I have another quick and easy steamed vegetable recipe for you today: microwave carrots! Microwave Carrots: The Easiest Way to Cook Carrots This might not seem like the most glamorous way to cook your carrots, but friend, if you’re short on time, it is one of the quickest and easiest ways to get some veggies on your plate. And bonus: cooking carrots this way is actually really delicious. The bright and sweet combo of the steamed carrots with a tab of butter and sprinkle of salt and fresh ground pepper is total comfort food, and absolutely worth the (extremely minimal) prep....

Hold on to your butts, guys, because we’ve reached my most anticipated Nerd Month and Bryan Fuller Week post. It’s Hannibal day! Hannibal is a show I adore and still can’t believe existed. It was rare and lovely and horrifying and beautiful. It definitely wasn’t for everyone, but for those of us who loved it, the show was a treasure. So I’m pretty excited to finish out Fuller Week with a Hannibal recipe....

As a food blogger, I get asked for recipe suggestions all the time, and I’m usually thrilled to oblige (it’d be silly to run a food blog if I weren’t). But there’s one recipe people ask me about the most that I just didn’t have a good answer for, banana bread. Sure I have my ever-popular small-batch banana muffins and my absolute fav chocolate banana muffins, but I’m SUPER picky about my banana bread, and I just didn’t have a favorite full-size banana bread recipe I could unreservedly recommend....

These roasted sweet potato cubes are one of my absolute favorite fall side dishes. They’re super simple to throw together and roast up beautifully with creamy insides and sweet and salty flavor that goes so well with almost any main dish. Ingredient Notes Sweet potatoes: Sweet potatoes come in a variety of colors, and you can roast any of them, but I recommend going with the red/orange-skinned, orange-flesh varieties for their flavor and creamy texture....

It’s the first full week of June, which means it’s time to start a new monthly series! In May, we did an entire month of Nerdy recipes. This month, we’re returning to the once-a-week themed recipe model and making a BBQ menu! I’m starting with a beverage, and over the next three Mondays, we’ll have a BBQ-friendly side, entree, and dessert so at the end of the month, you’ll have an entire delicious BBQ menu ready to go....

Looking for an easy chicken dinner that’s packed with flavor? Chicken shawarma is just what you’re looking for. Give the meat a quick marinade while you prep the rest of your ingredients, and then the shawarma cooks up super quick and simple and is a total crowd-pleaser. What is Shawarma? Shawarma (also spelled shaurma, shoarma, shwarma, and shawirma) is a Middle Eastern dish made by roasting a cone of meat on a vertical spit....

Looking for something extra sweet to add to your holiday dessert table? I have just the pie for you: Dutch Apple Pie. This is one of my absolute favorite pies, and I highly recommend you give it a try sometime. It’s a perfect dessert-to-impress for guests and even better if you just want to really treat yourself (because then you don’t have to share). 😉 What is Dutch Apple Pie?...

Looking for a new recipe that is simple, delicious, and pretty much fool-proof? This Mississippi Pot Roast recipe might be just what you’re looking for. This recipe requires almost no measuring or cutting. All you have to do is (optionally) sear a chuck roast, throw it and the rest of your ingredients into a crockpot, and press start. You’ll end up with a roast that is incredibly rich and tangy with just a hint of spice that everyone will love....

You might also like my Cheddar Cheese Scones, Small-batch Bacon Scones with Maple Glaze and Small-batch Maple Scones. I realized today as I was putting this post together, that for a blog that’s barely four months old, Baking Mischief sure does have a lot of tea-party ready recipes. There are my Perfectly Pretty Lemon Bars, my Sherlock Tea Bag Cookies, Victoria Sponge Cupcakes, etc. Am I subconsciously trying to tell myself something?...

This super fast and simple recipe for homemade Italian seasoning can be made in under 5 minutes by combining common spices you probably already have in your pantry. Make this once, and you’ll never want to buy grocery store Italian seasoning again! How to make Italian Seasoning In the middle of making dinner and you just popped in to grab the recipe? Here you go so you can get back to cooking....

You guys know I love pizza. I’ve made it quite a few ways for the blog, classic Margherita Pizza, Hawaiian Naan Pizza (with The Best Homemade Pizza Sauce in existence), even turned pizza into Pizza Tarts! But what I haven’t had on the blog is a pizza with white sauce. Until today! Say hello to my Naan Chicken Alfredo Pizza! This is the perfect pizza to make when you have a little leftover chicken or too many fresh tomatoes from the garden and need something simple-to-make for dinner....

I have a really fun, really decadent dessert recipe for you today, a giant S’mores Cookie. Gooey S’mores Cookie for Two For this recipe, I took my Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe and stuffed a s’more inside because sometimes you just need more good things in the world. The result is an already outrageously good cookie that is now filled with melty milk chocolate, gooey marshmallows, and a bit of graham cracker crunch....

A few weeks ago, I posted these (AMAZING) Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies. It was a big-batch recipe meant for sharing and freezing, so I promised that I’d add a small-batch version ASAP for those of you who are here for small-batch desserts. So here we go. Let’s make a cute little batch of Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies and share with no one. If you haven’t ever tried this combo, do yourself a favor and make these immediately, because PB and Oatmeal are basically a perfect pairing....

There are a lot of versions of Christmas snowball cookies out there. Most of them involve nuts, some of them pie crust, but this is what a snowball cookie was in my house growing up: crunchy, crumbly, buttery shortbread wrapped around a Hershey’s Kiss and dredged in powdered sugar. I make them every year when my whole family is together for the holidays, and I always stash a couple at the back of the cupboard just for myself because even set out among total winners like my Snickerdoodle Sandwich Cookies, Chai Sugar Cookies, and Gingerbread Men, they are always one of the first cookies to disappear....

Hey, friend. Welcome to October, AKA the month where we put pumpkin into everything: pumpkin pasta, pumpkin pancakes, pumpkin donuts, pumpkin lattes, and today, cookies. Might I interest you in some Small-batch Pumpkin Cookies With Cream Cheese Frosting? (If your answer is no, we might not be able to keep being friends.) These cookies are a pumpkiny fall dream: chewy, spicy, soft, and smothered with tangy cream cheese frosting. The recipe will make just eight cookies, and like most of my small-batch cookie recipes, it’s quick, easy, and super simple to throw together....

Everyone should have a good biscuit recipe up their sleeve. And for nights when you have a pot of soup simmering on the stove and need a quick and easy side dish to serve alongside, you couldn’t ask for a better biscuit recipe than this one. Quick and Easy Biscuits These biscuits can be mixed, baked, and on your table slathered in butter and honey in about 20 minutes. Unlike traditional buttermilk biscuits which require you to rub chilled butter into flour, cream biscuits are made with heavy cream, so all you have to do is whisk together 4 ingredients and then stir in cream....

A while back, I shared my favorite Carne Asada marinade with you, and today, I’m sharing my very favorite way to use that marinade: to make steak fajitas. Friend, these steak fajitas are SO GOOD. Plus, since this is a recipe that does best with a nice long marinade, if you start marinating your fajita steak the night before, your meat can go from marinade to plate in less than 20 minutes when dinner time comes around....

Hey, friend. Need something good and simple and easy today? How about a burrito bowl? Yes, I said a burrito bowl. I used to be kind of down on the whole food-in-a-bowl trend (someone, please explain to me how smoothie bowls are anything but exhausting), but you know what? I think burrito bowls are a force for good in the world. See Also: Carne Asada Burrito Bowls They’re a big ol’ bowl of comfort foods thrown together and smothered with guacamole....

We’re slowly approaching the end of soup season, but before we pack away our sweaters and say goodbye to the cozy winter evenings, there’s one more soup recipe I want you to try, potato bacon soup. This soup is total comfort food. It’s rich and cheesy and SO easy to make. And it should be added to your soup rotation immediately. Why This Soup Works It’s double thickened: This soup is thickened twice, once with potatoes, by smashing and mixing some of them into the soup and then again by adding a thick and creamy cheese sauce....

For Christmas this year, family on the East Coast sent a big box of gourmet popcorn. It was basically the best Christmas gift ever because I love popcorn, and I love choices, and this was just a giant box of different popcorn flavor choices. There was everything from jalapeño-flavored kettle corn to chocolate-covered kettle corn with crushed potato chips (POTATO CHIPS!). But my favorite flavor of the bunch was some fabulous cinnamon bun popcorn, and since I love making kettle corn, obviously I was going to try and recreate it here on the blog....