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Or without chocolate. I tried to make one the other day, but we all know how that turned out……. Chocolate Butter Pecan Cookies. Cookie dough spiced up with cinnamon and rolled in cinnamon sugar? Holy Yum! Like let your stress melt away. What to cook for dinner, um Thanksgiving, Christmas shopping, oh yeah and that work deadline will be all but forgotten after your first whiff. See my mom is a complete chocoholic so growing up all of our desserts were covered, doused, or stuffed with chocolate....

I’m spending my last couple of nights with my family. We’ve done some island hopping, going from Turks and Caicos, to George Town and Staniel Cay in the Exumas, and we’ve now moved on to our final destination of Nassau. Excited to explore today and tomorrow before heading out for NYC on Friday. If you haven’t yet RSVP for the Anthropologie workshop, please do so here. It’s almost sold out!...

I love a good potato side dish, some of my favorites include baked potato wedges, grilled potato foil packets and this super easy hash brown casserole. Hashbrown Casserole Ingredients To make hashbrown casserole make sure you have thawed hash browns, butter, cream of chicken soup, sour cream, onion, salt, black pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, cheddar cheese and parsley. This casserole is one of my favorite side dish recipes and a favorite breakfast recipe....

August 24, 2023 One Pan Herb Butter Chicken and Zucchini Rice Pilaf. August 29, 2022 Roasted Garlic Caprese Grilled Cheese. August 22, 2022 Simple Coconut Chicken Meatball Curry with Rice Noodles. August 29, 2019 Sheet Pan Hawaiian Pineapple Shrimp Tacos with Creamy Jalapeño Special Sauce. August 21, 2023 Parmesan Chicken Florentine and Broccoli Pasta. August 23, 2023 Tomato Burrata Pepperoni Pizza Dip. August 22, 2023 Cinnamon Crunch Quick Bread.

It’s hard to believe, but this is my first ever pumpkin bread recipe. In my six years of creating recipes I’ve yet to share a pumpkin bread recipe. I know, it’s shocking, but it’s true. That all changes today, and it’s all thanks to Joy Bauer and her delicious (healthy) pumpkin ginger bread. If you read my last nine favorite things post, then you know that a couple of weeks ago I headed to New York to film something extra special with Joy....

My next recipe for Diwali/Deepavali is Badusha, also known as Balushahi. This is one of the most popular sweet dishes from North India which finds its place all over India. When it comes to sweets, I can’t just stop myself. They are a true test to my determination and I give in. And the thing is, I don’t even feel guilty about it. For me, anything in moderation seems okay and there is no point restricting oneself to things that bring happiness....

You guys, you guys! I made us a homemade chocolate Frosty, and honestly, it’s really delicious. Just like Wendy’s texture wise, but with better chocolate flavor. I’ve said this many time over now, but as a kid I didn’t enjoy fast food very much. I think I ate it a few times as a young, young child. But I moved on from fast food pretty early on in life… I was a weird kid, I loved carrots and ranch as a snack, and always ate my broccoli....

Well, this is an exciting Tuesday. We’re making homemade cinnamon toast crunch and it’s truly one of my best recipes yet. You guys? This cereal is so good. It brings back all the best childhood memories. And honestly, it’s not only a million times better than the boxed stuff, but it’s also simple to make. If you can roll out pie dough, you can bake up your own homemade cinnamon toast crunch cereal....

Soaking dry fruits and nuts for making rich Christmas fruit cake is a tradition for many. For a rich and delicious fruit cake and plum cake, it is a must to pre-soak fruits. Like many traditions and family recipes, this process of preparing fruit for Christmas cake is different in each household. It also depends on the cake recipe and how are fruits & spices incorporated into it. Over the years I have learnt to make eggless Christmas fruit cake and eggless plum cake, both very rich and delicious that we have come to love as family....

This has certainly been the year of soup, and I’ve loved every last bowl. A few years ago the only soups on my radar were classic chicken noodle, ramen, and broccoli cheddar. And I never swayed far from these classics. I still love these soups, but there’s always room for trying something new. And this has been that year, so many new soup recipes on HBH. I’ve shared fresh takes on the classic chicken noodle....

I turn to my Instant Pot when I need dinner on the table as fast as possible. Some of our favorite pressure cooker recipes include Instant Pot carnitas, Instant Pot chili and this amazing teriyaki chicken. Looking for more great ideas? Be sure to check out my collection of 16 Instant Pot Recipes! In my opinion, you can never go wrong with teriyaki chicken. It’s a classic dish for good reason, it’s super delicious and has the perfect balance for flavors....

You can never have too many holiday drink recipes! When I’m entertaining, I offer fun and festive cocktails like champagne Jello shots, a blood orange margarita, cranberry Moscow mule, Christmas sangria and this colorful Jack Frost drink. Everyone expects classic winter flavors at holiday party cocktails like apple, cranberry and pomegranate. This Jack Frost cocktail is a tropical delight that’s an easy and unexpected addition to any Christmas party....

Sharing my “from scratch” jaljeera recipe in this post. You don’t need store bought jaljeera powder to make it. What is Jaljeera In Hindi, Jal = Water, Jeera = Cumin seeds. As the name suggests, jaljeera is indian drink with a prominent taste of cumin. It is different from jeera pani or cumin water that is a popular weightloss drink in India. In north indiaYou will find a lot of street vendors serving chilled jal jeera stored in earthern pots sitting atop their decorated carts in India....

And then snowing some more. Really, we got a lot of snow. And to think two days ago I thought maybe spring might come a little earlier up here in the mountains. Yeah, right. Those days of awesome sunshine and 30 degrees temps were short. Too short. My die hard snowboarder brothers are pretty happy. Apparently, it was a major pow, pow day (Pow, pow is a lot of snow....

Today I am sharing Karachi Biscuits recipe, a popular cookie/biscuit famous in Hyderabad Karachi Bakery. Until a few years ago these cookies were not so easy to find anywhere else except in Hyderabad and in Karachi Bakery. But thanks to the franchise model, these are now easily available in packages all over the country and probably around the world too. I first tasted these almost a decade ago and it is safe to say that, almost everyone likes these fruit biscuits....

The time when we get to talk tacos and margaritas for the next week straight. OKok, fine we talk tacos and margaritas a lot around here already, but with Cinco de Mayo on Friday I wanted to share a few of my favorite Mexican…ish recipes. It’s definitely no secret that I love Mexican food. I’ve posted one too many Mexican inspired recipes in the last few weeks, I actually started talking about Cinco de Mayo in March....

There are some days when you feel like having something crunchy, crispy to go with your coffee/tea. I get this craving during weekends especially but along with it, comes the guilt of having high calorie snacks. I made these low calorie paneer balls quite by chance, during one such weekend. At least once a week, I make something using paneer/cottage cheese, given what a rich source of protein paneer is for vegetarians....

Today’s recipe is very unique for it’s a rare recipe, as chosen by Lina. When the rare recipe challenge was announced on her blog, I was very excited to take part. Except for a few names, everything else was very new to me. Given my limitations with meat, I checked with her on what are the veggie options and she very sweetly gave me Lymonnyk. Sure, the name sounded fun and a recipe that I would have liked to try....

The next and last in the Gokulashtami series after Uppu Seedai and Maida Thattai is this really delicious and simple Maladu recipe. Maa Ladoo or Maladu is usually made with roasted gram and sugar. But instead of using sugar, I made Maladu with Jaggery and it turned out so good. Now why did I replace sugar with jaggery? You guessed it right – I have a story. Growing up, Thokkudu Laddu used to be my most favorite sweet from Andhra....

About the Recipe Barfi or Burfi is a dense, fudge like milk based mithai (sweet treat) from the indian subcontinent. Burfi is popularly prepared during festivals like Diwali, Holi etc. Milk burfi, besan burfi and coconut burfi are few of the most popular ones in India. Mango burfi is a seasonal, tropical twist on the traditional milk burfi. This recipe is inspired by the mango mawa ladoos that I shared a few years back but this version is made without coconut....