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    Roast Ham with Spiced Honey Glaze

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    This delicious honey roast ham is great for a crowd. The simple spice rub and honey glaze is all it takes to make a perfect roast ham for the holidays or a family dinner! Classic Oven Roasted Ham I'm here to say I love a big family dinner with a baked ham as the main dish. It's salty ...

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    Filed Under: Christmas, Easter, Main Dish, Pork

    Easy Easter Bunny and Baby Chick Cupcakes

    Easter Bunny Cupcakes

    Make these sweet Easter cupcakes for your spring festivities. I've given instructions on how to make Easter bunny cupcakes as well as Easter chick cupcakes! Spring bunnies and chicks make the cutest cupcakes. There's just no comparison! For this Easter cupcake recipe, you can bake ...

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    Filed Under: Cupcakes, Easter

    One Banana Banana Bread

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    Do you only have one banana ready for your favorite quick bread? Or, do you just want a small batch? I have the best solution: Make two mini loaves of delicious, customizable one banana banana bread with basic baking ingredients. There's always that one lonely banana on the counter that just ...

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    Filed Under: Bread, Breakfast + Brunch, Fruit Tagged With: banana, banana bread, breakfast, quick bread

    The Ultimate Brownie Recipe

    Stack of three delicious classic brownies

    They are fudgy, they are gooey, and these are the BEST chewy brownies! They're made with double the chocolate and have a classic crinkle top. Everything a brownie should be. This is a one-bowl brownie recipe that will help minimize the mess while baking. It's a no-nonsense recipe that results ...

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    Filed Under: Baking + Desserts, Brownies Tagged With: baking, brownies, chocolate, dessert

    Light and Fluffy Vanilla Frosting

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    This is a basic powdered sugar frosting recipe that comes together with just four ingredients. Use the vanilla frosting for cakes, cupcakes, or cookies! This recipe for homemade vanilla frosting is so versatile and readers love it! It's my most popular frosting recipe. Close seconds are my ...

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    Filed Under: Baking + Desserts, Christmas, Easter, Frosting + Icing, Valentines Tagged With: baking, cake, frosting, frosting recipe, sugar, treats

    Warm Salmon and Arugula Pasta Salad

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    This warm salmon pasta salad features creamy goat cheese, peppery arugula, and al dente linguine. The warmth from the salmon perfectly wilts the greens and melts the goat cheese to make a lovely sauce! Salads with warm ingredients to wilt the greens just slightly, has got to be one of the ...

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    Filed Under: Easy Dinners, Pasta, Seafood

    Classic Pesto

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    Making pesto is a life-skill! This one is easy. A classic basil pesto sauce is perfect in pastas, sandwiches, dips, and more! Homemade pesto is ready in about 5 minutes and can be enjoyed immediately or frozen for later. When summer hits all I want to do is eat from the garden. I don't have ...

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    Filed Under: Dips + Spreads + Salsas, Sauces Tagged With: Classic Pesto, extra-virgin olive oil, food processor

    Broccoli Cheddar Soup

    Broccoli cheese soup with shredded cheddar

    Thick, creamy, cheesy – broccoli cheddar soup as it should be! This easy recipe is made with sharp cheddar cheese, fresh broccoli florets, and simple spices you likely have on hand already. This savory, perfectly seasoned soup isn't a copycat recipe. It's just the ultimate broccoli cheese soup, ...

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    Filed Under: Easy Dinners, Soups + Stews + Chili

    Irish Shamrock Cookies

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    Cut-out Irish Shamrock Cookies are the sweetest little treats you'll have on St. Patrick's Day! All you need to make the shamrock shape is a mini heart-shaped cookie cutter. In an attempt to make the cutest St. Patrick's Day cookies ever, I simply turned mini hearts into Irish shamrocks. ...

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    Filed Under: Baking + Desserts, Cookies, Kids Tagged With: cookies, irish, shamrock cookies, shamrocks, St. Patrick's day cookies, st. patricks day

    Easy Royal Icing

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    This is my go-to royal icing recipe! It's a meringue-based decorating icing that dries shiny and hard for perfect cookies. Royal icing is the type of frosting used on many decorated cookies, especially the kind at boutique markets, because it dries hard and can be packaged without ruining the ...

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    Filed Under: Baking + Desserts, Frosting + Icing Tagged With: baking, cookies, frosting, meringue powder, royal icing

    Slice and Bake Spiral Cookies

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    These chocolate and vanilla spiral cookies look impressive, but are incredibly easy to make. Slice and bake cookies can be prepared in advance, then baked whenever a cookie craving hits! Spiral cookies, pinwheel cookies, swirl cookies — whatever you call them, I'll gladly eat a few! These ...

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    Filed Under: Cookies Tagged With: cookies, make ahead, slice and bake

    World's Best Bran Muffins

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    "World's Best Bran Muffins" is not a title to be taken lightly. Once you taste these All Bran muffins, you'll call them by no other name. You will want to eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner! These moist bran muffins are inspired by a childhood favorite. We would often have them with ...

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    Filed Under: Baking + Desserts, Bread, Breakfast + Brunch, Healthy + Diet Tagged With: best bran muffins, bran, bran muffin, bran muffins, breakfast, brunch, fiber, healthy, molasses, muffins, snack

    Spicy Steak Tacos with Pomegranates

    steak tacos with pomegranates radish and red onions

    Skirt steak is marinated in a homemade pomegranate-lime marinade, then grilled until medium rare for the best skirt steak tacos ever! This is a quick and easy recipe that tastes restaurant-worthy! Homemade steak tacos look impressive, but they're one of the easiest weeknight dinners you can ...

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    Filed Under: Beef, Easy Dinners, Grilling Tagged With: Mexican, steak, tacos

    Classic Chili with Beef and Beans

    pot of beef and bean chili

    This is a classic chili recipe with ground beef and beans is perfect for a crowd. The large batch lets you throw a dinner party or make a family meal in no time! I even give you a vegetarian version. A Simple, Perfect Chili Recipe Throwing a chili bash, making game day food, or just a ...

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    Filed Under: Entertaining, Soups + Stews + Chili Tagged With: avocado, beans, chili, classic chili, ground beef, soup, spices, stew, toppings, vegetarian

    Valentine's Day Strawberry Cake Roll

    Valentine's Day Strawberry Cake Roll

    Filled with strawberry jam and sweet cream cheese, this strawberry roll cake is the way to anyone's heart. Decorate the cake with hearts as I have for a Valentine's treat, or omit to make a classic strawberry jelly roll. I recreated my Pumpkin Cake Roll for another holiday! The pumpkin ...

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    Filed Under: Baking + Desserts, Cake, Tutorial, Valentines Tagged With: cake roll, cream cheese, filled cake, strawberries and cream, strawberry, valentines, valentines cake

    Swiss Meringue Buttercream

    Vanilla Cupcake with flower made from icing on top

    Swiss meringue buttercream is a silky icing that's made with egg whites, sugar, and butter. It's not too sweet and is perfect for piping and frosting cakes and cupcakes. In this post, you'll learn how to make Swiss buttercream, which involves heating egg whites and sugar in a double boiler, ...

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    Filed Under: Baking + Desserts, Frosting + Icing Tagged With: basics, buttercream, cake, cupcakes, dessert, frosting, icing, sugar, sweet, swiss meringue buttercream

    Indian Biryani with Chicken

    Chicken Biryani in a le creuset casserole on blue surface

    Chicken biryani is a delicious Indian casserole that calls for a paste of spices, herbs and chilies. I made it easy by using a prepared curry paste and other fresh ingredients. We all have our favorite comfort foods. In this country, most people will list something cheesy, chocolatey, or ...

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    Filed Under: Chicken, One Dish Meals Tagged With: biryani, casserole, chicken, easy dinner, food blogger olympics, food blogger winter games, Indian, olympics, one dish meal, one pan meal, rice

    Simple Butternut Squash Carrot Soup

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    This versatile butternut squash carrot soup is delicious on its own, but it can also be customized with many different flavor variations. Make it vegan, stir in coconut milk, try it with apples or curry powder — the options are almost endless! I love simple, seasonal butternut squash soup. ...

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    Filed Under: Soups + Stews + Chili, Vegetables Tagged With: butternut squash soup, easy dinner, soup, vegan, vegetarian

    Sheet Pan Chicken and Cauliflower Roast

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    Sheet pan chicken and cauliflower roast is an easy dinner that takes just 10 minutes to prepare before tossing it into the oven. No extra sides required, it's a meal in itself! Creating This Sheet Pan Chicken and Cauliflower Roast "Family meals" were one of my favorite things about ...

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    Filed Under: Chicken, Easy Dinners, Main Dish Tagged With: cauliflower, chicken, dinner, easy, golden raisins, one pan, parsley, pine nuts, roast, roasting, tomatoes, weeknight

    Seared Strip Loin with Linguini with Fennel and Olives

    bowl of linguini with sliced steak

    This seared strip loin steak pasta takes just 30 minutes to prepare! It's a simple yet impressive dish that's perfect for date nights in or dinner parties. If you just read the title of this recipe and thought, "There's no way I can cook a strip loin steak on my own," think again! Strip ...

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    Filed Under: Beef, Easy Dinners, Grilling, Pasta Tagged With: olives, orange, pasta, steak, steak and pasta

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