We love dinner that’s cooked in less than 30 minutes, that’s healthy and kid-friendly! Like these Vegetarian Enchiladas, What I LOVE about these Black Bean Quesadillas: How to Make a Black Bean Quesadilla: Make veggie filling: Sauté onion and bell pepper in a little bit of oil and saute for 1-2 minutes. Add garlic and saute for 30 seconds. Add black beans, corn, salsa, brown sugar, cumin and chili powder and stir to combine....
Want more tasty appetizers? Try my Caprese Salad, Beer Bread, Air Fryer Chicken Wings, or Easy Homemade Crab Cakes! Why I love this recipe: Easy – Only 4 ingredients and 15 minutes to make the best buffalo chicken dip. It really couldn’t be more simple! Accompaniments – choose your favorite bread, crackers, chips, or veggies for dipping. Inexpensive Game-Day Appetizer– sports enthusiasts go crazy for this one, and it’s cheap to make from home....
Hot Caramel Macchiato Recipe If there’s one drink that I’m prone to ordering when I go to a coffee shop, it’s a caramel macchiato. I have a passion for all things caramel. This easy, at-home recipe tastes amazing, you’ll save yourself a trip to the coffee shop, and your wallet will thank you, too. It’s perfect for chilly weather, holiday brunches, or as ‘dessert’ after a holiday meal and celebration you’re hosting....
As you may recall, I recently jumped on the Dulse Flake bandwagon. Oh, but wait, there’s another bandwagon hotter than a Bikram studio for me to jump on. Chia Seeds, and actually Chia Pudding to be exact. It seems all the cool kids are doing it. Kristin’s got her Holiday Chia Pudding recipe. And, then Angela just posted this lovely Repair & Recover Recipe. Really, chia seeds can repair me?...
Our fruit bowl is full, and guess what it’s full of? Not mangoes, because I married a mango beast who finds a way to eat 3782 mangoes every day. It’s full of apples and oranges. WHAT?! Who am I right now? I am living in a paradise of fresh, sweet, juicy tropical fruit and somehow my fruit bowl is full of oranges and apples? Nooooo! Please tell me I’m not the only one who is on auto pilot grocery shopping....
My kitchen was looking a little ugly, or shall I say messy, for awhile this weekend. Turning on the oven and baking was my solution to turning on the heat. A little oven heat tends to be my favorite way to heat up the house. If I can make bake and heat things up with cookie-making or baking, that’s a happy day. I made cookies similar to Snickers Bar Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies, except I stuffed them with something else....
Welcome fellow food lovers! If you like cheese, read on. Meatless Meatballs are my new favorite thing. Along with baby pugs (but that’s nothing new), fall boots, Pumpkin Spice Lattes, and Prison Break. I’m usually about 5 years behind on these things. But the meatless meatballs? Unless people have been making tons of meatless meatballs and I missed it, I don’t feel like I’m 5 years behind on this one....
Looking for more soup recipes? Try Cioppino, Beef Noodle Soup, Broccoli Cheese Soup, or Pozole Verde! Why I love this recipe: Comforting – One of my favorite soups to enjoy on a chilly day, homemade Chicken and Dumplings soup hits the spot every single time! Crowd Pleaser – Every age family member loves this meal. It’s full of flavor, loaded with fresh veggies and homemade dumplings and lower in sodium than store-bought....
comment icon 122 more comments It’s pumpkin loving me, still here, still going strong, even though it’s November tomorrow. Lots of shock and denial about that going on up in the brain, because November equals the start of the holiday season which equals the start of Big Bad Winterrrr here in Minnesota. I’ve worn my fuzzy hat like five times already this week and my teeth are chattering nonstop. Basically what happened in this recipe is that everything good about fall went and got all cozy together in a pan just in time for dinner....
For our 5th recipe in the FABH series (that’s Feeding a Broken Heart and you can read more about that here), we are throwing it back to a recipe that tastes like my childhood. Which is funny, because I don’t necessarily remember my mom ever making Chicken Tetrazzini, but I do remember the word tetrazzini being thrown around in the context of creamy noodle dishes, and I do remember loving it....
comment icon 138 more comments Let me read your mind again. You’re not a caramel person. First of all, that’s weird and you should reconsider. Secondly, this: So now that that’s out of the way, let’s talk about my absence from the internet the last few days, gooooing on weeks. The internet is weird, because it’s like after the initial phase of feeling like you’re going to shrivel up and die socially, you kind of want to stay gone from the internet....
Ooey Gooey Chocolate Cherry Bars This cherry dessert recipe has been a reader favorite since July 2012. Here it is again for the newcomers. Have you been buying your weight in summer fruit every time you go to the grocery store or pass a farmers market? Okay, well I have. Especially cherries. I love cherries. They are just so perfect. Their sweetness, their hearty flesh, the chewiness. The only thing not perfect about them are their little pits....
Easy Cheese Ball Appetizer Calling all cheese lovers, this holiday-inspired cheese ball wreath is for you! Other than my daughter, I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love cheese. I eat her share and then some. If I was at a Christmas party, New Year’s Eve party, or any kind of get-together I would babysit this cheese ball baby all night long. My Christmas cheese ball wreath is easy enough to make and you can prepare it in advance, which is actually preferred so that it chills and the cheese sets up nicely....
If I could drink cinnamon raisin toast I probably would. And did. In the form of this smoothie. I didn’t have any cinnamon raisin bread on hand, and didn’t have any Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal, which I adored growing up and if I had any on hand, I would have gladly tossed that in the mix, too. So I needed to get creative to handle my cinnamon raisin bread cravings and necessity was the mother of invention....
As opposed to just eating it straight from the jar at 12:19 a.m. Midnight snacks take on new meaning when cookie butter is involved. Cookie butter is something that I could easily just eat from the jar with a spoon until it’s gone. And I do. If you don’t have access to Trader Joe’s Speculoos Cookie Butter, look for Biscoff spread in your grocery store or big-box retailer, or just order some....
comment icon 134 more comments You’re looking at a beautiful, colorful, confetti-like bowl full of: Couscous Sweet potatoes Black beans – but any kind of beans are great! Spinach Feta Red Onion Pistachios – because I love them! but any nuts / seeds, or no nuts / seeds also work Lime basil vinaigrette Check Out Our Video For How To Make Couscous Salad: Click here to see the step-by-step web story instructions for this recipe!...
comment icon 305 more comments It’s for surely gotta be sweet potato curry, for surely for sure. There just cannot be anything else. Prefer To Watch Instead Of Read? I’m not just talking about just any old curry -> I’m talking about the kind of curry that hits that perfect spot between silky-creaminess and fire-breathing flavor all in one sweeping, saucy bite. For example, just off the top of my head: Creamy Thai Sweet Potato Curry that can be made in about 20 minutes and that just makes your heart sing for joy when you remember that you have at least three servings of it left in the fridge and you are about to win big at Leftovers Lunch....
This week I went to a Filipino grocery store and bought 2 giant bags of lentils. Yep, you’re right. Definitely not Filipino, and totally still a good purchase. comment icon 360 more comments One bag is brown/green and it’s called masoor. Just try saying that out loud once. You’ll feel fancy. The other one is cute, little, and red. It’s called dal and it’s delicious. I’m just warning you right now....
comment icon 458 more comments Polar vortex? End of Sugar Free January? Formal dating holiday coming up on the 14th? The time is now. Date Night Rigatoni is here, and it is here for all of it. Pasta Forever! Why is rigatoni so good, actually? Why does pasta taste better when it’s in the shape of oversized chewy tubes with just the right amount of density and flop to them?...
Looking for more Thai food recipes? Try my popular Fresh Spring Rolls, Panang Curry, and Easy Pad Thai. Drunken Noodles, also known as Pad Kee Mao (ผัดขี้เมา), is a stir fry noodle dish that is very popular in Thailand and found in most Thai restaurants. It’s my personal favorite and I’m adding this recipe to my list of “better than take-out” Thai food recipes, like this pad gra prow....
