A great way to kick off summertime is to know what recipes to cook! Try out my favorite Grilled Steak Fajitas, these delicious Grilled Vegetable Kabobs and this amazing Juicy Grilled Garlic Turkey Burger. Summertime Grilling is HERE! I am SO excited that this time of year has rolled around once again! These are the best summertime grilling recipes and they are some of my all-time favorites. There is something for just about anyone!...
Zucchini is in abundance right now and no better way than to enjoy fresh quick bread this season! Try this chocolate zucchini bread, blueberry zucchini bread or pistachio zucchini bread for more great zucchini recipes. Zucchini Bread Recipe I promise this is the only zucchini bread recipe that you will ever need! It has been perfected and is a tried and true recipe that everyone raves about. This zucchini recipe is a MUST make and so delicious!...
Parmesan Garlic Potato Foil Packets How is your summer going so far? Can you believe we are already in July? Our summer is jam-packed with so many activities that it has just flown by for us. We had both of my girls birthdays in June, one scout camp, preschool graduation, lacrosse camp, and the list seems to go on. We have had countless BBQ’s and that is one of our favorite parts of summer....
Pasta with Roasted Broccoli, Garlic and Oil The aroma of the roasted garlic always conjures up the question, is dinner ready? This is one of my favorite pasta dishes, great for those nights you forget to defrost your something, or if you need to whip up a quick inexpensive yet healthy meal. Reserving some of your pasta water before you drain it, to add to the pasta after it’s tossed with the broccoli is my way of keeping the pasta from getting too dry, without having to add more olive oil....
Bars like these are the perfect solution for busy weeknights when the kids want a sweet treat. For more snacks with big flavor but little effort, give Nanaimo, snickerdoodle, and oatmeal chocolate chip bars a try! Super Easy Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars Recipe Peanut butter and jelly is one of those flavor combinations that I find myself coming back to time and time again. There is something about it that is both super nostalgic and just downright delicious....
Make this a scrumptious meal with a Caesar Salad, or Garlic Butter Green Beans and a Perfect Baked Potato or Homemade Sweet Potato Fries. Your friends and family are going to love this! Steak in the Air Fryer I’m not exaggerating when I say this is a perfect steak. It gives you that crispy crust seared outside and a tender juicy inside, EVERYTIME! Yes, grilling steak is still amazing but it’s getting cold, no one wants to stand outside to grill a steak....
The best part of pancakes is the toppings! If you really want decadence try topping these pumpkin spice pancakes with cinnamon honey butter, homemade maple syrup, and fresh whipped cream. Be prepared because your pancakes will taste like a dessert, and there’s nothing wrong with that! Pumpkin Spice Pancakes These are the best pancakes to wake up to on a cozy fall morning. The pumpkin puree makes them amazingly moist, the brown sugar adds sweetness, and the pumpkin spices flavor them just right....
I love making delicious quick bread at home, and do you know who loves them even more? My kids! There are so many different delicious combos out there, but you must start with Strawberry Banana Bread, this delicious Lemon Almond Poppyseed Quick Bread, and my very favorite… this Buttery Beer Bread! What is Pistachio Zucchini Bread? This is such an incredible recipe! I had never heard of a zucchini bread like this, so I made it ....
I’m always looking for recipes that make breakfast fun and unique! These Poffertjes definitely fit the bill! If you’re looking for other options to complete your brunch spread, try twisted bacon, baked scrambled eggs, air fryer sausage, and creamy poppy seed fruit salad. What are Poffertjes? Poffertjes make such a fun breakfast, snack or dessert! These light and airy mini pancakes are common street food in Amsterdam. They’re super easy to make too!...
Potato and Green Bean Salad I have so many potato salad recipes, but this is by far one of my favorites! Some other favorite potato salads are this rainbow potato salad, and this low-carb potato salad (seriously so good!). It’s also great for vegan and Whole30 diets, and best served room temperature rather than chilled like most potato salads that contain mayo which makes this ideal to bring to a summer party or picnic....
Although pumpkin cupcakes are delicious without frosting, I thought pumpkin spiced cream cheese frosting would be the perfect topping. The frosting definitely takes this recipe up a notch and makes these cupcakes perfect for a party! (For more festive pumpkin desserts, check out my Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins, Chocolate Spooky Spider Halloween Cupcakes, and Pumpkin Pie.) Vanilla cake mix – I use Duncan Hines or Pillsbury. Pumpkin pie spice – For that cozy fall flavor!...
Pumpkin Hazelnut White Chocolate Biscotti My favorite way to eat biscotti cookies are with warm milk. A few other favorites are Pistachio Cranberry Biscotti, Chocolate Pistachio Biscotti, and Chocolate Chocolate Chip Biscotti. If you have electricity and a warm oven to bake these in today, take a moment to be thankful and think about the hundreds of thousands who do not. It’s Sunday, day seven of no electricity for many of us on the South Shore of Long Island, Staten Island, Brooklyn and New Jersey....
To conclude my story, my husband came home early to help solve my problem. He whipped out a bunch of power cords from the closet and started testing out my laptop, and when you least expect it, voila… my laptop started. Just fyi, a Hewlett Packard power cord revived a Dell laptop. Who knew? And more importantly, who cares, I was thrilled… my issues got resolved much faster… the team was happy, thus I was happy… all because my husband, my savior came to my rescue....
Quick Cabbage Slaw This is perfect along side my Slow Cooker Pernil Recipe (this is on regular rotation in my house) or my Picadillo recipe. Everyone loves this, including my youngest daughter. When she was a toddler I left out the red onion. It’s also low-carb, vegetarian, gluten-free and whole30 compliant.
If you’re not a bread lover, this Shahi Paneer also pairs beautifully with rice, should you wish to opt for a simple curry and rice bowl for dinner. Make it as a stand-alone hero dish, or as a spectacular addition to any North Indian-style thali. What’s in Shahi Paneer? There’s a world of different recipes for Shahi Paneer and everyone has their own favourite way of making it. My version is made with aromatic spices like cardamom, saffron and cloves, nuts, dried mango and butter-soft paneer....
I have a love/hate relationship with gulab jamun (or gulab jambu as we call them at home). I mean this in the sense that I love to eat them but hate that I can never just have one. These sweet, saffron, rose and cardamom-soaked milk doughnuts are one of the most well-known Indian desserts, and the chances are, they’re on your local Indian restaurant’s menu. Kala jamuns are the lesser-known big sister of gulab jamun....
Once you start making your sauces and dressings from scratch, you won’t want store-bought! Here are a few more tried and true recipes that you’ll have to try next: Thousand Island dressing, Greek salad dressing, and of course- homemade Caesar dressing! Homemade Russian Dressing Recipe Elevate your sandwiches, burgers, salads, and more with this incredibly easy homemade Russian dressing! It’s bursting with flavor and so easy to make, you’ll wonder why you ever used anything else....
Two obsessions. Cheesecake and Samoa Cookies. That isn’t a very big secret here on the blog though. I am always posting cheesecake… and I just posted a samoa thumbprint recipe the other day. It’s just something about that toasted caramel chocolate goodness that I love! So I knew that a samoa cheesecake needed to happen. I made this mini samoa cheesecakes on the blog a couple of years ago and they were so yummy that I wanted to make a cheesecake bar....
Rating: 4 stars Difficulty of Recipe: 3 stars Review: To save on some time you can always skip the dipping the bottom of the cookie part in the chocolate, and just drizzle the chocolate on top. Either way these will taste amazing!
Hey everyone! Chelsea back from Chelsea’s Messy Apron! I’ve got a childhood favorite recipe to share with you all and I’ve simplified it even more making these meatballs IN the crockpot! First off, if you aren’t familiar with porcupine meatballs, there aren’t actual porcupines in them 🙂 They are basically just meatballs with rice IN the meat mixture and as they cook they get a little spikey and look like little porcupines :)....
