Hey friends, we’re halfway into November, and if I had my way, it would be all comfort food all the time for dinner around here. I have a ton of comfort food recipes on the site, Ham and Potato Soup, Beef Stroganoff, Classic Roasted Chicken, and today I’m sharing one of my newest comfort food favorites, Pork Ragu. This is one of those dishes that is perfect for lazy, overcast Sundays....

I have a very quick (but useful) recipe for you today: fast and simple Taco Seasoning. Quick Homemade Taco Seasoning Recipe This is a pared-down recipe for those times you need some taco seasoning, but don’t have or want to locate and measure out a million spices. You can throw it together in about two minutes, and it adds a TON of fabulous flavor to anything you’re using it on/in....

Nerd Month week two, Bryan Fuller Week day two. Today’s recipe inspiration is Pushing Daisies! Those who follow my Weekend Posts, might have seen me mention that I rewatched Pushing Daisies recently. If you were a fan of the show, one, we should be friends because you are clearly Good People, and two, then I’m sure you can imagine what a bittersweet delight that’s been. This was my first time rewatching the show in years, certainly my first time since Fuller’s most recent show, Hannibal, and I was struck with the sweet and gentle delight of it all....

It’s a fact of this world that a little peanut butter can improve almost any dessert. Stir a spoonful into hot chocolate, a milkshake, a batch of oatmeal cookies, and it’s going to be a good time. Today, let me introduce you to my latest peanut butter obsession, peanut butter whipped cream. PB + whipped cream is just such a good combo. It’s rich, creamy, super smooth, and totally packed with peanut butter flavor....

Hey, friend, if you need a dinner that comes together and cooks up with no fuss and basically zero hands-on cooking time, today’s recipe’s got your back. Let’s make Sheet-pan Sausage and Veggies. An Incredibly Easy Dinner Recipe When it comes to easy dinners, it doesn’t get much simpler than drizzling a bunch of veggies and sausage in olive oil, tossing them on a tray, and letting them hang out in the oven to roast while you go about your evening....

It’s Girl Scout Cookie season! Were you a Girl Scout? I was a Girl Scout. This time of year always brings back fond memories of that period of my life: riding a bike without training wheels for the first time during a meeting, making SWAPS, watching troop leaders chase a flaming paper towel across a campground during a multi-troop camping trip… I loved being a Girl Scout as a girl, so I thought it would be fun to create a series of Girl Scout-inspired cupcakes as an adult....

These muffins are an apple cinnamon dream, packed full of caramelized fruit, they are sweet, cinnamon spicy, and amazing. And the crunchy streusel top is just the icing on the cake. This is a small-batch apple crumb muffin recipe, so as written, it yields six gorgeous little muffins, but you can double it with no preparation changes if you want a bigger batch. Functionally, small-batch recipes bake up just fine in modern muffin pans (no need to fill empty slots with water, etc....

Hey, happy Monday! How was your weekend? I have something warm and cozy for you today. As I saying in my Bacon and Butternut Squash Side Dish post last week, this time of year, as it starts to get colder, I always start craving comfort food. So I figured it was about time to share one of my favorite comfort foods in the world, Macaroni and Cheese! I have a couple Mac and Cheese recipes on the site already....

Hey, friends. I’ve posted a lot of Starbucks-copycat/inspired recipes on Baking Mischief over the years, BUT until now they’ve mostly been coffee-based (like my Mocha, Caramel Macchiato, Caramel Latte, etc.). Well no more. Tea lovers, get hyped, today’s recipe is for you: Chai Tea Latte. Incredibly Easy Chai Tea Latte This homemade chai latte is beyond simple to make at home. It’s warming, the perfect level of sweet, and if you’re a chai tea drinker, you probably have the ingredients in your cupboard already....

Today I have a fun and easy snack/meal/midnight kitchen project for you, cheesy fries! The good news (and maybe bad news) is that this is extremely easy to make at home, and all you need is a couple of russet potatoes, cheddar cheese, and some fridge and pantry staples. Oven-baked Homemade Fries If you have a bag of frozen fries in your freezer, you can absolutely use those, but these oven-baked homemade fries are really good and really simple to make....

A good cilantro lime rice recipe is one of those dishes everyone should have in their cooking arsenal because it is endlessly useful. It can be used as a filling in burritos, a base to build rice bowls, or serve it as a side to complete a meal. It’s filling, delicious, and has just the right balance of cilantro and bright tangy lime flavor so you’ll want to serve it with everything....

It’s week four of my June Barbecue Menu where I’ve spent the month putting together an entire meal’s worth of BBQ courses. I started with Strawberry Limeades, followed that up with Loaded Baked Potato Salad with Yogurt as the side, used some Basil and Garlic Steak Marinade on some gorgeous rib-eyes for the main course, and now it’s time for dessert! And surprising absolutely no one in the world who knows me, it’s s’mores themed....

Okay guys, I was not going to do another Star Wars recipe after my BB-8 Cupcakes. When I started this blog, I said I’d limit myself to one nerdy recipe per franchise, lest the blog just become all Hannibal recipes all the time (people-free obviously, and I’m saving that one for a special occasion). BUT, I wanted to do a nerdy/pop-culture Valentine’s Day treat and once this idea popped into my head, it refused to leave....

Hey, friend, if today feels like a pancake day and you don’t have a house full of people to feed this morning, you are in the right spot. I have a bunch of pancakes for two recipes on the site: Pumpkin Pancakes, Fluffy Buttermilk Pancakes, Banana Pancakes, but today’s recipe is for mornings when you’re flying solo: Pancakes for One. These are perfectly fluffy, soft and lovely pancakes just waiting to be slathered in butter, drizzled with syrup, and inhaled....

On Wednesday, I shared a recipe for Nutella baking chips. Today, we’re going to put those chips to use with Salted Pretzel and Nutella Chip Cookies! If you read my Weekend Posts, you’ve actually already seen a peek of these cookies. My BFF since childhood came into town a few weeks ago and I put this recipe together for her on the fly since, as we’ve established, baking for people I care about is one of my favorite things in the world, and I’d noticed that she’d had these cookies from the fantastic Averie Cooks pinned forever....

Friend, if you’re a fan of muffins, pumpkin, streusel, or all of the above, please make these muffins right now. You’re going to love them so much. They’re so easy to toss together and bake up with the most beautiful streusel-covered tops. They make your kitchen smell amazing and you’ll feel like a total baking genius when you take your first bite. This recipe will make eight muffins so there are just enough to share if you really want to or keep them all for yourself if you don’t....

It’s been soup month here, so I would be remiss if I didn’t post one of my favorite sides to pair with soup, Cayenne and Cheddar Cheese Scones. Honestly, these things are like the bastard love child of a biscuit and scone. They are a little more substantial than a biscuit but lighter and less crumbly than a traditional scone. I actually went and did some research on the difference between the two because I wanted to make sure I was labeling them correctly, and apparently, people have some VERY strong opinions on the subject....

If you’ve never had a peanut butter oatmeal cookie before, friend, you’re in for a treat. They’re the perfect cookie hybrid. All the satisfying, rich peanut-buttery flavor of a good peanut butter cookie and the bendy, chewy texture and crispy edges of an oatmeal cookie. Plus (at least here in California) this isn’t a cookie you see every day, so you set out plate of these, and people are always excited to get something a little different and new....

We’re deep into comfort food season at this point, and today I have a new version of one of my absolute favorite comfort foods for you, stroganoff! Growing up, we always made stroganoff with beef top sirloin, but in college, I learned that you can make an absolutely killer pork stroganoff with the WAY cheaper and very tender pork tenderloin. Best of all, the pork version is just as easy to make and satisfying as the beef version....

Are you a Nutella fan? I feel like I was completely late to this whole Nutella thing. It wasn’t a staple in my house growing up. I don’t think I ever even heard the word “Nutella” until a couple of years ago after the rise of Pinterest when suddenly Nutella desserts were taking over the internet. It was even longer before I actually got around to trying the stuff, but once I tasted it, I was like, Okay....