Ricotta Toast starts with fresh ricotta mixed with a touch of lemon zest. It’s spread over your favorite toasted bread and then piled high with toppings, either savory or sweet. Check out our favorite variations and enjoy this toast for breakfast or as a light, pick-me-up afternoon snack. A Quick & Easy Snack! Light, slightly sweet ricotta cheese is the creamy complement to all kinds of sweet or savory toppings for ricotta toast!...
Not to mention that the beautiful green color from the scallions makes it feel a little extra special for a weeknight or for entertaining. Making Scallions Special Again Around here, scallions are de rigueur. We always have a few bunches in the refrigerator. Dare I say, sometimes we can forget their awe-inspiring power to uplift a dish. From the white parts to the green parts—julienning to mincing to dicing to chopping—the way that you prep a scallion can radically change the results you get, and open up the potential of this humble ingredient in truly stellar ways....
Serve this along side some Garlic Parmesan Crescent Rolls and a fresh Caesar Salad for the perfect meal! I love all things shrimp. In fact this amazing Shrimp Alfredo is one of our top favorite meals, so when summer hits and we want something a little lighter, this Sheet Pan Shrimp Boil is one of our go to recipes. It is delicious and flavorful. Has something for everyone and is super easy to make in the oven....
Posted Mar 23, 2017, Updated Jul 08, 2024 This skillet peanut butter cookie is a slightly under baked, gooey dessert that is easy to make in 20 minutes! The gooey peanut butter oatmeal cookie is studded with peanut butter chips and chocolate chips and baked until it’s just set. This is my go-to dessert when I want to make a quick and easy treat for our family. We all enjoy it with some homemade vanilla ice cream or a dollop of homemade whipped cream....
There is nothing as great as coming home to a meal ready to eat! This amazing roast cooks up in the slow cooker all day! The result is the most tender roast with a delicious and flavorful gravy! We’ve eaten this with mashed potatoes and steamed veggies but it is also amazing sliced thinly and eaten as a beef dip! Either way, you’ll love how this simple dish can taste so amazing!...
Posted Feb 02, 2024, Updated Oct 06, 2024 We are well-known for our chocolate chip cookies, and for good reason, they are the best. Well, I took that recipe and modified it to make these small batch chocolate chip cookies. These small batch cookies are just as delicious as a larger batch but use a fraction of the ingredients. They are buttery, perfectly sweet, with crisp edges and chewy centers....
A Spring/Summer Recipe for Sugar Snap Pea Salad Sugar snap peas are one of the most rewarding vegetables of the late spring/summer harvest. Of course you can add them into stir-fries, but my personal favorite way to eat them is by making them into a salad. When you eat these peas raw, you can taste their natural sweetness in all its glory, and with a few additional ingredients, they really shine....
They have a cakelike texture and a bright, tangy lemon flavor! These cookies make the perfect sweet treat, dessert, or lunchbox snack. If you like Lofthouse cookies, you’ll love these soft frosted lemon cookies. Ingredients in Lemon Cookies THE BASICS: Almost all cookies need flour, sugar, egg, baking soda, powder, and salt. But what makes these cookies extra soft and fluffy is the addition of Greek yogurt, for the rise and tart flavor....
Buttery potatoes are mashed until smooth with sour cream, butter, and seasonings. They’re so rich and velvety smooth with so much flavor. Keep this recipe close; everyone will ask for them again and again. Ingredients for Sour Cream Mashed Potatoes Potatoes – Use Yukon Gold or starchy potatoes like Russets or Idahoans. Peel them for a fluffier texture or keep the peels on for a rustic look. Red potatoes are less starchy but will work....
Are you looking for some great food or drink ideas for St. Patrick’s Day? Whether you need something savory or sweet, here are a bunch of festive and mouthwatering appetizers, meals, desserts and drinks perfect for a day full of green Irish fun! From green beer to Irish Potato candy, the following are some of our favorite dishes for St. Paddy’s day! 4 Ingredient Shamrock Shake Fudge This takes just 5 minutes to whip together and is delicious!...
It is perfect for shortcakes, cheesecake, strawberry cake, and more. Make a big batch to enjoy all week long or pop leftovers in the freezer to enjoy any time! Homemade Strawberry Sauce With strawberry season upon us, this easy strawberry sauce is one of the best ways we’re enjoying them! Strawberries really are so much better through the Spring and Summer, so we try to pick or buy as much as we can when the time is right....
What is Papaya Salad? Papaya Salad is a dish originating in Southeast Asia, consisting of a spicy, sweet, tart dressing, shredded unripe papaya, and other ingredients that can include mango, cucumber, tomato, garlic, peanuts, and dried shrimp. It’s eaten throughout the region, not just in Thailand, but also in Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. This salad is one of my favorite things to eat in the summertime (or any season, actually. Let’s be real)....
Posted Feb 16, 2020, Updated May 12, 2024 I can’t think of a more classic breakfast baked good than a blueberry muffin. And these are the best homemade blueberry muffins ever! They are tender and moist and are better than bakery muffins. This homemade blueberry muffin recipe results in buttery blueberry muffins with a perfect texture and crumb. They are loaded with fresh blueberries and topped with a cinnamon sugar crumb topping....
That little overexposed photo in the sidebar there is actually a picture of some amazing dumplings, or jiaozi, that we got from a street stall in Shanghai. I’m of the opinion that the Shanghainese are the Botticelli’s—the Michelangelo’s, Velasquez’s, and Van Gogh’s—of dumpling making. No one does it quite like they do. Luckily, I have a very loud, dumpling-making Shanghainese side of the family. We’ve been making this dumpling recipe for a long time....
Our debut cookbook contains 100 recipes, including 20 family and fan favorites from the blog, and 80 BRAND NEW cookbook recipes! Last week, we had a journalist over at the house for dinner. We made a big meal of recipes from the book—tomato egg stir fry, hand-torn cabbage, and homestyle tofu—plus a big comforting pot of pork bone and watercress soup from the blog. As we all sat there chatting about Chinese food and cooking, bouncing ideas and jockeying to make our points across the dinner table like we always do, we couldn’t help but get distracted by how deeply comforting all of it was....
Posted Jan 03, 2022, Updated Oct 30, 2024 Chili is one of our favorite cold weather meals. We love beef chili, chicken chili, crock pot chili, turkey chili, etc. So I decided to create the best vegetarian chili for my fellow veggie lovers! This vegetarian chili recipe is the epitome of healthy comfort food. It’s absolutely loaded with vegetables and perfectly seasoned with a homemade spice mixture. It’s easy to make in 30 minutes which means it’s a healthy, quick and easy weeknight meal....
What is Corned Beef? Corned beef is a beef brisket that has been salt-cured and has its own special blend of spices (mustard seed, allspice, coriander, juniper berries, cloves, black peppercorns, and cardamom pods). The name “corned” comes from the size of the salt kernals, not from actual corn in this recipe. Brining corned beef turns brisket, which is a tough piece of meat, into a tender and delicious meal through the curing process....
Posted Aug 22, 2020, Updated Mar 25, 2024 My first job at age 14 was working at a local pizza place. I got a workers permit from my junior high school, put on my Doc Martens and I was ready to start earning money. Working at Angelo’s taught me how to make amazing pizza. As a result, we almost never order pizza, and we always make our own homemade pizza from scratch (never without this homemade pizza sauce)....
I blame TJ Maxx. There isn’t a store on earth that can ensnare me quite so easily as a TJ Maxx (or its brethren, Marshalls and Homegoods). Where else can you buy a designer sweater, a jar of your favorite marinara sauce, and bottle of fancy dog shampoo––all in the same store? I swear I’m not being paid to say these things. I just have an unhealthy obsession with off-price retail, apparently....
The Perfect Mix of Textures One of the reasons we love this fried rice is the mix of textures. Tender, juicy seared chicken, caramelized bits of XO sauce, silky egg, and ever so slightly crunchy onion and bean sprouts. There are strong flavors all around, and yet it works beautifully! The onion note may seem minor. But my mom and I noticed that often, you put onion into fried rice and it just disappears into the background—too cooked to be very distinguishable from the rice....
