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If you’re not familiar with a Banh Mi sandwich, it’s a Vietnamese sandwich. It’s usually made with a baguette-style sub roll that’s layered with cripy pork or chicken. Then a spicy mayo is spread on top with pickled veggies, cucumbers, spicy chilies, and fresh herbs. It’s also traditional to add liver pate, but you’ll notice I left that out of these bowls. It’s not something I can easily find. The flavors combined are fresh, with just the right amount of spiciness, and great umami flavors all around....

Homemade sherbet you guys! How fun is this? I wasn’t expecting to love this recipe so much, but I am really excited to share this…it’s super easy! My brother Kai used to eat sherbet as a kid. He’d go with the rainbow flavored gallon size tub. I’d snack on it every so often, but it never really excited me much. I remember it tasting like some sugary, overly sweet ice cream....

Umm, boring. Ok ok, for real though, I feel like Mondays just require fun food, you know? I love salads, but let’s save those for our lunches, and let’s do pizza for dinner…sound good? Plus, this pizza is basically just like a salad with all that arugula on top…right, right. Got to love my reasoning right? To be honest, this pizza is happening today for a couple of reasons. Reason one would be all of the above....

Yeah, the short one. The original recipe name also included, pumpkin, pumpkin seeds and honeycrisp apples, but I realized that was just way too ridiculously long. Like come on, I cannot have a title that is three-lines long (well I could, but I shouldn’t). That is just too crazy, even for me. So autumn harvest granola came into play and it stuck. I like it better anyway. Did I ever tell you that harvest, is one of my very favorite words and autumn is probably my second?...

Whenever I want a no bake cookie, I turn to easy haystack cookies, no bake peanut butter cookies, festive buckeye balls or these delicious avalanche cookies. Have you ever been to Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory? If so, you’ll know exactly what these avalanche cookies are all about. Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory sells avalanche bark which is this ultra creamy peanut butter bark studded with marshmallows, Rice Krispies and chocolate chips....

Chicken pot pie is comfort food at its finest, and this version features the most delicious biscuit topping. For more hearty dishes, be sure to check out my stuffed green peppers, cabbage and sausage skillet and Cincinnati chili recipes! Chicken pot pie is one of those classic dishes that seems to never go out of style. It also happens to be kid friendly, which of course is always a bonus in my book....

It’s spooky season! I know it’s a little dorky, but I’m so excited for the Halloween season this year. I’m having so much fun creating Halloween themed desserts and drinks for the month. I figured these would be the perfect spooky bars to kick off the month of all things spooky. Their so easy to make, delicious, and in my opinion, so cute too! I love the little spider web and black spiders all around....

Cake balls are a welcome addition to any gathering, and they make super cute party favors as well. I often make this recipe, chocolate covered Oreos or chocolate covered pretzels for a quick treat. This basic recipe formula can be changed up into tons of fun flavor combinations. Cake balls are such a fun and festive dessert, and they’re almost too pretty to eat! I love making cake balls because they’re a total crowd pleaser, both kids and adults alike adore them....

Ingredients unsalted Butter Sweet onion Fresh pineapple Pinch of salt and pepper Frozen puff pastry Dijon mustard Worcestershire sauce Cayenne Slices of ham Swiss cheese Eggs (only one beaten egg needed) Poppy seeds Kitchen supplies sheet pan and parchment paper airtight container serving tray knife I know, bold statement, but seriously these cute little turnovers are to die for. Sweet, cheesy, savory, buttery… just all kinds of deliciousness. I think the combo of caramelized pineapple, swiss cheese and puff pastry is just maybe the best thing ever....

Soo, I have been meaning to tell you guys, but um, we got baby chicks. BABY CHICKS. Well, they are getting so much bigger now, but a few weeks ago they were teency, tiny and so cute. Now? Well they squawk a lot and to be honest they are really not the smartest animals. We got the chicks because I really wanted a good source of eggs for cooking. I still plan to use a mix of store-bought eggs for baking since we only have three chicks, but I cannot wait to fry a fresh egg....

When the spring holidays roll around and I’m celebrating with family, I always put out a big meal with Passover recipes like rack of lamb, matzo ball soup, matzo crack and of course this fresh and delicious apple charoset. Passover is one of the biggest Jewish holidays of the year, and you can’t have a Passover dinner without charoset. This blend of apples, cinnamon and honey is an essential part of the holiday, and it also happens to be totally delicious!...

You can’t go wrong with a hearty, cheesy casserole for any meal of the day. Some of my favorites include sausage egg casserole, tater tot breakfast casserole, taco casserole, chicken casserole and this super delicious cheeseburger casserole. If you love hamburgers, you’ll be sure to love this cheeseburger casserole. It has all the great flavors of a loaded bacon cheeseburger, but with the addition of pasta! Cheeseburger Casserole Ingredients To make this recipe, you will need macaroni elbows, bacon, ground beef, onion, tomato sauce, ketchup, mustard, cheddar cheese, salt, black pepper, parsley and toppings such as pickles, tomatoes and lettuce....

This pasta is a real hit with my family. We like the bright lemon flavor with the chicken and pasta. For a larger meal, this pasta goes great with a salad like Cherry Tomato Salad or Chopped Greek Salad. It was almost a year and a half ago when my blogging life changed and I had my first viral recipe. When I created this lemon asparagus pasta I had NO idea how popular it would be....

We eat Mexican food at least once a week in my house. Some of our favorite recipes include chile verde, beef enchiladas, and this super flavorful chicken tinga. My local Mexican restaurant makes the best chicken tinga, and I decided it was time to learn to make this dish at home. My version has all the great flavors of the restaurant version, and is surprisingly easy to make. What is chicken tinga?...

Well, not really. I make tacos at least once a week, but I have not posted tacos since these Caribbean Jerk Salmon Tostadas with Grilled Pineapple Peach Coconut Salsa. That was back in August and those are technically not even tacos. So yeah, it has just been too long. And yeah, I am aware that there is this giant food holiday on Thursday. I am also aware that I should probably be showing you last-minute Thanksgiving food, and maybe I will tomorrow, but we still gotta eat for the next three days, right?...

You can never have enough festive Christmas recipes, especially when it comes to sweets. When I’m entertaining, I offer options such as reindeer chow, candy cane hearts, eggnog cake and these fun Christmas brownies. The holidays are almost here, and I’m celebrating with these fun and festive Christmas tree brownies! People can’t help but smile when they see these colorful treats, and the best part is, these brownies taste as good as they look!...

I make Mexican food for dinner at least once a week, and my family always requests easy cheese enchiladas, hearty chile colorado, succulent Instant Pot carnitas, and this simple, but totally satisfying cilantro lime rice. Cilantro lime rice is a classic dish that’s been made popular by restaurants, and the good news is that it couldn’t be any easier to make. All you need is a handful of ingredients and about 20 minutes to produce perfect rice....

I’m not sure how this could be, but this is only my second coffee cake recipe I’ve ever shared. A few years ago I shared a pumpkin coffee cake, but that’s my entire repertoire of coffee cakes on HBH. You see, growing up coffee cakes were not a thing at our house. You all know the story, if it wasn’t chocolate, it wasn’t something my mom was baking. So we never enjoyed coffee cake as kids....

Happy Friday, happy weekend guys! I am 100% ready for the weekend ahead. ‘Twas a very long week to say the least, but not in a bad way, just a busy way! Thankfully we get to end the week with cake, so all is good. And this cake? It really is something special. It’s one I have been dreaming up for well over a year now. Yes, over a year....

When I’m looking for an easy side dish that I know the whole family will love, I turn to favorites such as slow cooker mac and cheese, sauteed brussels sprouts and these smoky, savory collard greens. Collard Green Ingredients When you make collard greens with bacon make sure you have bacon, onion, garlic, collard greens, chicken broth, hot sauce, apple cider vinegar, salt and black pepper. These greens are a perfect side dish recipe for main courses like baked chicken wings, Cajun turkey, crock pot ham and slow cooker ribs....