Friends, it is my favorite time of year: Stretchy Pants Season! AKA, the holiday feast season known to many as “December”. I am so excited to share these Peppermint Bark Brownies with you because they are out of control awesome. I mean it. You simply cannot resist a pan of holiday bliss when it looks…
Classic Butternut Squash Soup With Walnuts, Gorgonzola, And Cornbread Croutons
First of all, how in the world is this year almost over? Second of all, how excited are you for Thanksgiving!? I am so delighted for this pending Holiday of Mandatory 24-Hour Feasting that I am participating in not one but two Thanksgiving blogger fests this week! Today I am delighted to join forces with Feast + West and Cake ‘n’ Knife for…
Easy Thai Green Curry
Thai food is my everything. Unfortunately, T.H.A.I in Shirlington in Arlington, Virginia kind of ruined me. It is, hands down, my favorite Thai food ever (until we actually eat Thai food in Thailand–and I’m still not convinced that would change my mind). Warren and I dream of its panang curry (and, yes, my mouth literally started drooling…
Apple Fritter Monkey Bread
I’m just going to give you a sec to take this whole glorious hot mess in. Because: Apple Fritter Monkey Bread. People, I repeat: APPLE FRITTER MONKEY BREAD!!! Meaning: each little biscuit chunk is filled with apple turnover filling, which makes them so perfectly autumnal, you will dance in the streets. It is pretty much everything good in…
Pumpkin Streusel Bread With Maple Glaze
Pumpkin bread was one of the first things I learned how to make well. I used my sister’s recipe, which called for one bowl and a lot of chocolate chips. That pumpkin bread won me friends in all the various stages of my life and is still one of my favorite things to make each…
Blackened Shrimp Tacos With Avocado Crema & Mango Salsa
You guys. These tacos. Oh. Em. GEE. Perfectly blackened shrimp layered with sweet mango salsa and zesty avocado crema, these babies are, like, my everything. You already know that I have a major thing for tacos (I’m still drooling over the Slow Cooker Beef tacos) but you might not know about my shrimp addiction. Because it is a real thing….
Slow Cooker Sweet & Spicy Shredded Beef Tacos
I dream in tacos–perfectly sweet and spicy Shredded Beef Tacos, to be exact. My taco love is deep and abiding. For me, tacos mean family. Friends. Long summer nights laughing on a picnic blanket. So when a taco craving hits, it hits hard. Our go-to taco recipe is our favorite Slow Cooker Carnitas. It is everything good in…
Thai Chicken Satay Noodle Salad With Creamy Coconut Peanut Dressing
This has been the longest, coldest winter that I can remember and the only thing I can do to survive is dream of summer days replete with fresh garden veggies and lazy beach naps. But since it is March in Michigan, this gorgeous, vibrant Thai Chicken Satay Noodle Salad will have to do. Plus, it totally has me…