While I was making honey butter the other day to go with our cornbread ; I remembered the abundance of vanilla beans in my pantry. (I found a great deal on them last year when I started making extract and I bought a bunch of them at that time.) Whipped honey butter is made even more delicious with the addition of vanilla. Use a vanilla bean if you have it, the flecks of vanilla bean in the honey butter are irresistible....

Creamy White Chocolate Fudge filled with pecans and swirled with caramel might be the ultimate treat for a holiday tray. This is a quick and easy 5 Minute Fudge Recipe that is perfect for any occasion. White Chocolate Fudge Why let milk chocolate and Dark Chocolate Fudge get all the attention around the holidays? The rich flavors in this White Chocolate Fudge are perfectly balanced by a cup of coffee or tea....

Salami, mozzarella, pepperoncini, olives, red onions, and potatoes are tossed with a garlicky vinegar and oil dressing to make this tangy Antipasti Potato Salad. Antipasto is one of Sean’s favorite things to order at an Italian restaurant. So, when I had the idea for this potato salad, I knew that it going to be a guaranteed win with him. Similar to the very popular Garlic Lover’s Potato Salad this Antipasti Potato Salad works well at room temperature....

The BEST chicken tetrazzini recipe begins with chicken, mushrooms, and pasta tossed together with a creamy, garlicky sauce. Layer that deliciousness in a baking dish and sprinkle it with just a handful of cheese before baking just long enough to melt everything together. Served with warm bread and a salad, this meal is a hit every time. Almost 18 years ago now, my sweet friend Lisa brought my family a pan of this Chicken Tetrazzini....

You only need two ingredients and about five minutes to make this easy hot fudge sauce. Creamy, thick, rich, and chocolatey hot fudge is a dream (and often a “must have in the house at all times” requirement) for any ice cream lover! I have a well-known love for ice cream and while I rarely turn down a scoop in a cone, I can’t resist a fancy ice cream sundae whenever I have the chance to make one....

Homemade Almond Joys really do taste better than store-bought. Rich, chocolatey and nutty with plenty of light, flaky coconut, Almond Joy candy bars are easier than you’d expect to make at home. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been making coconut candy bars at Christmas time. I drizzle them with chocolate and chill them in cupcake liners to bring to holiday parties or stuff into goodie bags. The most common thing I hear from folks who try them is that they taste just like Almond Joy candy bars, but better....

Tangy, sweet Honey Lime Jalapeno Vinaigrette delivers a hint of lingering heat that few can resist. It’s perfect on salads or drizzled over street tacos or burrito bowls. Jalapeno Vinaigrette My husband was working out of town a while back and he texted me one night to tell me about the fantastic honey-lime jalapeño vinaigrette from one of the restaurants he visited. His only dinner request that week was that I try to figure out how to make it....

Whether you cook every night or just find joy in the occasional evening spent baking, the right tools make all the difference. I have found that some tools become lifelong companions, and others end up gathering dust in the back of a drawer. These kitchen tools are the everyday essentials that I reach for more than any others. Knives When it comes to kitchen essentials, I’m not sure there is anything that would be considered more essential than knives....

Creamy vanilla ice cream swirled with rich caramel sauce, filled with chunks of crisp shortbread, chewy caramel candy, and dark chocolate. This ice cream is perfect for a warm summer night, a dinner party with friends, or as a grand finale for Thanksgiving night. Inserting rant here –> Why do we only share ice cream recipes in the warm months? Does everyone stop buying ice cream in the winter? Does homemade ice cream no longer trump every single carton on the shelf mid-winter?...

Fresh and creamy strawberry ice cream is sprinkled throughout with Nerds candy to create this super fun Nerds Ice Cream, it’s a completely irresistible kid and adult favorite. When I stumbled on a question regarding Nerds ice cream a while back, I was immediately intrigued. Nerds candy? I don’t think I’d eaten any Nerds since middle school – at least not that I can recall. Well, I’m happy to tell you that I’m once again hooked on these crunchy, sweet and tart candies....

Chewy, sweet, perfectly stretchy, and gooey Peanut Butter Rice Krispies Treats filled with chunks of Reese’s peanut butter cups are a fabulous new way to enjoy everyone’s favorite treat. While cleaning out my baking stash in the freezer last weekend, I found not one or two, but 4 different bags of Reese’s products. I don’t even know how that’s possible, since my kids typically devour that kind of “leftover” ingredient. Apparently, I did a very good job of hiding them in the freezer....

The best part about this salad is that it’s delicious when you first make it, but it’s also fantastic cold. I like to make this salad and eat it for my lunches through the week. My friend Lynne made this salad for Holly and me a few weeks ago while we were hanging out at my house for a #foodbloggersleepover . (always, always a fun time!) Holly and I went a bit nuts over this salad and we’ve both made it multiple times in our own kitchens over the past few weeks....

Walnut Cookies are tender buttery sweet cookies with a center of chewy brown sugar, walnut, and sour cream filling. Walnut Frosties I have no idea where the name Walnut Frosties originated, but my friend Margaret shared a batch of these cookies with us a while back, and with the very first bite, I asked her if she’d pretty please share the recipe with me. She was kind enough to do so and now I’m willing to bet that you’re going to love these Walnut Frosties every bit as much as we do!...

Tender, buttery, lightly sweetened Almond Cake is a treat with a cup of coffee or tea in the afternoon, but it’s also a company-worthy dessert for any occasion. This cake is a wonderfully light dessert that we all love. No frosting or complicated decorating is necessary for this simply perfect cake! Almond Cake Can we have a moment of appreciation for almond desserts? The mild flavor and crunch of an almond pair well with so many other ingredients....

Loaded with layers of buttery cinnamon, and topped with a brown sugar streusel, this Cinnamon Coffee Cake is positively irresistible. You’d never know it takes just ten minutes of actual work. But, that sweet spot between low effort and impressive results? That’s where I want to live. I love this cinnamon coffee cake so much, I actually dialed in this exact recipe for my first cookbook. And, I use this same reliable method with almost all of my coffee cake recipes, including my sour cream blueberry coffee cake ....

Is it a scone? Is it a cookie? Coconut Scone Cookies are the best of both worlds. It’s a coconut cookie that comes together in an easy scone recipe. That makes this a bite-size scone “cookie” that no coconut lover will be able to resist. Coconut Scone Cookies These are scones you can eat for dessert and cookies you can eat for breakfast. A crumbly biscuit-y scone is topped with sweet vanilla glaze and dotted with perfectly toasted flakes of light and ever-so-slightly-crisp coconut....

Crispy breakfast potatoes, roasted to perfect crispiness with fluffy centers and plenty of seasoning, are key players in many of our favorite breakfast recipes. Crispy pork, tender vegetables, and potatoes topped with a perfectly soft egg? Sign me up for this Pulled Pork Breakfast Skillet any day of the week. Warm tortillas, fluffy scrambled eggs, roasted potatoes, crispy bacon, and melting cheese are combined to create these hearty Breakfast Tacos ....

Pork, shrimp, and vegetables are folded into a paper-thin lumpia wrapper and then fried to crisp golden perfection in this traditional recipe for Filipino lumpia. Almost 30 years ago, I tasted lumpia for the first time and I fell in love with them at first bite. Filipino Lumpia Unfortunately, I lost touch with the friend who introduced them to me. Luckily, I remembered lumpia a few years ago and realized that I might be able to make them at home....

Italian Cream Liqueur is perfect for sipping, for stirring into hot coffee or tea, for drizzling over a rich cake, or even for serving with berries. Everyone who tastes this cream liqueur comes back for more and then asks for the recipe. A few years ago, our friend Tony gifted us a bottle of this liqueur for Christmas. It smelled heavenly when I opened it and I could hardly wait to try it in my coffee the next day....

You know those recipes that instruct you to “cut in very cold butter” either with your fingers, a knife, a pastry blender or maybe even the food processor? For YEARS, I simply avoided them. I realize it isn’t complicated (once you have the hang of it) and cutting in butter isn’t rocket science, but I always wound up with a pile of mushy butter and flour. Until I discovered that you can GRATE COLD BUTTER!...