This easy winter salad is sweet and tangy. The cranberry vinaigrette pairs perfectly with juicy oranges and dried fruit, freshening up your classic winter flavors. I’m always looking for a salad worthy of my special holiday dinners and great for the winter months. It needs to be pretty ...
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Butternut Squash Soup with Easy Flavor Variations
This versatile Butternut Squash Soup is delicious on its own, but can be made with many flavor variations. Make it vegan, stir in coconut milk, try it with apples or curry, the options are almost endless! I love simple, seasonal butternut squash soup. Its velvety texture and sweet and ...
Best Winter Soups
Want a warm pot of comfort for dinner? These Favorite Winter Soups are just the ticket. There's nothing quite as wonderful in the cold weather as a bowl of soup that's warming, flavorful and filling. These are the best winter soups you'll find! Plus check out my tips for freezing ...
Chicken Chili Verde
Chicken Chili Verde is made with a homemade sofrito, a flavorful mix of onions, garlic and peppers. Loaded with great taste, tender chicken and white beans it's perfect with crushed tortilla chips and sour cream. I often start my homemade soups off with a mix of onions, celery and ...
Cookie Bars with Pistachios and Cherries
These low-fat Cookie Bars with Pistachios and Cherries are lower in fat and calories than traditional cookies, but loaded with taste and holiday festiveness! Sparkly sugar seems to make everything more festive. But the red of cherries and green from crunchy pistachios make these cookie bars great ...
New York Eats – Restaurant Guide From A Local Food Editor
The New York Eats essential guide from a local food editor. I tell you where to go for the best burgers, healthy options, authentic pizza, fine dining and the most delicious treats the city has to offer. The Tara Teaspoon New York Eats restaurant guide is a list of my favorite ...
Baby Lamb Chops Appetizer with Red and Green Sauces
Baby lamb chops with festive holiday sauces are as elegant as they are delicious. This easy-to-make appetizer is perfect for any celebration. A party buffet needs all sorts of delicious, and festive dishes. Baby lamb chops, with frenched bones for handles and red and green sauces, ...
Earl Grey Cocktail for a Sophisticated Sip
An Earl Grey Cocktail is the perfect tea cocktail. This sip gives you a sophisticated taste with a slightly sweet finish. Tea is a perfect ingredient for creating new cocktails. And Earl Grey tea is the perfect one to make this refreshing alcoholic tea cocktail! Grab some Earl Grey tea ...
Spice Cake With Creamy Caramel Icing
Spice cake with creamy caramel icing is light and flavorful. The cooked caramel frosting is smooth and delicious like brown sugar fudge. Take it from me you won't want to miss this combination. Spice cake with caramel! It's one of the best things in life. This two-layer, ...
World’s Best Bran Muffins | Tara Teaspoon
World's Best Bran Muffins is not a title to be taken lightly. Once you taste these, you'll call them by no other name! You will want to eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner! These tasty little baked goods are inspired by a childhood favorite. We would often have them with ...
Creamy Caramel Icing
Creamy Caramel Icing makes spice cake sing, chocolate cake a dream and cupcakes do the happy dance. It's a vintage recipe that should become one of your new classics. The first thing you need to know about this glorious frosting is that it is vintage. It is! That doesn't mean it's old ...
Cashew Cookies with Brown Butter Frosting
Cashew Cookies with Brown Butter Frosting are my favorite oatmeal cookie from childhood. Chewy and full of nuts, topped with buttery icing. I could eat the entire pan of these cashew cookies with brown butter frosting. They are like soft, buttery oatmeal cookies on cashew steroids, plus ...
Tropical Vacation Mango Smoothie
Packed with calcium, protein, vitamin C and fiber, this Tropical Vacation Mango Smoothie is the ultimate, healthy smoothie recipe. It starts your day off right and gives you all the energy you need. I am always in the mood for a delicious smoothie, but especially this one—it is packed with ...
Classic Creole One Pan Jambalaya
One pan Jambalaya is classic Creole cuisine. Make it your way for an easy meal everyone will love. With some Cajun seasoning, the holy trinity of Louisiana, chicken, sausage and shellfish, you can enjoy this classic Creole dinner in about an hour and a half. Plus, you finish it in the ...
Halloween Spiderweb Caramel Apples
Halloween Spiderweb Caramel Apples are a classic fall treat, with chocolatey, sweet little crawlers. These apples just got spooky! Caramel apples with spiderwebs are a spooky-sweet Halloween treat! This classic is a fall staple, whether you cover those apples in a caramel coating, or dip ...
Pumpkin Marshmallows on Cupcakes
Pumpkin Marshmallows on Cupcakes are fluffy, sweet, Halloween treats. Mini marshmallow pumpkins replace a traditional frosting and make these little cakes unique. Halloween is here again! These mini pumpkin marshmallows sit on cupcakes and tease me with their soft, pillowy sugaryness. A ...
Halloween Monster Chicken Sliders
Halloween Monster Chicken Sliders are a goulishly fun way to feed the party crowd. They make an easy grab-and-go meal before trick-or-treating too. The googly eyes on my Halloween monster chicken sliders will bring all the Wonder Women and Storm Troopers to the table. The Tex-Mex ...
Polka Dot Halloween Cupcakes
Halloween cupcakes get topped with chocolate candy polka dots for tasty cuteness. Easy to make with pantry ingredients, you'll be the hit of the costume party! These Halloween cupcakes can be your October go-to party dessert. They are a cinch when you use cake mix and prepared frosting ...
Pecan Streusel Apple Pie with Perfect Pie Crust
Pecan Streusel Apple Pie makes a classic even better. With nuts and spices layered in between sliced apples, it's a fall dessert that will make everyone happy as, pie! Pecan streusel apple pie takes a classic fall dessert to the next level. I nestled nuts, spices and apples into my perfect pie crust ...
Apple Dumplings With Cider Sauce
Simmered Apple Dumplings with Cider Sauce and a dollop of cream is a Fall dessert you won't want to skip. The juice the dumplings cook in becomes a tangy and sweet sauce. These apple dumplings are simmered in the season's best treat, fresh apple cider. They are sticky and sweet on the outside with ...
