Dinner, then Dessert

Chicken Shawarma Pita Wraps with Dill Yogurt Sauce

Chicken Shawarma Pita Wraps with Dill Yogurt Sauce are baked on a sheet pan with sweet red onions and wrapped in a pita for the ultimate lunch without the long lines at your favorite lunch restaurant.  Chicken Shawarma Pita Wraps with Dill Yogurt Sauce may sound like they take a long time to make, but with just a few spices and a high heat oven they roast in just 20 minutes with delicious sweet…

Slow Cooker Teriyaki Chicken

Slow Cooker Teriyaki Chicken made with a handful of ingredients has amazing flavors of ginger, garlic that will make your kitchen smell amazing. Slow Cooker Teriyaki Chicken is an easy weeknight meal you’ll love, but the best part is the leftovers are amazing for lunches! Teriyaki chicken is one of our favorite dishes to order when we go out to eat, so having a quick version to make at home saves…

I’m speaking at the Indulge Conference today, so there’s no new recipe today.  Instead, I have exciting news on a project I’ve been working on for a long time. My e-book, Sprinting the Blogging Marathon, is nearing completion. This book details step-by-step how to build a blog from the ground up to generate success as quickly as possible. I’ve hinted that I’ve been working on this book…

Sheet Pan Peanut Chicken and Vegetables

Sheet Pan Peanut Chicken and Vegetables is an easy, but authentic weeknight dinner with almost no cleanup! Serve with rice or noodles. Sheet Pan Peanut Chicken and Vegetables made with peanut butter, garlic, coconut milk, lime and honey for a peanut sauce that rivals your favorite version from your neighborhood thai restaurant. Aside from the Sheet Pan Korean Chicken and Vegetables we make a lot…

Slow Cooker Chicken and Rice Soup

Slow Cooker Chicken and Rice Soup with brown rice and chicken breasts, this soup is comforting and warm with no extra added fat and with the use of lemon extract it can be made from pantry ingredients any time of year. Slow Cooker Chicken and Rice Soup can be made in just minutes and in addition to the amazing soup you’ll get to enjoy for dinner you’ll come home to a kitchen that smells like your…

Christmas White Chocolate Trash Snack Mix

Christmas White Chocolate Trash Snack Mix with pretzels, cereal, peanuts and chocolate coated candies all tossed together with a generous coating of white chocolate. Christmas White Chocolate Trash Snack Mix has been a favorite holiday gift of mine for many years (since the first time I bought a small container of it for $$ from a local department store and was hooked on it!). White Chocolate…

Slow Cooker Reuben Sandwiches

Slow Cooker Reuben Sandwiches are perfect for leftover corned beef after your St. Patrick’s Day dinner with a quick sauerkraut, Swiss cheese and thousand island dressing. Slow Cooker Reuben Sandwiches are in fact perfect for leftovers, but let’s be honest, you are going to want to make a second (and third) corned beef just for this sandwich. I have a secret  not so secret addiction to slow cooker…

Mint Chocolate Chip Brookies

Mint Chocolate Chip Brookies are a delicious combination of mint chocolate chip cookies and rich dark chocolate brownies that tastes like your favorite thin mint cookies. Mint Chocolate Chip Brookies take the best of both worlds, a chewy, rich chocolate brownie and top it with a deliciously crispy cookie to make a flavor combination that tastes straight out of the girl scout’s factory. This isn’t…

Asian Sweet Chili Chicken

Asian Sweet Chili Chicken is so crispy, sticky, sweet, slightly spicy and completely addicting you won’t even miss your favorite Asian takeout. Asian Sweet Chili Chicken combines two of my favorite things about Asian cooking, tempura batter and sweet chili sauce. We love this Sweet Chili Sauce so much we keep 4 bottles of it on hand to make sure we don’t run out (our local store doesn’t carry it…

Ultimate Slow Cooker Pot Roast

Ultimate Slow Cooker Pot Roast that leaves you with tender meat, vegetables and a built in gravy to enjoy them all with in just 15 minutes of prep! Perfect weeknight dinner! Ultimate Slow Cooker Pot Roast is a perfect weeknight meal you can make with little effort the morning of and you can even prep the night before. This pot roast recipe is a pared down version of a recipe I used to use and…

Belgian Rainbow Waffles will make your St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast a hit with homemade Belgian waffles turned into beautiful rainbows with a pot o’ gold. Belgian Rainbow Waffles may be a St. Patrick’s Day celebration for you all, but for us these waffles have been a birthday tradition for our oldest who is completely rainbow obsessed. And our youngest was thrilled to practice naming colors and…

Slow Cooker Corned Beef Dinner

Slow Cooker Corned Beef Dinner all made in one pot with cabbage, potatoes and carrots for the perfect easy St. Patrick’s Day dinner you can just set and forget. Slow Cooker Corned Beef Dinner will make your dinner a breeze since all the vegetables cook right along with your corned beef. The method used in this Slow Cooker Corned Beef Dinner is the same as my Crispy Slow Cooker Corned Beef except…

McDonald’s Shamrock Chocolate Chip Frappe (Copycat)

McDonald’s Shamrock Chocolate Chip Frappe has a mocha caramel base with mint and chocolate chips blended in for a mint mocha frozen treat you’ll love topped with chocolate sauce and whipped cream. McDonald’s Shamrock Chocolate Chip Frappe is like your favorite mocha blended drink with a shot of mint flavor and chocolate chips. The addition of the espresso powder means that the drink has some…

All The Shamrock Shakes

All The Shamrock Shakes from McDonald’s made in all three minty ways they’ve released this year! Classic, Chocolate Shamrock Shake and Shamrock Chocolate Chip Frappe. All The Shamrock Shakes are the rage here this month. The classic McDonald’s Shamrock Shakes are of course back for the St. Patrick’s Day holiday season, but the addition of two NEW McDonald’s Shamrock Shakes has sort of taken all…

Rainbow Poke Cake With Whipped Cream

Rainbow Poke Cake With Whipped Cream made with no cake mix. Condensed milk makes this poke cake super moist and fluffy stabilized whipped cream won’t melt! Rainbow Poke Cake With Whipped Cream is just about the happiest sheet cake you’ll ever make in your life. And with a deliciously fluffy whipped cream topping and super moist cake (I’m looking at you delicious sweetened condensed milk) you’re…

Slow Cooker Philly Cheese Steak Sandwiches

Slow Cooker Philly Cheese Steak Sandwiches that are so tender and flavorful you’ll feel like you’re in Philly. Perfect for a crowd! Slow Cooker Philly Cheese Steak Sandwiches are the answer to all your Philly Cheese Steak dreams. We’ve made this recipe three times in the last two weeks and I think I’ve enjoyed so many I’ve already matched my 2016 beef consumption in just that time. The beef is…

Strawberry Shortcake Smoothie made with Burt’s Bees™ Vanilla Protein Shake powder makes the most amazing cake-y smoothie you’ll want to help shake up eating. Strawberry Shortcake Smoothie recipes aren’t the strawberry smoothies you’ll find at most smoothie shops, but the flavors are so good you’ll never go back to the basic strawberry smoothie. We all look to the New Year and to better eating but…