physically ink my body to reflect my newness. I wanted to carry my story and my sweet baby boy in a way that was visible to myself and others. It’s meaningful, and empowering, and also, it’s a pretty basic tattoo story. Sometime between the blur of January and February and March, post-hospital, post-loss, post-trauma, when all I could really do with myself was think about ways to memorialize Afton, I made list upon list of things that I called my Grief Calendar....
Chicken Parmesan Pasta Bake Recipe This parmesan chicken casserole is pure, unadulterated comfort food that’s hearty, cozy, and will put a smile on your face. Juicy bites of chicken are nestled within al dente fusilli pasta and everything is tossed in marinara sauce before being layered with mozzarella cheese and baked until the cheese melts. There’s also Parmesan cheese and a buttery panko breadcrumb topping, which is the best part of the whole dish for me....
I used 100th Birthday Oreos I dirtied so many dishes I ran out of dishwashing liquid. The bowls are these (someone always asks) Sprinkles were used with reckless abandon. I made something kind of like these, but not exactly. I’ve also been editing pictures like a mad woman and have been staring at green food. My next post is so green. As in, St. Paddy’s Day green. It’s my best recipe in 2012, to date, and it’s coming up next....
Sometimes I make a recipe according to the lavish ideas I have rolling around inside my head and get so excited when I’m about to pull my newest creation from the oven, only to discover it didn’t go quite like I planned. Or worse, I have a cake-tastrophe. In the case of these brownies, I didn’t get what I planned. I got more than I planned, in the best way....
Looking for more grilling recipes? Try Cedar Plank Salmon, Steak Kabobs, Easy Grilled Pizza, or the Best Black Bean Burger! Why I love this recipe: Healthy – Packed with veggies and protein, these chicken rice bowls will make you feel your best!Grilled – It keeps the kitchen clean, and the grilled flavor on the chicken and veggies just can’t be beat! Make-Ahead – Make the sauce, marinate the meat, and chop the veggies ahead of time, so dinner won’t take any time at all!...
Smores Layer Cake Recipe This three-layer smores cake is a definitely a showstopper and is comprised of so many wonderful textures and flavors. There’s a graham cracker crust which lends a sugary, sandy, crunch under a moist, soft, and tender chocolate cake. The chocolate cake layers are divided by a thick, smooth, marshmallow buttercream that is rich and decadent. On top of the cake there’s a thin layer of marshmallow fluff that’s then topped with homemade marshmallows....
comment icon 195 more comments This is BLENDER lemon pie and it is for people who are honestly just too lazy to make pie. Eggs, butter, sugar, and literally a WHOLE LEMON get buzzed up in the blender and baked in a pie crust, and I swear what comes out of the oven is nothing short of springy, custardy, simple lemon magic. My grandma passed away a few years ago, but she used to call this Arizona Blender Lemon Pie, because, as you might recall if you are a longlonglongtime reader, she had lemon trees in her Arizona backyard, and she loved lemon desserts as I will remind you by pointing you in the direction of one of my first ever POY recipes....
comment icon 186 more comments But the butternut squash is just the beginning. In case you didn’t notice by the longest blog title ever, there is a ton of good stuff in this mac and cheese, because sometimes I just need to add in everything. And by everything, I mean caramelized onions, fresh crispy sweet apples, and crispy bacon Are you in love yet? My stomach is happy and so are my skinny jeans and so is my husband....
I thought about just sprinkling it on a salad, but that wouldn’t have been as fun as muffins. You’re thinking, oh but that sounds like a lot of work, baking and muffin-making rather than salad sprinkling. Wrong. Dump everything in one bowl, stir a few times, pour into liners, and bake. The recipe only makes six muffins and because I don’t need any more than half of a dozen little white bread nuggets made with with cheese and olive oil just laying around, I am always grateful for small-batch recipes....
Easy Toffee Cookie Recipe One of my favorite cookies are my blog are these Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies And one of my favorite, but underused, add-ins are toffee bits. Why not combine the two? So I did. I recently saw Heath Milk Chocolate Toffee Bits in the Target baking aisle and promptly tossed them in my cart for a rainy day. Toffee bits remind me of riding my bike to Dairy Queen for Heath Bar Blizzards during the summer when I was a kid....
You know I love a good bowl recipe! Make sure to try my Hawaiian Bowl, Hot Honey Salmon Bowl, Jerk Chicken Bowl, and this Korean Ground Beef Bowl. How to make Chicken Shawarma: Marinate Chicken: Mix the shawarma marinade ingredients together then marinate the thighs for at least one hour or overnight. Cook jasmine rice according to package instructions. Make the tzatziki sauce by combining all the ingredients in a bowl....
What Is a Buddha Bowl? Why is it called a Buddha bowl? Because it’s stuffed to the max and round in the middle just like Buddha. This sweet potato buddha bowl is a cousin of my Chickpea and Kale Glow Bowls. I love the dressing so much that there’s also a very similar version of it in this Tahini Chicken Salad. It’s creamy without being heavy, complements the plant-based nature of the bowls, and lends major flavor oomph....
This weekend should be about chips Raw Vegan Cheezy Kale Chips Chocolate Coconut Kale Chips Vegan GF Crackers (Homemade Mary’s Crackers, can make sweet or savory) Dips “Spicy Doritos” Cheezy Dip Sweet Corn Salsa with Mango, Lime, Red Pepper “Cheater’s” Guacamole And maybe some Trips Mexico City: Themes from a Photographic Tour of Mexico City Food & Light: Favorite Images & Judging Aruba Vacation Highlights, May 2011 And of course, time with your friends & family!...
