A sprinkling of coconut adds something extra special to this Blueberry Banana Bread. I’ve made this recipe three times now and I’m just now getting around to sharing it with you! Blueberry Banana Bread Why the wait? It kept disappearing before I could get a picture of it. (That tends to happen when I bake at night because we can never resist the warm fragrant bread!) That may have been a little optimistic considering how irresistible we find this blueberry banana bread....

Made with ground beef, rice, and all the traditional flavors of cabbage rolls this fragrant cabbage roll soup is as cozy as it gets. Stuffed Cabbage Soup Cabbage rolls have been a long-time part of my frequently made recipe rotation. There is just something comforting about the flavors in these recipes. Over the years, our recipe has evolved to be a less labor-intense layered cabbage roll casserole . These Unstuffed Cabbage Rolls deliver a quick skillet meal too, when I don’t have time or motivation for much more than that....

Tender pasta and the “holy trinity” of bell peppers, celery, and onion, along with a creamy Cajun dressing, make this Cajun Pasta Salad irresistible. Pair this flavorful pasta salad with just about any meat off the grill for a memorable summer meal. Cajun Pasta Salad While this salad pairs nicely with ​grilled chicken​ , ​burgers​ , or ​hot dogs​ for summer barbecues, it’s also great with ​chicken​ , ​shrimp​ , ​steak​ , or ​salmon​ cooked in the air fryer for casual weeknight meals....

If you love the crispy, super thin, bar-style pizzas that are popular in many restaurants these days, you are going to LOVE this Tortilla Pizza recipe! You’ll make these pizzas in a cast-iron skillet on the stovetop and finish them with barely a minute under the broiler. This quick and easy pizza recipe delivers incredible results every time. Tortilla pizzas have a crispy crust topped with all the gooey mozzarella and toppings you could possibly want....

Sometimes the simplest things end up being the biggest wins. That’s how I feel about this cheesy, crispy, Chicken Bacon Ranch Quesadilla. My boys and I threw them together a few weeks ago for the first time with some of the items we tend to have on hand in the freezer. Suffice it to say that these are way tastier than they have any right to be! Chicken Bacon Ranch Quesadilla I fell in love with the Just Bare brand of frozen chicken bites several years ago when I first found them at Costco....

Chicken Tortilla Soup is a quick and easy weeknight dinner. Filled with beans and slightly spicy peppers, this simple meal is full of great flavors. We like to pile tortilla chips, cheese, and sometimes sliced avocadoes into our bowls most of the time, but I’m happy to say that this soup is always a hit both with or without all of the toppings. This time of year, we can’t get enough of our favorite soup recipes ....

You need these buttery sweet chocolate chip cookie dough bites in your life. Each one is filled with miniature chocolate chips in a bite-size chunk of snackable cookie dough! Edible Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Oh, the awesomeness of cookie dough . It’s forever a favorite snack in our house. Is there anyone who can resist the urge to snack on a bite or two of dough when baking cookies? Edible cookie dough is great for a few different reasons....

Creamy chocolate ice cream with a marshmallow swirl, crunchy almonds, and chocolate chips add up to a homemade heavenly hash ice cream. What’s the difference between Rocky Road and Heavenly Hash? At their heart, both of these chocolate ice creams contain marshmallows and almonds. Heavenly Hash often contains an additional chocolate add-in, either chocolate chips, flakes, or chunks. Rocky Road is usually a chunkier ice cream, typically with whole nuts and mini marshmallows, and Heavenly Hash might have smaller pieces of nuts, a marshmallow swirl, and chocolate pieces mixed throughout....

Sometimes, life doesn’t stick to the script. I’ve been there. Standing in my kitchen, overwhelmed by the stress of a looming event, while it felt like things are falling apart. If that’s you this Thanksgiving, then I’ve got you covered. You can still pull off a terrific holiday meal and keep it as low-stress as possible. I can’t fix the bigger picture. I wish I could. But, I can help with the meal....

Creamy sweet and tart lemon ice cream is swirled with beautiful blueberry sauce in this refreshing lemon blueberry ice cream. Made with fresh or frozen blueberries, you can enjoy this sunshiney taste of summer year ’round. Lemon Blueberry Ice Cream Lemon desserts are the ultimate in the summer: bright, citrusy, and tart, they are the best at capturing that warm weather essence. And blueberries, oh blueberries. Fragrant, sweet, and a little tart themselves, there is nothing that pairs with lemon quite so well as blueberries....

Pasta Salad Recipe Ingredients 1/4 cup red onion, thinly sliced 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 2 cups grape tomatoes, halved 1/2 14-ounce can of black olives, sliced in half 1/2 large green pepper, chopped small sliced 8 ounces pasta: elbow, penne, and fusilli work well 4 ounces Monterrey Jack cheese, diced into 1/2 inch pieces kosher salt to taste freshly ground black pepper to taste Instructions Cook the pasta according to directions, removing from the heat and rinsing immediately with cold water until the pasta is cool....

Luscious and sweet, this Peanut Butter, Banana, and Spinach Smoothie will make eating at least one of your daily servings of leafy greens a pure delight. Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie We all know that eating leafy greens is important. The health benefits of a diet rich in spinach, kale, arugula, lettuce, cabbage, etc. are well documented. But, sometimes, even this girl gets tired of salad. I know, I know! (It’s rare....

You only need a handful of ingredients to make these chewy, chocolate and peanut butter filled Peanut Butter Cookie Cups! Inspired by everyone’s favorite old-fashioned peanut butter cookies , these very simple to make four-ingredient peanut butter cookies are a kid and adult favorite whether you choose to make them with or without the added chocolate. Peanut Butter Cookie Cups Made in a mini muffin tin, the small peanut butter cups are the perfect size to hold a peanut butter cup....

Easy and impressive poblano corn chowder has serious comfort food power. Gather your ingredients and be ready to gather the praises that will be heaped on you when folks dunk a spoon into a big bowl of this flavorful chicken, corn, and potato chowder with a hint of heat from roasted poblano chiles. Potato Corn Chowder Chowder is the king of the soup world, in my opinion. You can chowder-ify just about anything and there’s no time of year when it isn’t welcome at the table....

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. After eating Pork Carnitas for dinner, I knew immediately what I wanted for breakfast. This Pulled Pork Breakfast Skillet was a hit with all of my boys. We are big fans of breakfast skillets – a.k.a. breakfast hash. This Spinach and Potato Breakfast Hash with Spicy Sausage was one of the first hash recipes we tried and it started off a whole new breakfast craze over here....

Pumpkin Mousse is creamy, fluffy, melt-in-your-mouth perfection and it is my family’s favorite pumpkin dessert. Every year, when I make it, another die-hard pumpkin-hater falls prey to its awesomeness. Pumpkin Mousse A co-worker gave me this recipe, more years ago than I feel like counting. I took one bite of the mousse she brought to the office and I was smitten. Creamy, light and full of real pumpkin flavor lightly spiced by nutmeg and cinnamon had me convinced I needed to make this recipe right away....

The ultimate Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies are giant bakery-style cookies with crisp edges and a perfectly chewy center, filled with chocolate chips and sprinkled with flaked sea salt. This is a cookie you absolutely must taste to believe. Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Cookies If you’ve ever been lucky enough to eat a Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Cookie from La Grande Orange Cafe, you might possibly appreciate my enthusiasm over these cookies....

Honey, Sriracha, soy sauce, and sesame oil are all you need to make this irresistible sweet and spicy broccoli. Spicy Roasted Broccoli This Sriracha and honey roasted broccoli was a recipe that I stumbled across many years ago and saved to try sometime in the distant future. The website where I found the recipe isn’t active anymore, but I’m grateful the recipe was once shared there. We’ve been making this spicy roasted broccoli on a regular basis for years now because it is absolute perfection....

Make this rich and creamy Baked Potato Soup on the stove or in the crock-pot! Everything you love about a fully loaded baked potato is tucked into this rich and creamy soup. There are fluffy bites of baked potato in every bite. If you have ever thought that you didn’t like potato soup, this Baked Potato Soup just might change your mind. I love the simplicity of this recipe . Bake the potatoes, let them cool, scoop them out, warm the milk, combine it all and bring to a very low simmer for about 10 minutes....

Crisp, buttery tortillas filled with spicy chicken and melting cheese add up to a buffalo chicken quesadilla that any fan of buffalo chicken is certain to love. Buffalo Chicken Quesadilla Quesadillas are one of those stretch meals or snacks at our house. Don’t we all have those times? When you know you NEED to go to the grocery store but don’t have the time or feel like putting a list together to go....