Salted Caramel Sauce with Vanilla Beans

Salted Caramel Sauce with Vanilla Beans

I mean, what is there really to say about this stuff?  It’s gooey salted caramel sauce that’s studded with vanilla bean flecks. There you have it. Put it on ice cream, bake it into brownies, top cupcakes with it, dip apples into it, or eat it by the spoonful.  Any way you drizzle it, it’s … Read more

Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies

Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies

I first made Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies as a mark my second month with The Secret Recipe Club in December 2011 and it really had already been such a fun experience that I repeated it a lot of times since then. This month I was bookmarking all kinds of things to make (as usual), while I saved many … Read more

Cheese Ball

Cheese Ball

I giggle every time I say Cheese Ball. Childish, I know. I can’t help it!! I’m usually not a huge fan of cheese balls, but this one is so good. I think it’s the pineapple…I don’t know. I’ve had this recipe for a while now and finally made it to take to a family dinner. … Read more

Buttermilk Roasted Chicken

Buttermilk Roasted Chicken

Oh, roast chicken. You are a sight to behold in all your glory.  With crispy skin, juicy interior, and flavor throughout, you are magnificent. And I shy away from you. Why? Because you intimidate me. You are big, take a long time to cook, are messy, and just scary sometimes. You are Buttermilk Roasted Chicken. Jump … Read more

Pasta with Pancetta and Peas

Pasta with Pancetta and Peas

As I was looking through some magazines, I saw this recipe for carbonara and did something that I never do. I went to the store RIGHT THEN and retrieved the needed ingredients for  dinner that same night. I am not really a more-than-once-a-week-shopper. I make a meal plan, shop once, and don’t go back to … Read more

Orange BBQ Sauce

Barbecue sauces in restaurants always terrify me – how I can make something like this at home? Our local bbq restaurant makes delicious orange bbq sauce and that time I was cooking pulled pork and decided to try making my own orange sauce. Plus, I’ll share the recipe of pulled pork I made with orange bbq sauce … Read more

Dr. Pepper Pulled Pork

Dr. Pepper Pulled Pork

Hands down, pulled pork is one of our favorite meals.  If my boyfriend got to choose, I think he’d eat that (happily) every day.  I’ve only recently come to even like it, still never actually wanting it but these are the things that we do for those that we love.   I had to check out The Pioneer … Read more

Slow Cooker Pulled Pork with Griddle Corn Cakes

Slow Cooker Pulled Pork with Griddle Corn Cakes

One of our favorite food is a BBQ and specifically pulled pork. I picked this Slow Cooker Pulled Pork with Griddle Corn Cakes recipe because there were the griddle corn cakes.  It sounded so different and so interesting that I just had to try them.  In the end, they almost stole the show from the pulled pork! … Read more

Authentic Mexican Ground Beef Taco Recipe

Authentic Mexican Ground Beef Taco Recipe

I love traditional tacos! Or I should say, I used to love tacos. Then I fell out of love with the taco seasoning packet and hadn’t found a suitable replacement…until now. This Authentic Mexican Ground Beef Taco Recipe came to me in an E-mail Recipe Exchange. I was so excited! I can’t really give proper … Read more

Qdoba Chicken Recipe [Copycat]

Qdoba chicken recipe

Qdoba Chicken is basically a copycat recipe for Mexican style marinated, juicy, and rich in flavor boneless and skinless chicken. Qdoba chicken recipe can be part of delicious burritos, tacos, quesadillas, sandwiches, bowls, or can be served as it is. It is an easy recipe, but it takes a little bit of patience, as we … Read more