I love to serve easy and elegant side dishes with my meals, such as candied sweet potatoes, corn pudding and this show stopping carrot souffle. This is the absolute best way to enjoy carrots! Have you ever tried a carrot souffle? If not, you’re totally missing out! This dish takes carrots to the next level, and the results are nothing short of spectacular. How to cook carrots This recipe starts with cooked carrots, which you can either boil or steam....

Well, I’m back for round two this week with these crazy fun and delicious cheesecake eggs! I can’t really say they’re completely breakfast food, but then hey, why not?!?! Cheesecake for breakfast sounds pretty good to me, so I’m going with it! This recipe comes from Aimee Twigger’s new book Love, Aimee x. When I received Aimee’s book a few week ago, I opened it up and was kind of blown away by these eggs....

Mexican food is favorite in my house, every week I find myself making steak tacos, chicken enchiladas or chicken fajitas. This fajita marinade takes just 5 minutes to put together and always gets rave reviews. I have been making this chicken fajita marinade for many years – it’s my absolute favorite way to add flavor to plain old chicken breasts! This is the best method of enjoying restaurant style fajitas in the comfort of your own home....

In this post, I am also sharing 2 ways in which you can make chicken manchurian. First version is ground chicken meatballs and another method is to add deep fried chicken pieces to the manchurian sauce- sauce recipe is same for both versions. Indo chinese dishes are love! Indo chinese cuisine is a fusion cuisine creatively put together by chinese settlers who lived in eastern parts of India for centuries....

And why Monday pretty much always gets a big thumbs down??? It’s because on the weekends, no one sends emails…meaning I actually have a chance to catch up on all of the emails I have yet to respond to from the week. It’s a great thing, I try to clear my inbox (which almost never fully happens, seems like there is almost always 1 or 2 emails that I just can’t figure out how to respond to yet) and then feel all organized again… But then Monday happens, and all those emails I responded to now have answers, and well, I feel all un-organized again....

Whenever I travel I’m always looking for healthy snacks to bring along with me. I absolutely hate having to buy weird airport food, so every time I fly I bring along a big bag of mixed raw nuts and plenty of fruit. If I have time the day before leaving, I’ll also make either some granola or granola bars (my favorite homemade granola bars and granola are in the HBH cookbook) to pack up as well....

Tuesdays can often be a bit boring, but we can make them a little more exciting (and delicious) with this delicious swirled pumpkin bread. Promise you, this is not your average pumpkin bread. I know there are about a million and one pumpkin bread recipes out there. So before I began testing this recipe, I definitely asked myself, do we really need yet another pumpkin bread recipe? Questionable, but the bottom line…the sound of this bread just excited me too much....

Not too far or anything, because I am a baby steps kind of girl, but I mean raspberry rose? Whoa! It’s a totally new flavor for me and I am in awe over it. It’s very elegant and I kind of feel like a princess while eating these, so that is kind of fun too. Asher loves that they are pink and made with raspberries, her favorite. This is one of those recipes where I came up with the name first and then everything else followed....

I love to recreate my restaurant favorites at home, including appetizer recipes such as garlic parmesan wings, crab rangoon, lettuce wraps and these succulent coconut shrimp. Coconut shrimp are one of my all time favorite indulgences – if I see them on a restaurant menu, I immediately order some! It’s actually really easy to make crispy shrimp at home. I have to say, I think the flavor of homemade is even better than the restaurant version....

I mean, I have roasted a chicken and all, but never a big roast like this. Mom always does the Turkey at Thanksgiving and really, that is the only roast my family does. Until now, because I decided I needed to make a roast. It’s just seemed so Christmassy and perfect. Every Christmas Eve, my family usually grills a beef tenderloin. It’s tradition, we do it ever year. This year though, I am taking over and making prime rib....

I’m not sure there’s a recipe that so many of my family members love more than these tots. At least not for most of my brothers. They pretty much lost it when they had heard what I made. Tater tots are everyone’s favorite, and while I’m never big on frozen, pre-packaged food, I can’t argue that a crispy tater is pretty darn delicious. The story on these tots is pretty simple....

Taquito Wednesday anyone? I know it’s not a thing, but maybe we should make it one. Because I’m overly excited to share this easy recipe with you guys. These taquitos are so good, they’re the kind of food you could eat once a week…at least. I’ve told the story many times before, so I will not repeat it. Most of you know I grew up eating tacos once or twice a week....

As a kid, tacos were a weeknight staple in our house. I’ve touched on this before, but my dad cooked tacos for dinner at least once or twice a week for multiple years straight. It probably wasn’t until I started to take over the cooking around the age of fourteen that we started to switch things up. So yes, the typical weeknight ground beef taco was a staple, and my dad had them down to a T....

We have ourselves a breakfast recipe! And a really dang good one too. I’m not really sure why, but I almost never share savory breakfast recipes like this. It’s just plain silly of me because breakfast dishes are delicious. I do the same thing with appetizers. I think it’s because more times than not, I’m usually cooking for a lot of people. They’re expecting dinner, not really a breakfast-for-dinner situation (though that is really delicious)....

I’m always looking for new options to spice up our everyday lunch options. Some of my favorites include turkey roll ups, seafood salad, avocado egg salad and this super flavorful curry chicken salad. Chicken salad is always a hit in my house, and this curry chicken salad turns an ordinary lunch into something special. It’s got the perfect blend of exotic spices, tender chicken and crunchy vegetables! How do you make curry chicken salad?...

This is honestly my very favorite day of the year and I am so exited. My family is all here, we’ve been getting a bunch of snow and there is more predicted to start falling tonight… it really could not be better. I am keeping things SUPER short today seeing as I have tons of cooking and family time ahead. I am sharing one of my all time favorite recipes, CHEX MIX!...

Happy Friday! Oh, I’m so excited for today, the weekend, and to be able to share this yummy peach cobbler with you all. This might be one of my favorite recipes of the summer!! Like most of us, these days I’m doing all the summer things I can. Time outside, soaking up the summer sun, and hitting the markets for the fresh summer produce that’s so plentiful right now. My grocery store and local Whole Foods have had the best sweet summer berries, peaches, and gorgeous stone fruits the last few weeks....

My next Mango recipe is here! As you all know by now, I absolutely love mangoes and I love working with them in desserts. This year I started off by making No-Bake Mango Cheesecake with the first set of mangoes we managed to get. I didn’t actually plan for these Eggless Mango Almond Muffins at all, until the husband got me started on that idea. I have made Eggless Mango Cake last year and it is the most gorgeous, moist and beautiful cake....

Happy New Year one and all 🙂 Hope this new year brings a lot of happiness, peace and success for all of us 🙂 🙂 So how did you usher in the new year?! We relaxed at home on the new year’s eve after having an awesome home cooked meal of comforting tomato soup, homemade spicy vegetable rice noodles, crispy fried baby corn and a slice of homemade plum cake!...

It’s here!! Spooky Cocktail Saturday is back and we have some of my most favorite cocktails I’ve ever shared. I am more excited than any other year. My cocktail ideas are flowing. I’m kicking off our fall/holiday cocktails with the spookiest, yummiest autumn punch! As with all Cocktail Saturday recipes, I keep these posts short and sweet, so let’s jump into it! I haven’t shared many punch recipes, but I did a couple last holiday season and loved them so much....