It is fun to customize our Easy Vanilla Muffin recipe. If you keep the proportions of sugar, flour, fat and liquid fairly steady, you can go off road and try any number of flavor combinations. Coffee Chocolate Mini Chip Muffins look and taste like a decadent coffee house …
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Deep Dish Chicken Pot Pie
A great chicken pie is simple, yet seductive. Flaky, buttery crust, chunks of roasted white meat chicken and savory cream sauce are bound together to make this classic comfort food meal. To vary things a bit, you can add all manner of vegetables to the pie. Potatoes, carrots, …
Easy Vanilla Muffins
Who would not want to hang out with a with a rich, delicious friend that was also easy to get along with? Enter the anti-plain-Jane of the quick bread crowd, Easy Vanilla Muffins. I have been making these basic, easy to adapt, rich and rewarding muffins since my days as chief …
Creamy Carrot Tomato Soup
Creamy Carrot Tomato Soup is equally delicious served warm or cold. This soup is a real keeper! I have served it hot, alongside open-faced pepper jack and bacon cheese toasts for a quick, homey lunch. Grilled cauliflower steaks are elevated when served on a pool of warm Carrot …
Eggless Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Fudge
This one is for the guys who have a Valentine who loves cookie dough (or those of you who love cookie dough and your Valentine needs a hint). My wife, Sara, loves cookie dough. Hands down her favorite Mason Jar Vanilla Bean Cheesecake was the one with balls of cookie dough in it. …
Spicy and Sweet Roasted Pecans
Rich, roasted, burnished, buttery, salted pecans are a cocktail hour staple in the South. Growing up, I remember grabbing handfuls of salted butter baked pecans when the grownups were occupied with their toddies and happy hour conversations. Pecan halves were slow roasted with …
Sangria Made Simple
Sangria is colorful to look at, fun and festive to drink and very, very simple to make. The basics of making Sangria are as easy as slicing a lemon. When you visualize sawing into a piece of fruit, S. (sweetener), A. (alcohol), W. (wine) and fruit you are actually thinking of …
Hoisin Ginger Lime Chicken Salad
This Asian influenced chicken salad is crackling, fresh and alive with flavor. Taylor and I used our Salt and Pepper Chicken Breasts in a salad that features cooling batons of english cucumber, crispy yellow bell peppers and crunchy Chow Mein noodles. The Hoisin Ginger Lime …
Orange Almond Chicken Salad with Creamy Orange Dressing
Caramelized Orange and Smoky Sweet Paprika Chicken Breasts make the ideal base for a refreshing Orange Almond Chicken Salad. Chunks of roast chicken are tossed with fresh orange segments, roasted salted almonds, chopped celery, bits of orange bell pepper, minced red …