Chicken bacon ranch pizza is one of my favorite clean-out-the fridge recipes. Have some leftover chicken? Perfect excuse to make a pizza! Bacon you need to use up? Put it on a pizza!! Half a bottle of ranch you’re tired of looking at? It’s pizza sauce now! You can throw this pizza together with almost no effort, and because it’s pizza that involves bacon, ranch, and chicken, you know it’s going to be delicious....

Alright, coffee lovers, I have a little treat for you today. We all know regular whipped cream is great. A spoonful of chocolate whipped cream is positively sinful, and cream cheese whipped cream should be eaten by the spoonful. But you know what all those recipes are missing? Caffeine. And that’s clearly a missed opportunity. That’s right, friends, today let’s caffeinate our whipped topping and make some coffee whipped cream....

Good morning! How are you on this fine Friday? Feeling a little harried from the holidays? Run down by the work week? If that’s the case, I have a little weekend pick-me-up for you today: the best, easiest, most amazing Chocolate Pudding for Two. And if you’re sitting there, nose crinkled, remembering bland pudding eaten in school cafeterias out of little plastic cups, thinking you outgrew chocolate pudding years ago, friend, I have great news for you....

If you need a quick and easy midweek meal, it really doesn’t get better than Naan Pizzas. They feel like a total treat, prep and cook in about 20 minutes, and you can grab all the ingredients pre-made, pre-shredded and ready to go on your way home from work. This recipe will make four naan pizzas. If that’s a couple pizzas too many for you, I highly recommend freezing the leftovers (or double the recipe and make extras for freezing) because naan pizzas freeze extremely well....

It is an absolute fact that the best breakfast in the world is waffles with whipped cream and strawberries in strawberry syrup (we can fight about this in the comments if you want 😉). Here on the blog, I have a recipe for (the best) homemade waffles and whipped cream (made three ways), and today I’m adding the recipe for strawberry syrup so you have all the tools needed to make the breakfast waffle stack of your dreams....

We’re officially halfway through January. Are your resolutions holding up? I hope yours are going better than mine! I’m finding it pretty difficult to limit the sugar right now, because while it may be healthy January, I’m eyeballs deep in Valentine’s Day recipe testing (spoiler: I’ve got some really good ones coming up for you). Let’s just say there have been indiscretions with cinnamon rolls that if you follow me on Twitter, you are probably already privy to… And it’s a fact of life that it’s a lot harder to find people to pawn sweets off on in January than it is in December!...

Last year, I published a post on How To Make Gravy from Drippings that you guys really seemed to love. So this year, as gravy season rolls around, I wanted to give you an alternative gravy recipe for those times you don’t have any meat drippings on hand. This gravy’s not going to have the meaty, smokey flavor you get from using meat drippings, but it’s a great, creamy gravy that will absolutely satisfy your gravy cravings....

Looking for a tasty veggie side? Well, look no further, because I’ve got a good one for you, my favorite Bacon and Green Beans Side Dish. A couple months ago, I shared my No-fail Butter and Garlic Green Beans and those have ended up being one of the most popular recipes on the site. These are the same easy peasy deal, but instead of tossing home-cooked green beans in butter and garlic, you cook up a couple slices of bacon and toss the beans in the bacon drippings....

How are you enjoying October so far? Are you getting enough pumpkin in your diet? Are you taking in your recommended daily dose of scary literature? 😉 I’m doing my very best to make your October just a little more unsettling with my Creepy Foods from Fiction series. Have you been following along? So far I’ve made Sanguinaccio Dolce from Hannibal and Spectre Apple Pie (Cupcakes) from Big Fish. Today, I’m posting a recipe for Crimson Peak Red Velvet Lava Cakes!...

As sad as it is, all good things must come to an end, and we find ourselves today reaching the end of our January salad series. We’ve been all over the map with these salads. There was the hearty Cobb Salad, the delightfully sweet and fruity Asian Chicken Salad, a BLT in a bowl with the Light and Healthy BLT Salad, and for our last salad, we are going south of the border with a Slightly Spicy Chipolte Chicken Salad!...

Hey friend, searching for a breakfast worth getting out of bed for? These blueberry waffles are just the thing you need. Sit down in front of a stack of these, and from your first crispy, perfect bite, you’ll be so glad you got up to greet the world (or at least this plate of waffles.) Why These Waffles Work They start with a good waffle recipe: The base recipe for these is my favorite waffle recipe in the entire world....

Today’s recipe is a combo of two coffee house favorites: a White Chocolate Mocha and Peppermint Mocha. Let’s make a White Chocolate Peppermint Mocha! You get the rich, smooth and creamy white chocolate mocha base with a warming peppermint kick. It’s just the sort of thing you want to wake up with around this time of year. Usually in a drink like this, you would use peppermint extract, but I know that’s not something everyone keeps stocked....

You all know I’ve been on a bit of a carnitas kick the last few months. I posted both (stove top) Carnitas and Slow Cooker Carnitas, along with Carnitas Tacos, Carnitas Enchiladas, and Carnitas Burrito Bowls to use up all that crispy, gorgeous meat. I have one final (for now) carnitas recipe for you today, and it’s possibly my favorite because it’s so good/ridiculous/extra: Carnitas Nacho Fries. Yes, that is a bunch of random good food words all smashed together, and yes, you absolutely need Carnitas Nachos Fries in your life....

Okay, you all know that I love every recipe I share here, but there are some that I get extra excited about sharing. My Oven-roasted Tri-tip was one (and it has been incredibly pop ular). My Freezer Meatballs were another (these have not been popular at all, people, go fall in love with them!!), and today I have another recipe I’m really excited about: carnitas!!! Have you ever made carnitas?...

Happy Thursday! How is your week going? I’m hosting Fandom Foodies this month (you can read more about that in this post), and our theme is Game of Thrones recipes! I already have one GOT recipe on the site, the delicious and deliciously fun Frey Pie. But as much as I love that recipe, it’s a PROJECT. With the seventh season of the show premiering next month and, I’m sure, tons of viewing parties on the horizon, I wanted to make something that everyone, with every sort of schedule, could make....

Hey, friends. Summer officially starts this week, so I thought it’d be a good time to have a little chat about one of my favorite summer desserts, milkshakes. Milkshakes are simple enough to make at home, but if you’ve ever accidentally made a too-milky mess of a shake or stood shouting at your blender full of ice cream as it runs and runs but does not blend, you know that they also have the potential to be a little frustrating....

In college, my sister and I started a gingerbread house tradition. While home for Christmas breaks, when the novelty of no homework began to wear off, just before the boredom of being home really started to drive everyone crazy, we’d put on a day-long marathon of movies, tear our parents’ kitchen and dining room apart, and make a gingerbread house. We made our first house in 2009 out of graham crackers and have made one every year since, finally graduating to actual homemade gingerbread last year....

Well, that’s it, friends. We’re (nearly) at the end of 2017, a year that has somehow felt both incredibly short and a-million-years long. This will be my last post of the year, and to close things out, I’m taking a look back in the archives and sharing my favorite Baking Mischief recipes of 2017. These are the recipes I was most excited for you to try, the ones that were the most fun create, and the ones I loved the best....

Ready for your new go-to no-fail veggie side dish? I’d like to meet these perfect, wonderful garlic green beans that are ABSOLUTELY FOOLPROOF. They’re boiled, so you don’t have to worry about burning them while they cook. You can make them with pre-trimmed green beans, so no cutting required if you don’t want to. And, best of all, if your timing is off and the green beans finish cooking 20 minutes before your main dish, they get tossed in a hot pan with butter right before serving, so they’ll heat right back up!...

Welcome to our March blog series. After January salads and February soups, we’re tackling something I’m a little less comfortable with, Meatless Monday meals. I love the idea of Meatless Monday. I think it can be hugely impactful on your health, your wallet, and the environment. But in practice, I’m pretty terrible at it. The recipes you’ll see featured here this month are most of the vegetarian recipes (that aren’t some form of mac and cheese) that I would consider tried and true in my recipe file....