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This week I’m making a homemade version of my favorite treat — cheese danish! My how-to video shows you how to prepare cheese danish using puff pastry. You can customize the filling to include your favorite preserves. I used apricot and black cherry. Click to get the recipe ingredients and watch my recipe video.
Spinach artichoke dip is one of my favorite appetizers. My dad is well-known for bringing spinach artichoke dip to parties as a snack. While Costco has a great deal for spinach artichoke dip, I decided to try and make my own oven-baked spinach artichoke dip from scratch.
One of my favorite parts of New Year’s parties is the variety of appetizers. I like being able to have small tastes of different dishes to see what I like best. Check out my list of 7 appetizers to make for New Year’s.
Soups are one of my favorite recipes to make in the fall. For this week’s blog, I’ve compiled 5 of my recipes which you should try during this chilly, autumn season. They include french onion soup, pumpkin soup, and other recipes of my family’s favorites. Comment with your favorites or let me know what recipes you’d like me to try.
I’ve always used International Delight coffee creamer in my morning cup of coffee. But after some reflection, I realized that coffee creamer was composed of artificial flavors and oils. This made me wonder: Couldn’t I make my own homemade coffee creamer with milk? Thus, this week’s recipe video was created — homemade vanilla coffee creamer.
This week’s recipe video uses in-season and homegrown produce to make a light and refreshing summer vegetable salad. This salad uses fresh ears of Jersey corn, tomatoes, homegrown cucumbers, and bell peppers to create a refreshing main course or summery side dish.
A few years ago, I was gifted a cookbook by Max and Eli Sussman called, “This is a Cookbook: Recipes for Real Life.” One of their recipes is a side dish of roasted cauliflower with tahini sauce. So for this week’s blog I follow their recipe and share my thoughts on the flavor and instructions of the recipe.
This week, I’ve tried another trending recipe on the internet — cucumber boats with cream cheese and everything bagel seasoning. This recipe is easy to pull together as a healthy, single-serving snack. Check out my cooking notes and the recipe video to make your own!
This week I've made the viral bell pepper sandwich from TikTok and Instagram. This amazing sandwich is packed with veggies, layered with textures, and is easy to assemble. Click to get the recipe ingredients and watch my how-to video for this bell pepper sandwich!
As I mentioned in my previous post — Nadiya’s Time to Eat on Netflix inspired me to make Nadiya’s one-pan peanut chicken bake recipe. Her peanut curry sauce caught my attention, so I knew I wanted to cook this one-pan meal, layered with fresh veggies, chicken, and gnocchi topped with crunchy peanuts and bright lime.
I read an article that raved about Trader Joe's Camembert cheese, so for this week's recipe video I decided to make baked Camembert with a black cherry spread. This is a simple appetizer that you can pop in the oven and enjoy with crackers or spread over crostini. You can add any favorite fruit spread on top to add an extra layer of flavor to your baked Camembert.
This week I decided to make Rotini with Baked Feta — my version of the viral baked Feta pasta recipe. My pasta uses both cherry and fresh tomatoes, with extra spices and Rotini pasta to hang onto the creamy Feta sauce.
Inspired by Netflix’s show Nadiya’s Time to Eat, I decided that for this week’s recipe video, I would make Nadiya’s Raspberry Cheesecake Croissants. You don’t have to be a baker to make this recipe. Store-bought croissants and a 6-ingredient cheesecake filling make this an easy breakfast recipe to impress your family.
Boboli® pizza crust is one of my favorite ingredients to have on hand. This week’s blog is an ingredient review of Boboli® pizza crust, where I shared the history of Boboli® products, a review of the flavor, price, and branding, and my own recipe using Boboli® pizza crust.
I wanted to challenge myself to a new recipe to use up the rest of my leftover buttermilk. After some research, I found Sally’s Baking Addiction’s recipe for cast iron honey butter biscuits. I’d never made no yeast biscuits before, so for this week’s blog, I share my experience of following her recipe, and tips to make your own homemade honey butter biscuits.
Growing up, I remember homemade peanut butter kiss cookies — also named “peanut butter blossoms.” These cookies were a treat all-year-round, though they were especially popular on holiday cookie platters.
So for this week’s blog, I’m following A Farmgirl’s Dabbles recipe for peanut butter kiss cookies.
Rachel Hollis is an amazing CEO, Founder, NYT Best-Selling Author, who I found this year. I love her brand and authenticity, so I was excited to see that she is also a foodie. So for this week, I decided to make Rachel Hollis's Apple Cider Sangria recipe, just in time for Thanksgiving.
My first time having coconut shrimp with piña colada sauce was as an appetizer at Boniello’s. I loved the bright, sweet flavors so much, that I decided to make it at home. This week, I follow Red Lobster’s piña colada sauce recipe and make my own to pair with homemade coconut shrimp!
Easy, egg-free pumpkin cheesecake filling piped into crispy phyllo shells. Seasonal ingredients like pumpkin spice make these poppable pumpkin cheesecake bites a new twist on a seasonal dessert.
Using my freshly picked apples from apple picking at Masker Orchard in Warwick, New York this week’s recipe video is a homemade apple turnover recipe. Using puff pastry, these flaky apple turnovers are filled with juicy, cinnamon-spiced apples, and drizzled with a natural apple glaze. Read more about my apple picking adventures and get the recipe for these puff pastry apple turnovers with glaze.
