Archives for 2019

Fresh Roasted Green Beans with Bacon and Shallots

These tender, crisp Fresh Roasted Green Beans with Bacon and Shallots are perfect for company or as an easy weeknight side dish!

Who doesn’t love bacon with their beans? Add silky, sweet shallots and its a side dish made in heaven.

This is one of my all-time FAVORITE Company or Holiday Side Dishes. I adore roasting vegetables because it’s ridiculously easy and roasting them enhances the flavor of the vegetable by caramelizing the natural sugars. The tender, crisp green beans with the salty, crunchy bacon, silky, sweet shallots, with just a hint of balsamic vinegar is the perfect flavor combination that is sure to please any crowd.

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Homemade Red Sauce in Less then 40 Minutes!

Quick and easy Homemade Red Sauce in Less then 40 Minutes is infused with red wine, fresh vegetables, herbs, and spices sure to elevate any Italian meal!

Everyone should have a go-to, high-quality Red Sauce, sometimes called Marinara, in their recipe box. A good red sauce that doesn’t have to simmer for hours is such a versatile element in so many recipes, especially if you want dinner on the table in under an hour.

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Baked Chicken Ricotta Meatballs

Tender and flavor packed, these Baked Chicken Ricotta Meatballs are so incredibly easy and so insanely delicious!

Incredibly juicy, these meatballs are made with ground chicken, ricotta, and fresh-grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese and will quickly become a favorite. Made without breadcrumbs, the tender texture is almost indescribable and is simply scrumptious. The best part? From beginning to end, they are ready in about 30 minutes!

These meatballs are amazing with my favorite Homemade Red Sauce, your preferred pasta, use in place of Italian Sausage on the Italian Bomb Sandwich, your best Alfredo Sauce, as a pizza topping, or add a toothpick as an easy, make-ahead appetizer, these little balls of joy are sure to please.

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Garlic Shrimp with Mango Cucumber Salsa and Coconut Rice

Garlic Shrimp with Mango Cucumber Salsa and Coconut Rice is created with garlic and orange juice marinated shrimp that are quick sauteed and served with a bright and beautiful Mango, Cucumber, and Tomato Salsa. The tropical, summer flavors are complimented with tender, flavorful coconut rice.

Looking for ways to use up the summer bounty of tomatoes and cucumbers? Garlic Shrimp with Mango Cucumber Salsa and Coconut Rice combines those flavors when they are at their best and brings them to life in an unique, tropical way.

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Grilled Asparagus with Grilled Lemon

Grilled Asparagus with Grilled Lemon is fresh and earthy, cooked to tender-crisp perfection, and enhanced with the smoky, charred burst of bright lemon flavor.

If you are looking for an easy warm weather side dish, but want something new and a little different, Grilled Asparagus with Grilled Lemon is the perfect, quick spring or summer side.

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Fresh Peach Pie With Homemade Crust

A little bit of summer in every bite, Fresh Peach Pie With Homemade Crust uses juice-dribbling-down-your-chin fresh peaches combined with brown sugar and spice to create the ultimate, blissful summer dessert.

I don’t know about you, but I eagerly anticipate when the first Georgia peaches come into season. Ripe, juicy, dribbling-down-your-chin yummyness.

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Homemade Flaky Pie Crust Recipe

This Homemade Flaky Pie Crust Recipe came straight from my Grandmother and turns out perfectly every time!

unbaked Homemade Flaky Pie Crust with peach filling

Tender, easy, and very flaky, I’ve been making this Homemade Flaky Pie Crust Recipe since I made my first pie at the age of 10. While I won’t comment on how many years that actually is, rest assured it’s been thoroughly tested.

Everyone has an opinion on pie crusts. Lard, butter, oil, shortening or even a combination.

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Grilled Street Corn Salad

Everything you love about Mexican Street Corn, but transformed into the perfect sharable side dish, Grilled Street Corn Salad is absolutely perfect for your next barbecue, potluck, or Taco Tuesday.

Mexican Street Corn or Elote is a dish that consists of cooked sweet corn slathered in an incredible mixture of mayonnaise, crema, and chili powder and then sprinkled with cotija cheese. It’s a popular snack sold by vendors on the streets and at festivals in Mexico and also by food trucks in the States.

Our Grilled Street Corn Salad combines fresh sweet corn straight off the barbecue grill, along with grilled limes, jalapenos, and red onion that is mixed with the perfect blend of mayonnaise, crema, mexican spices, cilantro, and a healthy amount of cotija cheese.

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Sesame Beef Stir Fry

This better then restaurant quality Sesame Beef Stir Fry is ready in under 30 minutes! Melt in your mouth slices of beef marinated with ginger and soy, tossed with tender-crisp carrots and onion, all swirled together with a savory sauce that’s slightly sweet with a pinch of heat.

This much healthier version tastes even better then take-out and isn’t deep fried in oil. The crispy edged beef is tender, flavorful perfection. And the sauce! If I could do it without being seen, I would totally lick my plate. The sauce has all the delectable flavors of fresh ginger, soy, and toasted sesame.

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Cast Iron Skillet Blackberry Crumble

Cast Iron Skillet Blackberry Crumble is bursting with the bubbly deliciousness of perfectly ripe blackberries and lemon zest, all topped with a buttery, crisp crumble. Less then 10 minutes of preparation never tasted so good!

There is almost no better (or easier!) way to turn one of your favorite summer fruits into a stunning dessert then this simplicity-at-it’s-best Blackberry Crumble. And when you combine berries with lemon? It’s a symphony on your palate!

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