Pico de Gallo is quick and easy, made with only a handful of ingredients, amazingly fresh and healthy and makes everything taste 1000X better! Pico de Gallo, AKA fresh tomato salsa, is made with tomatoes, onions, cilantro, jalapenos, lime juice and salt. It takes minutes to whip up and is great as a party appetizer,…
Roasted Salsa Verde (+ Video!)
This Salsa Verde Recipe takes less than 15 minutes to make, tastes way better than your favorite restaurant or jar and elevates everything it touches! This Authentic Salsa Verde Recipe is going to leave you never wanting to buy salsa again! It’s quick, easy, healthy, saves beautifully and you can customize the heat and consistency….
Homemade Italian Dressing
This Homemade Italian Dressing is quick and easy to make, 1000X better than store bought, fresh and natural and is wonderfully versatile! This easy Homemade Italian Dressing is a balanced tangy and testy blend of olive oil, red wine vinegar, pantry herbs and spices and the best part – Parmesan Cheese! It elevates and enlivens…
Blender Hollandaise Sauce
5 Minute Blender Hollandaise Sauce that’s luxuriously creamy, buttery, lemony and SO easy! You will never go back to Classic Hollandaise Sauce again!
Brown Sugar Carrot Cake Crepes with Cream Cheese Filling and Blueberry Sauce
Easy Blender Brown Sugar Carrot Cake Crepes are about to become one of your family’s favorite crepes! Stuffed with silky sweet Cream Cheese and smothered in the most amazing Blueberry Sauce – these are addicting and so fun!!
Cashew Chicken Salad with Pineapple Ginger Vinaigrette
Cashew Chicken Salad with juicy coconut, cashew crusted chicken, pineapple, mangoes, cucumbers, lettuce, green onion and red bell peppers and Pineapple Ginger Vinaigrette! This Cashew Chicken will transport you to the tropics with its paradisaical flavors and textures and you’ll never want to come back! September has always been one of my favorite months….
Cajun Chicken Tenders With Peach Barbecue Sauce
Cajun Chicken Tenders that are wonderfully juicy on the inside, crispy on the outside with just the right amount of spice all over. There is nothing like a big bucket of crispy KFC fried chicken – on the beach. A friend brought KFC to the beach once and it immediately became our favorite “beach…
Pineapple Cranberry Sauce
This sweet and tangy homemade Pineapple Cranberry Sauce is so much better than canned, incredibly easy, stress free and make ahead! This company rave worthy Pineapple Cranberry Sauce will be your new favorite cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving! As a child at Thanksgiving, there were always extra mashed potatoes in the place of Cranberry Sauce. …
Simplify Your Life with Real Plans Meal Plans!
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Asian Peanut Coconut Dressing
This post is epic. Not only does it include my new 5 Minute Asian Peanut Coconut Dressing that’s ridiculously delicious – I’m also sharing a collection of the BEST 5 Minute Blender Salad Dressings… AND a BLENDTEC GIVEAWAY! Wahoo! (scroll to very bottom to enter) First, let’s start with this luscious, flavor packed Asian Peanut Coconut…
Easy Creamy Coconut Caramel Sauce
Fool Proof, easy, creamy COCONUT Caramel Sauce is 1000X better than store bought and will have you drinking it from the saucepan! Forget the old adage of “licking the spoon,” this Coconut Caramel will have you guzzling it – straight up. One of my favorite recipes ever is my Easy Creamy Caramel Sauce, and judging by…
Blueberry Pineapple Salsa
Refreshing sweet, bright Blueberry Pineapple Salsa is addictingly delicious with chips, on chicken, fish, tacos or just a spoon! This easy salsa makes everything better and is the easiest tastiest appetizer! Have you had the pleasure of consuming Blueberry Pineapple Salsa before? By the chipful? the spoonful? Its exquisite! Bright, sweet pineapple, sweetly tart blueberries,…
5 Minute Creamy Whipped Roasted Red Pepper Feta Dip or Spread
Mega creamy Whipped Roasted Red Pepper Feta Dip or Spread is so addicting you will be dunking everything in it! The perfect party dip that everyone will LOVE and it only takes 5 minutes to whip up – literally! You guys, this dip is one of my new obsessions. I even added the leftover dip…
5 Minute Chocolate Sauce/Ganache
Celebrating National Dairy Month in June with foolproof 5 Minute Silky 5 Minute Chocolate Sauce AND The Dairy Good Cookbook! Happy National Dairy Month! Milk, cheese, sour cream, cottage cheese, cream cheese, yogurt, ice cream, ice cream covered in chocolate sauce – this chocolate sauce – I love it all! I was the reason my…
Pineapple Salsa (Grilling Option)
Pineapple Salsa made even more delicious by grilling the pineapple, red bell peppers, red onions AND jalapeno! Possibly the best sweet and smokey salsa E-V-E-R! This Pineapple Salsa makes everything better! Serve it as a dip or on fish, chicken, tacos, etc! While we all love our Homemade Restaurant-Style Salsa and Salsa Verde, there is something magical…
Fresh Blueberry Sauce or Syrup
Sweet and Fresh Blueberry Sauce or Syrup drenching your pancakes, cheesecake etc. in 10 minutes! Seriously, this recipe is priceless. It turns everything it touches into foodie gold. I have been waiting for blueberry season to share this incredible concoction with you. Its been a long wait. And although blueberry season doesn’t technically start…
Easy Orange Syrup
Its the most wonderful time of the year for one really important reason. And then there’s food. The holidays are a time to go all out and make those recipes you’ve always wanted to make for friends and family. The time to actually make breakfast like Overnight Creme Brulee French Toast, Cheesy Breakfast Pot Pie…
5 Minute Perfect Caramelized Nuts
You may want to double this “recipe” (quotations because I can barely call it a recipe its so easy!) for these 5 Minute Perfect Caramelized Nuts because you won’t be able to resist their caramelized crunch as they beg to be eaten sprawled out unprotected on parchment paper as they cool. But if they make…
Pomegranate Pear Salad with Creamy Pomegranate Dressing
Pomegranate Pear Salad is SO addictingly delicious bursting with sweet pomegranate arils, pears, apples, cucumbers, peppers and creamy feta complimented by salty roasted pistachios and pepitas all doused in Creamy Pomegranate Dressing! Pomegranate Pear Salad is the perfect showstopping salad for Thanksgiving or just plain delicious for everyday! I am so honored today to have joined…
5 Minute Mango Honey Jalapeno Chimichurri
I have 2 “summery” recipes left for you. Well, really 1 1/2 because they both star this Mango Honey Jalapeno Chimichurri. That’s how much I love it and that’s why I have to share it with you NOW because this favorite sauce of mine ever cannot wait for you to make until next year! And you…