Traditional green beans almondine are a classic French side dish, but today we’re upgrading this simple recipe to an incredibly delicious and flirty Green Beans Almondine with Caramelized Almonds! Picture this – fresh steamed tender green beans, lightly seasoned with garlic and herbs, tossed in a buttery sauce, then sprinkled with Parmesan cheese and topped with sweet and crunchy Caramelized Almonds that add a touch of indulgence to this simple dish. Trust me, this recipe will leave your taste buds (and maybe even your heart) fluttering!
This is one of my favorite ways to serve green beans – so simple to make and absolutely delicious! It’s perfect with fresh green beans from our garden or the farmers market, and a family favorite for holiday dinners. Add some crisp bacon crumbles, and it makes for a light and easy summer dinner all by itself!
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If you're looking for a cookie that will make your taste buds sing and your heart skip a beat, you need to try these bakery-style gourmet English Toffee Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies. Rich and buttery, and loaded with caramelized toffee bits and silky milk chocolate, they have a soft and chewy texture on the inside and perfectly crisp golden edges.
It’s like a party in your mouth with every bite, and hands down the best oatmeal cookie variation there is! They're the perfect treat for any occasion, whether you're sharing them with friends or keeping them all to yourself. Trust me, you won't be disappointed! If you love chocolate and peanut butter, you are going to LOVE Gourmet Buckeye Brownies! Deep, velvety chocolate is perfectly balanced with smooth, nutty peanut butter, making an irresistible combination you won’t be able to resist!
Start with ultra-fudgy brownies stuffed with peanut butter cups, top with a rich and silky Peanut Butter Fudge Filling, drizzle with a swirl of decadent dark chocolate ganache made with premium chocolate and cream, creating a silky-smooth finish that’s pure indulgence. For extra “buckeye” cuteness, I top with miniature buckeye candies. These are sinfully delicious and unapologetically decadent and indulgent! Spring is the season of new beginnings, and what better way to welcome it than with a sweet treat that embodies the essence of the season? Lilac Sugar and Lilac Simple Syrup are delightful ingredients that bring a unique floral flavor to so many things! Lilac Sugar and Lilac Simple Syrup are not only delicious and so easy to make, but the soft purple color adds a pop of color to any dish, and the delicate flavor of lilac adds a touch of old-fashioned sophistication to your springtime entertaining. Lilac Sugar and Lilac Simple Syrup capture the essence of spring in every bite. With its unique flavor and charming appearance, both are the perfect addition to your spring baking and beverage repertoire.
With the promise of warm spring days, lilac is the first hint that spring has arrived - and my favorite scent of late spring! We have planted dozens of lilac bushes around our yard over the years, just so that we can enjoy that wonderful fragrance for as many days as possible. What's even better is preserving that wonderful smell by infusing it into sugar. Springtime in a jar! There's nothing quite like the combination of chocolate and strawberries, and when you combine them with sugar cookies, you get a truly decadent and indulgent treat that's perfect for any occasion. These Chocolate Covered Strawberry Sugar Cookies are easy to make, and they're sure to impress anyone who tries them! These soft and chewy sugar cookies are bursting with the sweet flavors of strawberry and drizzled with rich, creamy dark chocolate. Trust me, you won't be able to resist!
If you’re looking for an easy recipe for scrumptious, buttery cookies with crinkly tops, crisp edges, soft and chewy centers, this is the recipe for you. These are the perfect soft and chewy sugar cookies for sunny summer celebrations, and with the bright color of fresh berries and filled with fresh strawberry flavor and decadent dark chocolate, they are also perfect for Valentine’s Day, Mother's Day and any special day! Chicken Wild Rice Casserole is the perfect comfort food – warm and hearty, rich and creamy! Packed with tender chunks of chicken, a nutty wild rice blend, caramelized onions and earthy mushrooms, and fresh vegetables, it is covered in a velvety and rich creamy cheese sauce and topped with a buttery crumb topping – a family favorite that is filled with hearty flavors and textures, and oh-so satisfying! Easy to make ahead of time or frozen for later, this flavorful casserole is perfect for weeknight dinners, potluck suppers or as a wonderful casserole to drop off for a friend
Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Brownie Cookies are a fresh take on your favorite brownie cookies! With a thick chocolate cookie base and topped with a cool and refreshing mint ice cream buttercream frosting, you won’t be able to stop yourself from enjoying these! Inspired by Crumbl, these gourmet cookies are an indulgent treat that combines the classic flavors of chocolate and mint in a deliciously unique way.
These cookies are perfect for anyone who loves the cool and refreshing taste of mint ice cream paired with rich, decadent chocolate - soft and chewy, with just the right amount of sweetness! So fast and easy to make, with a no-chill dough, it’s easy to see why these are always a favorite for special occasions and everyday treats! Don’t you hate it when your favorite restaurants close up and you can never enjoy your favorite foods again? This sweet and simple Fanny Baer’s Shrimp Salad with Avocado Ranch Dressing is a family favorite from Fanny Baer’s Restaurant, a wonderful seafood & steakhouse that was located in Sandusky, Ohio from 1980 to 1986. Fresh salad greens tossed with fresh shrimp, mandarin oranges and toasted coconut are drizzled with the BEST Avocado Ranch Dressing ever!
We used to buy the dressing from Fanny Baer’s and bring it back to Minneapolis to enjoy – it was that spectacular! For years we tried to find the recipe for the wonderful Avocado Ranch Salad Dressing – I tinkered around and created our own recipe years ago, which absolutely makes this fresh Shrimp Salad shine! This may be the best salad combo ever for a sunny summer day, and it’s one of the most popular recipes on my website. If you’re looking for a wonderful springtime recipe to serve family or guests, this easy Carrot Cake Banana Bread is always a huge crowd pleaser – it tastes just like a cross between moist carrot cake and your favorite banana bread. With a super-moist texture, buttery banana flavor, an incredibly soft crumb, and stuffed with tender carrot bits and crunchy pecans, this is even more wildly delicious than it looks! It’s dense, yet ultra soft and flavored with brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg.
Is it Carrot Cake? Is it Banana Bread? It’s BOTH! Trust me when I say that this Carrot Cake Banana Bread tastes phenomenal all by itself – but for something special, you can top with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting for a whole new level of flavor and fancy! Looking for the perfect cosmic brownie recipe that will satisfy your sweet tooth? Look no further than these Gourmet Cosmic Brownies that are sure to take your taste buds on a cosmic journey!
When you were little, who didn't love finding a Little Debbie Cosmic Brownie tucked into their lunchbox? Now that your tastes have grown up, you've got to try Gourmet Cosmic Brownies! With simple ingredients and so quick and easy to whip up, these decadent treats are ultra rich, fudgy and chewy - the perfect brownies, topped with a silky chocolate glaze and sprinkled with colorful rainbow candy-coated chocolate chips. Every bite is a heavenly experience that will leave you wanting more. Trust me, once you try these Gourmet Cosmic Brownies, you'll never want to settle for ordinary brownies again! Oh how we love fresh Key Lime Curd and its sister, Lemon Curd! You can buy expensive jars of this in the gourmet section of your local market, but it is just so dang easy to make a batch of fresh! Fresh Lime Curd is super rich, creamy and buttery, slightly thicker and packs a more intense lime-infused sweet & tart “punch” than key lime pie filling or the filling in Fresh Key Lime Bars and Key Lime Cheesecake or Pie.
Made with fresh key limes, this curd is bursting with flavor and incredibly easy to make - the perfect balance of sweet and tangy, and the fresh key lime flavor really shines through! This is perfect for filling shortbread cookies, drizzling on buttermilk pancakes, perfect with fresh blueberries in crepes, or as a wonderful filling for your favorite yellow or white layer cake. Also perfectly wonderful just licking from a spoon or your finger! Move over spiral sliced Honeybaked Ham and traditional glazed holiday hams – there’s a new kid in town! With a burst of smoky flavor and all the right spices, Traeger Smoked Pulled Ham with Bourbon Peach Glaze is a new classic and easy recipe that rivals the best restaurant-quality meal.
Smoking the ham twice, low and slow, makes for wonderfully seasoned, tender and juicy pulled ham that is absolutely perfect every time! Smoked Pulled Ham with Bourbon Peach Glaze is a favorite at our house all year around, and a new crowd favorite for special family celebrations and backyard barbecues. Perfect served alongside ham dinner sides, southern barbecue sides, or piled high on fresh buns, this is ham perfection! THE HUNT FOR THE EASIEST AND BEST EASTER RECIPES ENDS HERE!Now that Easter is on the way, its time to celebrate! There's still plenty of time to plan an easy and relaxing Easter brunch or dinner with some fabulous springtime treats! The struggle for me each year is always whether we'll have Easter brunch or a more traditional Easter Dinner - everyone has their favorites! With so many kiddos running here and there, between church activities and celebrations with friends and family, it sometimes can be a challenge to figure out what is going to work out the best for everyone. Whether you're looking for something classic, a new dish to bring to a springtime celebration, or a whimsical sweet treat, here are some of our favorite recipes for Easter. It doesn't matter whether you're planning a quiet Easter celebration with just your special someone, a small family, or a huge crowd - we've got something that everyone will love! EASTER APPETIZERSSPRING MINI QUICHESSPRINGTIME CRUDITE with GREEN HERB DIPSPRINGTIME DEVILED EGGSTRADITIONAL HOLIDAY GLAZED HAMSMOKED AU GRATIN POTATOESHONEY BALSAMIC ROASTED CARROTSSOUTHERN CORN CASSEROLEGREEN BEAN ALMONDINEEASTER PASKA BREADEASY HOMEMADE CROISSANTSSUNSHINE SALADCOCONUT CREAM CAKE with COCONUT CREAM CHEESE FROSTINGROBINS EGG CHOCOLATE CARAMEL BROWNIESBUNNY PATCH EASTER TREAT BOARDOh how we love fresh Lemon Curd! You can buy expensive jars of this in the gourmet section of your local market, but it is just so dang easy to make a batch of fresh! Lemon Curd is super rich, creamy and buttery, slightly thicker and packs a more intense lemony sweet & tart “punch” than regular lemon pudding or the filling in Fresh Lemon Bars.
This is perfect for filling shortbread cookies, drizzling on buttermilk pancakes, perfect with fresh blueberries in crepes, or as a wonderful filling for your favorite yellow or white layer cake. REUBEN WAFFLE FRIESSláinte! Today it's all about the green! We LOVE to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, and with so many favorite recipes, it's a tradition that we enjoy all month long! Planning a St. Patrick's Day party is so easy and fun with these family-favorite recipes. Tried and true favorites, and a few new ones thrown in too! We have so many favorites - it's hard to pick just a few! Good thing we've got a long month to enjoy them all! WHAT WE'RE CRAVING NOW...SOMETHING IRISH!CORNED BEEF with APRICOT DIJON GLAZETRADITIONAL IRISH SODA BREADIRISH STEW with GARLIC MASHED POTATOESCORNED BEEF HASH with EGGSIRISH MAC & CHEESE |
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