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Enter for your chance to win a Movie Night Bundle with Popcorn, Candy, & Three of Your Favorite Movies! The deadline to enter is April 15th, 2020 at 11:59:59p.m Eastern Time. Most of us are stuck at home right now. Which makes it an excellent time to grab a blankie, cuddle up with your family, and watch movies! A BIG thanks to all of our healthcare workers, emergency personnel, food and grocery workers, truckers, police offers and other essential personnel who are currently keeping our world turning....

I am often left with just a handful of mushrooms which won’t suffice for any other recipe. So I would use them up this way. My family lately discovered this to be delicious and now this is on the weekly menu. Mushrooms are a power house of nutrition, so if you are a fitness freak you are most likely to love this vegetarian meaty goodness. Mushrooms are versatile and go well in so many dishes like stir fry, curries, fried rice and this mushroom omelette is no exception....

The unique flavour & the taste comes from the fresh ground pepper, fennel seeds and curry leaves. This mushroom pepper fry is great to enjoy during the monsoon & winter. Pepper mushroom, Egg pepper fry, Pepper chicken & pepper mutton are some of the popular pepper dishes found on the South Indian restaurant menus. Mushrooms and capsicum make a great pair in stir fry dishes, curries and even in fried rice....

Nothing beats a warm bowl of clam chowder to warm you up on a cold, rainy evening. New England clam chowder is a creamy soup loaded with briny clams, silky potatoes, and smoky bacon. The broth is ultra-thick and flavored with heavy cream, to boot! It’s undoubtedly the ultimate comfort food. If you think clam chowder requires expert levels of cooking, think again! This recipe is insanely easy and comes together in no time!...

This soup is ultra-loaded with chunks of tender beef, colorful vegetables, and a rich tomato-beef broth. It’s a hearty and cozy comfort food that’ll warm your body, heart, and soul. Not only is it full of flavor, but it nourishes the body, too. This soup is definitely super! Vegetable Beef Soup Is life feeling a little too dark and gloomy lately? This vegetable beef soup is the solution. Bursting with mouthwatering flavors and textures, there’s no problem this dish can’t fix....

I’m a proud connoisseur of pumpkin breads, so my expectations for this loaf were exceptionally high. It needed to be moist but not mushy (a hard balance with many Paleo baked goods), healthy but not bland, and every bite needed to sing with spice. It also needed to stand out among the orange array of other pumpkin bread recipes and pumpkin muffin recipes I’ve previously shared, of which there are, admittedly, many....

Love passion fruit? Make sure to also check out my Passion Fruit Ice Cream, Passion Fruit Cocktail and Passion Fruit Mimosa. This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of ACME Markets. All opinions are 100% mine. A quick and easy salmon recipe! Summer is almost gone, which means you will see me walking around the produce section, nervously looking for fresh passion fruit. You see, while this tropical fruit is widely available in my home country (Brazil), it only shows up for about a week here in the United States....

A smooth and creamy pumpkin filling is nestled in a crisp and flaky crust and kissed with whipped cream, for good measure. It couldn’t get any better than this. I love how the filling is flavored with cream cheese, sugar, and spices. The combination creates such a unique flavor that never fails to tantalize my taste buds. I loved it as a kid, and I love it even more now as an adult....

It has been a crazy past few months, meaning I’ve been relying on more store-bought snacks than usual. While they certainly have their place, I’ve missed my healthy homemade snacks (that’s you, No Bake Energy Balls). One of the shiny wrapper foods I’m prone to relying on the most is protein bars. However, today that changes because I’m taking back my breakfasts and snacks with these no bake peanut butter protein bars (and perhaps a batch of my favorite No Bake Granola Bars too)....

Potato Fry In South Indian cuisine, we usually serve stir fry dishes with rice, Rasam or Sambar, so is this aloo fry. You can also serve it in a meal of dal fry or dal tadka, jeera rice or even with plain rice and ghee. My kids love this with just anything, so I sometimes also pack it in their school box with some rotis and veggie salad. For a quick interesting dinner, I spread some green chutney on roti and wrap them up with a filling of this stir fried potatoes, lemon juice or chaat masala, kachumber and coriander leaves....

Roasted bell peppers can be a fantastic accompaniment to many dishes. The best part, they are ridiculously easy to make and only take about 20 minutes of work. I mostly roast red bell peppers, though the color doesn’t matter. Yellow, orange and green peppers are prepared the same way. Red bell peppers are sweet, so are the yellow and orange. Green peppers are not, and I use them when I don’t want sweetness in a dish....

That’s right. Without even thawing the broccoli first, you can make it crispy and caramelized. I bet if you didn’t know the broccoli was previously frozen, you’d never even suspect. As much as I adore roasted vegetables and as ardently as I believe they are the tastiest way to add more veggies to your diet—I cook a pan almost every single night (usually this Roasted Broccoli and Carrots), and we eat the leftovers for lunches and dinners too—I certainly have my nights when it’s getting late, we’re hungry, and I simply do not feel like taking the time to chop vegetables for roasting....

After trying Smothered Pork Chops which were an instant hit in our family I kept an eye on other ‘smothered something’ recipes. Sure enough, while looking through Cook’s Country magazines I found a recipe for… smothered cabbage. The recipe looked really simple and used only 5 ingredients, not including salt and pepper. Well, this cabbage turned out to be one of my favorite side dishes. I would place it somewhere in the top 3 range....

The farther south you go, the less potato salads are dominated by mayo, sugar, vinegar and celery and more by mustard and pickles. South is big on barbecue, which is rich and comforting. You need the acidity and zest from pickles and mustard to cut through the richness of barbecue meat. There is no right or wrong when it comes to making a great tasting southern potato salad. I’ve been to quite a few BBQ joints in Texas, Oklahoma, and Georgi....

I came up with this easy spaghetti squash recipe when I was testing out Crockpot Spaghetti Squash. We had an unusually high number of cooked spaghetti squash halves hanging out in our refrigerator awaiting their purpose. Over the years, stuffed spaghetti squash recipes have become one of my favorite ways to serve this delightful little squash, especially these Taco Spaghetti Squash Boats and these Spaghetti Squash Boats with Chicken. Squash boats are incredibly filling, endlessly customizable, and taste ultra comforting, all while making it easy to sneak in your servings of veggies....

(This post is sponsored by California Almonds.) Love is in the air! After all, Valentine’s Day is almost a week away. And nothing says “I love you” like a homemade edible gift! Especially if it involves chocolate. After all, Valentine’s Day without chocolate is like a beach day without sunshine! And you know what else is quickly approaching? Almond Day! February 16th is the day to celebrate all things almonds....

From birthday parties to Sunday lunches, Sprite cake is a delicious way to end any meal. It brings just the right amount of sweetness to the table. Lucky for you, it only takes a few ingredients to make this cake. Enjoy the ease of baking this scrumptious pastry from scratch. Sprite does the job of several traditional cake ingredients, simplifying the recipe. It’s so simple, you can commit it to memory!...

Complete with a crispy skin, fluffy filling, and loaded with your favorite toppings, this Steakhouse Baked Potato is everything you love about the baked potatoes restaurants make - at home! Ready in just about 1 hour. Steakhouse Baked Potatoes If there’s one thing my family loves just as much as the steak at a steakhouse, it’s the baked potatoes. Steakhouse baked potatoes have the perfect texture and flavor for pairing with beef, and really, every time I’ve gone to one, I’ve aspired to perfect the baked potatoes I make at home!...

Strawberry Milkshake Strawberry milkshake is a delicious drink made with strawberries, milk, ice cream and flavoring ingredients like vanilla extract or strawberry syrup. Optionally topped with whipped cream, strawberry syrup and the options are endless, it can be easily dressed to a dessert drink! Milkshakes are a blend of ice cream, milk, and flavorings or sweeteners (unless you’re in New England, then it’s called a frappe). While the original versions from the late 1800s had eggs and whiskey, by the early 1900s they became drinks made with flavored syrups; the modern version of milkshakes, with ice cream, milk, and flavorings didn’t appear until the 1920s....

These zesty stuffed zucchini boats are packed with Italian-inspired ingredients like Italian turkey sausage, tomatoes, and a shower of basil Parmesan breadcrumbs. Cheesy, herby, and healthy, they’re a dream (zucchini) boat.<—sorry, couldn’t help myself! Whether you just planted a plethora of zucchini plants in your own garden, anticipate you’ll be gifted a surplus of zucchini from friends or family, or you simply need a healthy meal idea for dinner tonight, these easy stuffed zucchini boats have you covered....