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If you’ve been intimidated by cooking fish in the past, I totally get it! I spent years avoiding buying salmon because I thought it would be too complicated to make, or that worse yet, I’d mess it up and ruin a beautiful piece of fish. All of that changed after I discovered this easy foil-baking method. This easy baked salmon takes less time to prep (five minutes) than I spent sleepily scrolling through Instagram this morning while brushing my teeth (much more than five minutes)....

You know when you want to bring a side to a potluck but you don’t actually want to spend that much time making it? You want it to taste phenomenal, of course. People could gush. That’s nice too. You just don’t want to actually spend more than 15 minutes in the kitchen. I’ve been there! Your secret is safe with me. This black bean corn salad is a recipe for these low-effort, max-reward times....

Easy overnight breakfast casseroles such as this blueberry French toast or my Hash Brown Casserole are my go-to, especially when I’m making breakfast for more than two or three people (or want lots of leftovers). Not only do recipes like this score full points with my guests, but because the prep work all takes place the night before, in the morning I can focus on spending time with my guests (or making Air Fryer Bacon and Sweet Potato Hash Browns)....

Over time, this rich stew evolved from a peasant dish to a staple in haute cuisine and was made famous around the world, thanks to French chef and restaurateur Auguste Escoffier who first mentioned Boeuf Bourguignon in a cookbook in 1903.

Holy creaminess, Batman! Did you sigh at the sight of all that creaminess/cheesiness? ‘Cause I totally did, and I just had this for dinner last night. ??? Can you tell I am a huge rice lover? ❤️ How could I not, I am Brazilian! There are a few things Brazilians claim to be experts of: beaches, bossa nova, caipirinhas and rice. Okay, there’s also churrasco, brigadeiro, feijoada, moqueca, passion fruit mousse, pão de queijo and sooo many others....

The bread bowl my mom let me order the soup in probably helped too (thank you, Panera!). Now that I’m the one doing the cooking, healthy soup recipes appeal to me more than ever before. Soup tastes great leftover for lunches and dinners, and it stores and reheats like a dream. Be sure to indulge in some well-deserved back patting when you pull a container of this broccoli cauliflower soup from the freezer (assuming you have any leftover to freeze that is)....

The fact that this recipe is super-duper easy, satisfyingly creamy, and even low carb certainly heightens its appeal too! As I shared with this recipe for Buffalo Baked Salmon, Buffalo sauce traces its history back to a bar in Buffalo, New York. Buffalo sauce is essentially Frank’s RedHot sauce mixed with melted butter, with a few other spices added. The bar served it, and it became a legend. The butter adds a rich flavor and balances the heat of the sauce....

You can buy navel oranges nearly any time of year, but they’re in peak season between November and January. That’s when they taste best. But if you’re like me, I like to keep these refreshing fruits on hand all year long. They’re perfect for a mid-day snack, can be turned into a tasty orange marmalade, and used in a variety of baked goods. In the summer months, I especially love using them in smoothies and sherbets....

To be 100% honest, I used to loathe cauliflower! I never understood people who said they loved the boring, tasteless veggie, until I had an epiphany! Cauliflower is only tedious if you make it bland. Of course I hated it. My whole life it was served to me boiled to an unexciting mush, plain and smelling like… well, fart! (I could say something a little classier, like “sulfurous”, but I did start this post saying I was going to be honest....

Dips and spreads are the easiest way to feed a crowd at all sorts of gatherings. From guacamole to baba ghanoush, you will find a great variety of dip recipes in our appetizer collection! A delicious party dip for any occasion! It’s that time of the year again! That time when I host friends to eat all sorts of indulgent food and watch the big game. Only I almost never know who’s playing!...

Chicken Kolhapuri Kolhapur, a city from the Southern Maharashtra in India, is well known and famous for a lot of things. While the Mahalakshmi Temple stands on top, the culinary delicacies representing the most flavorful & spiciest foods are equally well-known. The city is also popularly known for the Kusti (wrestling) & handicrafts. Misal Pav, Pandhara Rassa and Tambda Rassa are some of the dishes from this cuisine. Chicken kolhapuri along with Veg Kolhapuri , is mostly seen on the restaurant menus especially in the South Indian and Western Indian states....

To make a homemade khoya or khoa lot of patience and time is needed which I do not have. So I generally prefer to buy from the Indian stores. You can make a simple khoya burfi or make a choco burfi. Sweeteners like raw cane sugar too can be used like I did to make chocolate kaju katli and chocolate sandesh. Since i made the two layer chocolate burfi, i had to use sugar....

Coconut chutney is beyond easy to make! At home we make it at least 3 to 4 times a week since it is the perfect partner for all Indian dishes. My family loves a change each time, so over the years I have perfectioned making so many variations of coconut chutney which I have shared in this post. With spicy and nutty flavors, these will surely impress your entire family including kids!...

Coconut Milk Pulao I share the traditional Andhra style coconut milk pulao recipe in this post along with instructions to make it in a pot, pressure cooker and instant pot. In South India, locally grown aged regular rice is used to make this dish. However feel free to use any kind of rice that you have. Keeping the rice grains separate, grainy yet fully cooked is very important. So use only aged rice as this kind of rice cooks up perfectly to fluffy grains without turning sticky and mushy....

Grandma Dorothy has made several appearances on my blog. One Christmas, I shared these Candy Cane Snowball Cookies, which are based on her Swedish tea cakes. Before she lost her battle with Parkinson’s disease, my grandma painstakingly recorded her most treasured recipes in a home-printed cookbook she called Lovin’ from the Oven. Included in that cookbook is the base recipe that I used for these orange drop cookies. These melt-in-your-mouth, traditional orange cookies are pillowy soft and float away on your tongue....

The sparkle attracts me. After all, what other time of year could I feasibly don a glittery skirt or a light-up snowman sweater and be right on trend? Then, I flash forward to my feelings every year after my family’s four-day, multi-dinner holiday feast extravaganza. The only sparkle I want is the shiny stripe down the side of my sweatpants. Fortunately for us, with cranberry St. Germain cocktails in hand, we’ll be party pretty no matter what we are wearing!...

Words that encapsulate the warm, fuzzy feelings that surround the height of fall and transition into the holidays: footie pajamas; hearth; hot chocolate; mittens; cranberry turkey meatballs. Turkey meatballs often get a bad rap for being dry and flavorless. One of my goals in life has been to prove that’s simply not true. My Moroccan Turkey Meatballs and Crock Pot Turkey Meatballs are evidence of this! Today, these cranberry turkey meatballs only further cement their place is moist, juicy meatball land (a place I would love to visit BTW)....

I made this recipe use chicken breasts instead of the usual chicken thighs. White chicken meat is healthier is one reason. The other reason is that I prefer white chicken meat nine times out of ten. Don’t most of us as this study shows? You can substitute the breasts for the thighs if you desire, but let me tell you, you don’t want to do that. Chicken breast meat in this dish comes out very tender and juicy, and just falls apart, like pulled pork....

FavoritePinShare How To Make Apricot Chicken in the Crockpot The only extra step you have is to quickly brown the chicken. Remember this isn’t to cook it, just to give the skin some texture and flavor. I love meals that are easy but taste amazing! Make this a complete dinner and serve with Broccoli, Rice or Potatoes. Apricot Chicken Recipe A friend made this for all of us last summer. I was a little unsure about it because of the apricot jam in it....

Fans of Crunchy Anzac Biscuits will love this quick and easy recipe! These classic Aussie biscuits will be fresh out of the oven in under 30 minutes. For my readers who aren’t from Australia or New Zealand, you may be wondering what on earth an Anzac biscuit is. The best way to describe it is a sweet oat cookie. An “Anzac” refers to a soldier who was in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, particularly in the years of World War 1....