“Waste Not” is a series dedicated to reducing food waste in the kitchen. You can find older posts in this series for: What to Do With Leftover Pesto What to Do With Leftover Whipping Cream What to Do With Leftover Buttermilk What to Do With Leftover Pumpkin Puree What to Do With Leftover Egg Yolks What to Do With Leftover Half and Half What to Do With Leftover Tomato Paste...

A couple weeks ago, I shared my Strawberry Milk for One or Two for everyone looking for a way to use up those early summer strawberries, and I promised that I’d share a larger recipe for everyone who went really crazy with the strawberry buying. Today is that day. Let’s make a big batch of strawberry milk syrup and tons of Homemade Strawberry Milk. And if you’ve never made strawberry milk at home, you are in for such a treat....

Hey, friends. Over the last couple years, I’ve added a few quick and easy single-serving dessert sauces to the site: 30-Second Easy Chocolate Sauce Peanut Butter Sauce Nutella Sauce 2-ingredient Magic Chocolate Shell And I have another one for you today: Hot Fudge Sauce (for one). This is your classic ooey, gooey fudge sauce that is perfect for drizzling over ice cream, brownies, maybe even some pancakes or waffles if you’re feeling real wild in the AM....

I have a ton of hot chocolate recipes on the site, Classic Hot Chocolate, Rich and Thick Hot Chocolate, White Hot Chocolate, Pink Hot Chocolate, Baileys Hot Chocolate, so I thought I had pretty much all my hot chocolate bases covered. But last year someone left me a comment blew my mind. They told me that they had taken my classic hot chocolate and made it into peanut butter hot chocolate....

Saturday Morning Snapshot Edible props from the morning’s shoots and the /Fimcast to help pass the time… State of the Blog Hey look, my Simply Delicious Asian Chicken Salad is in a round up of 15 Tasty Recipes To Help You Keep Those Healthy Eating Resolutions on Buzzfeed. You should check out the other recipes on the list. There are some really good ones on there. Also on the internets, Baking Mischief was Foodista’s featured blog of the day on Wednesday....

Saturday Morning Snapshot Can you possibly guess what the main ingredient in two of today’s test recipes was? State of the Blog On the blog this week we finished up March Meatless Mondays with a delicious creamy pasta and a round up of a year’s worth of Meatless Monday recipes, and on Friday, there was my new favorite milkshake. Have you checked out that post yet? I love everything I post on the blog, but I really love this one....

Saturday Morning Snapshot Photo shoot props/lunch… State of the Blog There was grilled cheese and Nutella all around on the blog this week. This was a fun one, but I had to send those cookies on to new homes, because I could not handle having them in my kitchen without eating them. 🙂 Next week, there’s another hot sandwich, a post on one of my favorite things, and I booze up a favorite childhood treat....

You all know how I feel about creamy, cheesy pasta. (Hello Creamy Chicken Pasta with Bell Peppers, Easy Fettuccine Alfredo With Broccoli, and cute little Mac and Cheese for One). You throw some butter, some milk or cream, and some cheese over carbs, and I am good to go. But come fall, I start wanting to a little something extra in my pasta, like maybe some bacon, or maybe some butternut squash, or maybe both… Folks, please allow me to introduce Bacon Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese for Two....

Yesterday I shared my favorite BBQ shredded chicken recipe, and today I’m sharing my very favorite thing to make with that BBQ chicken, BBQ chicken sandwiches. These sandwiches are pretty much my ideal sandwich. They’re built on a lightly toasted brioche bun with tender smokey sweet shredded chicken and a tangy crunchy coleslaw that brings everything together. Best of all, these sandwiches are super easy and surprisingly fast to make....

Today I have for you another Carne Asada recipe made with my absolute favorite Carne Asada Marinade, super quick and simple Carne Asada Tacos. Easy Carne Asada Tacos Recipe These carne asada tacos are made with tender and tangy marinated carne asada that is a total cinch to make and topped with lightly charred red onions, sliced avocados, and cilantro. Technically the tacos take about 24 hours to make since you’ll want to marinate your carne asada overnight (both for flavor and for convenience), but your actual hands-on cooking and prep time is very short....

I have another Valentine’s Day recipe for you today. So far in this category this year, I’ve made Heart Cookies with Cinnamon Icing and Poe’s Jacket Star Wars Cookies, but those are treats for boring old human beings. Today I’m sharing treats for our most adorable valentines, our pets! I have a bad habit of feeding my pets people food. My cats like popcorn and pineapple off of pizza, my dog lives for table scraps, and my horse’s favorite treats are sour patch kids, but I know those aren’t exactly good for them....

Choose your own adventure with these easy baked donuts that you can make three ways: Maple Bacon Donuts, Milk and Cereal Donuts, or Coffee and Chocolate Donuts! Spring is here in Southern California and that always makes me want to enjoy lazy mornings, stay in my pajamas, throw open all the windows to let in the morning breeze, and make something indulgent for breakfast. And today I’m partnering with Safeway to do just that....

Did everyone have a good Easter? Mine was very low key and involved a couple of bordeaux eggs and a sugar coma… We’re going to finish of our March Meatless Monday series with some more comfort food, Easy Fettuccine Alfredo With Broccoli. Who doesn’t like Fettuccine Alfredo? Seriously, I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who isn’t a fan. I mean, what’s not to like. It’s creamy, cheesy, and delicious, aaaaaaaand, slurpy fettuccine noodles are just plain fun to eat....

Craving pumpkin pie, but not quite sure you want an entire full-size pie sitting around the house? I have just the recipe for you. This cute little 6-inch pumpkin pie is a scaled-down version of my perfect pumpkin pie recipe that I posted yesterday. It’s rich, super creamy, and packed with warming fall spices. A 6-inch pie is almost exactly half the size of a 9-inch pie, so it makes 4 generous slices or 6 smaller ones and is the perfect size for a couple of people to enjoy over a weekend....

Saturday Morning Snapshot Ella, upon realizing she’s not invited to see Cap 3… State of the Blog You can find Baking Mischief recipes in a few roundups this week: Salted Pretzel and Nutella Chip Cookies in “17 Sweet And Salty Ways To Take Pretzels To The Next Level” on BuzzFeed, Margherita Pizza in Karen’s Kitchen Stories’ Bread Box Round Up, and Ashley Benson’s site XOBenzo featured my Star Wars BB-8 Cupcakes for May the 4th in “Star Wars Cupcakes That Will Blow Your Mind....

Sometimes there’s nothing quite as satisfying as digging into a big bowl of rice and meat and beans. You could run out for takeout and buy a burrito bowl, but they’re pretty delicious and easy to make at home. Make these with leftover barbacoa if you have it or follow my easy barbacoa recipe for tender fall-apart meat with hardly any hands-on cooking time. Ingredients Cilantro rice: This homemade cilantro rice is made with 4 ingredients, butter, long-grain rice, cilantro, and a lime....

Last week, I shared Carne Asada Burrito Bowls made with my favorite Carne Asada recipe. And friends, I’m still on a carne asada kick (the best, most delicious sort of kick), so today I have another carne asada recipe for you: Carne Asada Salad. Carne Asada for Salad I know it’s not necessarily the first meat that comes to mind when you think of a protein for salad, but carne asada is actually pretty perfect for the job....

This post has been updated. Don’t worry. You’re in the right place. 😉 When I was a poor, frazzled college student living on fast food and Lean Cuisines, I had a standing Thursday-TV-and-dinner night with a couple of friends. We’d get together once a week, watch the NBC comedy block over takeout, and decompress from all the stresses of college life. One of those cold, Pacific Northwest evenings, that week’s host suggested we try our hand at cooking our dinner instead of ordering it and showed us a chicken peasant soup recipe she had printed out from the internet....

A few years ago, I posted a recipe for Shepherd’s Pie With Ground Beef for Two. Since then, along with the many happy comments I’ve received about the recipe, I’ve gotten a LOT of not-so-happy messages about its name (I get it) and questions asking how to make it a full-size pie. So today I present to you, a full-size COTTAGE pie, because I love you guys and I want you to be happy....

Time for an Oreo Milkshake! The Best Oreo Milkshake Recipe A good Oreo shake is one that is creamy and thick but not so thick you can’t drink it with a straw, with the perfect ratio of Oreos to ice cream. This is just such a shake, and I’m pretty positive you’re going to love it. Ingredient Notes Oreos: For that classic cookies and cream milkshake flavor, use traditional chocolate and cream Oreos (or store-brand cookies), but feel free to experiment with different flavors....