This recipe is my Grandma’s. She always used to say that when she was little, food was rather austere and sparse, and if you had a chocolate chip cookie, you’d be lucky to have a couple of actual chocolate chips in your cookie.
I really, really love and appreciate recipes made simple with various shortcuts. Today’s life is so hectic that sometimes spending a few hours to cook a dessert that well be eaten in minutes is just a luxury I cannot often afford.
These chocolate chip cookies are simplicity at its best. Bakery quality they are a breeze to make from scratch at home with just a handful of of basic, simple ingredients that everyone has in their fridge and pantry. This recipe is foolproof and cookies come out perfect every single time.
This cozy Chinese soup with shrimp is my new obsession. I love Asian inspired soups with all the fragrant, potent flavors and tastes that you can make in a breezy time in a comfort of your own home. So save yourself a trip to Chinese restaurant and make it yourself. Because a lot of the times simple is just better.
Save yourself a trip to the take out Chinese restaurant and make this extra flavorful and delicious garlic sauce in the comfort of your own home. It is slightly sweet and packs a powerful flavor punch. The reason I love Chinese food is because there is always so many complementing flavors going on in a single dish. Everyone is guaranteed to find the taste they like.
Chimichurri is a traditional uncooked sauce that is originated in Argentina and Uruguay. It is oil based and made with fresh vegetables and herbs, and the fresher the better in this case, and no cooking involved at all. The sauce authentically is just chopped herbs and vegetables loose on oil. So there is no blending in food processor allowed. It has to be this chunky delicious concoction dripping of your churrasco (flank) steak, fish or chicken.
This chicken salad with grapes is a delightful healthier twist on your traditional classic chicken salad. The dressing is a combination of both mayonnaise and greek yogurt making for a tangy, silky creamy compliment to this dish.
I love this simple but nutritious chicken vegetable soup. So easy to whip up on a busy week nite. This quick-cooking meal is loaded with all kinds of healthy vegetables and protein rich chicken.
This taco salad is everything you will ever want in a light, healthy but satisfying summer inspired meal. Winner all the way. It is so awesome it tastes just like a salad you would get in a nice restaurant. It is just a delight to make something different than just a traditional mixed greens salad with a dressing.
I love a delicious sandwich for lunch and this chicken salad sandwich is definitely one of my favorites.
I just love the heart warming effect of a hot bowl of hearty soup. I make soups all the time during cold weather months. But this one my daughter deemed her favorite. And it takes a lot to make a six year old love soup.
This amazing chicken pasta salad is inspired by all my favorite greek flavors. It is a beautiful, colorful salad full of crispy bell peppers, ripe cherry tomatoes, crunchy cucumbers, zesty red onions, marinated olives, lean grilled chicken and savory feta cheese. All on a bed of freshly cooked pasta.
This is a recipe for a traditional chicken noodle soup. I am always making this soup when I or anyone in my family feels under the weather. It is a known cold and flu remedy. There is just something so comforting about warm hearty serving of chicken soup, just like a hug in a bowl. With this soothing, cozy soup you are guaranteed to feel better in no time.
This chicken macaroni salad makes for a wonderful side dish to bring to any family gathering, summer barbecue and picnic. Very easy and quick to make, this dish is tasty and filling. It is also incredibly refreshing and has a delicate light flavor that no one could resist.
I love making this dish when I am looking for some comfort in carbs. This lasagna is everything you want it to be. Cheesy, creamy, satisfyingly filling.
This recipe is a tasty spin on your classic Italian lasagna. We are using chicken meat instead if ground beef and Alfredo sauce instead of tomato sauce. The combination of chicken and Alfredo sauce is unbeatable, so why not put it in a lasagna.
This recipe is my Mom’s. She is not a big fan of baking, so I have many recipes from her that are reduced to bare minimums in term of effort and ingredients and yet are delicious.
Some time ago I often wondered, why do people even bother with growing sour cherries, they are just so… sour. If you want cherry flavour, get yourself bing cherries. If you want sour, um… a lemon? Boy, was I wrong.
There are so many tasty and amazing lasagna recipes out there. But what makes this recipe stand out is how easy it is to make, and it’s exceptional flavor and texture combinations.
This cheese sauce recipe is easy and quick to make, versatile, very kids friendly and simply delicious. If you are a huge cheese lover like me, mastering this simple sauce is a must. Everyone loves this creamy, silky smooth, cheesy sauce goodness. It is ideal for serving with vegetables and baked potatoes, great for nachos or as a chip dip. Try it in macaroni and cheese and cheese steak sandwiches.
Omelettes are breakfast favorites in my family and might even rival waffles for the first price. But the best part they are healthy! Yes, eggs are an amazing
Source: of high-quality protein and rich in vitamins and minerals. The egg is a powerhouse of disease-fighting nutrients like lutein. Eggs are also rich
Source:s of selenium, vitamin D, B6, B12 and minerals such as zinc, iron and copper.
When I think if simple, soft little wedding or anniversary cakes, or cakes for celebrating anything lovely, sweet and adorable, like your kid’s confirmation or your grandparents’ wedding anniversary, I think chantilly cake.
This recipe comes from Phillipines and is always a welcome diversion from traditional American desserts I bake. It’s made of maniocs, a root vegetable grown in the south.
When people hear cassata cake, I’m pretty sure, those you are familiar with it all have their own recipe in mind. As far as my experience goes, there are dozens of versions of cassata cake that vary locally. Some of them may be very different from the one I’m going to share with you right now.
If you are as much a fan of carrot cake as I am, you’re going to love these delicious little cupcakes. Cupcakes are perfect for certain kinds of occasions. Especially if you’re dealing with a bunch of kids. Cupcake form pretty much eliminated the amount of food chaos the kids create when they get together in groups.
Few things give me more joy than looking at and eating a nice creamy cake, with a look of rustic, homemade dessert. If you share this sentiment, this cannoli cake will be just right for you.
This delicious cajun blackened shrimp is delicious and extra flavorful thanks to the homemade spice made out of bold, fragrant spices. The result is mouthwatering shrimp with beautifully caramelized, deep brown, crispy crust on the outside and succulent, juicy, sea flavored shrimp on the inside. A perfect combination.
This simple but extraordinary tasting cajun shrimp pasta is definitely worthy of a company. The sauce is rich, creamy and savory thanks to the heavy cream and just a tough of freshly grated parmesan cheese. Shrimp is seasoned with cajun spice and sautéed in butter until forming beautiful brown crust. The sauce is flavorful with just a right amount of spicy kick to it.
This amazing dish is a fun mashup of lasagna and stuffed cabbage. Layers of cabbage leaves and made from scratch meat sauce with melty mozzarella cheese and topped with marinara sauce. This lasagna is as tasty as it sounds. If you love cabbage like I do it should become your must try dish.
An addition of sweet butterscotch chips takes these peanut butter cookies to the next level of deliciousness. A sprinkle of sea salt on top of them balances out the sweetness creating a perfect taste harmony. The cookies are to die for.
It’s really amazing what buttermilk does to desserts, cakes in particular. It contains a lot of milk acid, hence the taste, but when you bake a cake, the acid reacts with baking powder, emitting carbon oxide, which is the gas we all exhale. The bubbles of this gas make the batter much fluffier and it rises extremely well.
I really like desserts that taste like familiar kind of candy but take on a wholly different shape. This butterfinger cake is one of them. To me, butterfingers is the taste of middle school, I would always get them at my school canteen, and I love them ever since.
Bundt cakes are classy, everyone knows that. The bundt shape alone makes a dessert so elegant and you just want to have a slice.
If you are a huge lover of chocolate brownies like me you are gonna get obsessed with this delicious brownie cookie recipe. The cookies are insanely chocolaty, fudgy in the m >
This broiled scallops recipe is incredibly easy. Plump, fresh scallops are tossed with butter and fresh parmesan cheese and broiled to perfection. Just a few minutes under a broiler and you have mouthwatering scallops with a perfect caramelized, golden crust on the outside that are juicy and tender on the inside. It is a perfect suggestion for any seafood enthusiast. It is very simple, versatile and absolutely delicious. Definitely worthy of a company.
Who said you cannot have pasta for breakfast? Surprise your loved ones on a weekend morning with this hearty and glorious breakfast lasagna bursting with bacon, ham and egg flavors. All the traditional breakfast staples are layered with lasagna noodles, cheese sauce and more cheese to create this simply irresistible and fantastic dish. The best part you can make it a night before and just bake the morning of. Very convenient.
Don’t let the name fool you. This is actually a cake, and boy, it’s a fine one.
🍗 This recipe for baked bone-in, skin-on chicken breasts will exceed all your expectations. The meat is moist, flavorful and juicy and the recipe is super easy to make. It is sure to become your go-to recipe for split chicken breasts from now on. It turns out fabulous every time.
In this recipe we are going to transform a package off ground beef into something magical called bolognese sauce. This authentic Italian sauce is hearty and robust with exuberant and rich flavors of meat. You are gonna have to be patient because it does take a while to develop the depth and complexity of the multidimensional taste. About two hours. But if you wait long enough you will be rewarded with the most delicious, smooth, melt in your mouth texture sauce that is to die for.
Blueberry season is so fleeting and brief and even though today they are sold year-round, nothing can beat the fresh summer blueberries. And if you have some wild-growing berries, they are particularly aromatic and tangent.
Of all the dump cakes out there, I personally love blueberry dump cake the most. I do love all dump cakes – because of how simple and kid friendly they are. I can make them with my little one and she will actually take active part.
There are not so many vegan dessert recipes out there that don’t require a lot of of fancy ingredients or don’t involve a complicated baking progress, so whenever I come across one, I cherish it and try to share it as widely as possible.
This recipe for blackened shrimp is a week night wonder. Super easy to make it is very flavorful and also versatile. Shrimp is dredged in a mixture of bold spices and herbs together with melted butter and sizzled in a hot pan until caramelized. The result is mouthwatering shrimp with a deep brown to black crust around the outs >
Black and White Cookies or half moon are a classic New York cookie recipe. They are soft, pillow-like, with the perfect, tender crumb, almost cake-like texture. Topped with sweet, glossy, vanilla and chocolate icing they are phenomenal. And look so pretty and appetizing. I love the contrast of colors.
Before time, when people use to communicate more person to person, when important conversations were carried out over a table set with coffee or tea and whatever you had to go with it, and not on social media, having a coffee cake at home was good manners.
Biscotti is Italian for “twice-baked” and are delicious crunchy cookies with a very little moisture in them that are perfect for dunking into the tea, coffee or milk. This recipe is for the Italian classic- almond biscotti with just a touch of lemon flavor from the added lemon zest.
Yep, this is my go-to recipe for a birthday cake. I’ve experimented with a lot of birthday cake recipes over the years and have found that this one is liked universally. So I usually never miss when cooking it and it’s a truly rare occasion when someone at the party doesn’t like it.
This delicious mashup of traditional Mexican flavors served traditional Italian way makes for a truly irresistible dish. Taco lasagna! My favorite Mexican food is tacos, I order them everywhere I go, and my favorite Italian dish is lasagna so why not marry those two together.
Some days you just crave something very healthy and nutritious but at the same time very tasty. And I have the recipe for you here. This carrot salad is the best!
This roasted beet salad with arugula and balsamic vinaigrette is truly an irresistible dish.
If you love cornbread, you’re going to absolutely adore this Mexican style corn cake. It’s creamy, buttery, it has a lovely crumbly textur...
