This Small Macaroni Salad is the perfect simple side for small get-togethers and dinners with friends! I have a confession: You know what my favorite summer food is? It’s not ice cream. It’s not s’mores. It’s not even a perfectly cooked and marinated ribeye steak (though that’s a really close second). It’s spoonfuls of macaroni salad stolen from the fridge on a hot summer day. I don’t know what makes this taste so good....

A grown up grilled cheese sandwich loaded with bacon, avocado, chicken, and pepper jack cheese. True story: I didn’t learn how to make a proper classic grilled cheese sandwich until I was in my late teens. You need white bread and sliced american cheese to make perfect diner-style grilled cheeses and I was raised in a whole wheat and block cheddar household. The day I finally got my hands on some individually wrapped, processed as heck cheese slices and melted them over the whitest of white bread, stands out as the first great grilled cheese milestone in my life....

Here’s how to make the best cinnamon toast ever. A few months ago, I saw a restaurant photo on Instagram of a slice of cinnamon toast with the most gorgeous caramelized layer of cinnamon sugar over the top, and I immediately set about trying and recreate it at home. After a bit of trial and error, friend, I’d like to introduce you to the best cinnamon toast I’ve ever eaten....

You can make a fantastic sweet and creamy banana milkshake without ice cream. All you need is a blender, a ripe banana, and a handful of pantry staples. I love a good milkshake, and a couple years ago I started uploading a bunch of milkshake recipes to the site ( How to Make a Milkshake , The Best Vanilla Milkshake , Banana Milkshake , Oreo Milkshake , etc.). Since then, I have gotten a TON of requests for a milkshake without ice cream, and today that day has finally come....

Super thick and creamy chicken pot pie soup has all the delicious flavor of chicken pot pie without the long cooking time. Short on time tonight, but craving a warm and comforting slice of chicken pot pie? You should make pot pie soup instead! What is Chicken Pot Pie Soup? Pot pie soup is basically chicken pot pie filling with a little extra milk and broth that turns it into a super creamy and rich soup....

This quick weeknight Chipotle Turkey Panini has chipotle aioli, crunchy red onions, sliced turkey, melty cheese, and avocado. The last hot sandwich in our April Hot Sandwich series is brought to you by the California drought. A few years ago, my favorite sandwich in all the world was this amazing cheesy, melty, messy chipotle panino sold at a tiny artisan deli located near my boarding barn on the Kern river....

This easy Creamy Chicken and Asparagus Pasta is quick and simple to make and perfect for nights when you need a cheesy pasta fix! While we were in college at opposite ends of California, my sister and I used brainstorm cheap and easy meals together and send each other recipes that we were thinking about trying. Early on, she sent me a recipe that she was considering, a creamy chicken and asparagus pasta where the asparagus was boiled right in with the pasta, and I completely talked her out of it....

This homemade Chicken Peasant Soup is easy, fast, and delicious! 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....

Saturday Morning Snapshot It was a lazy morning for everyone here at casa mia… State of the Blog Am I crazy, or did this week go by insanely fast? It seems like I just hit publish on last week’s Weekend Post… This was a fun week on the blog. I got to share a recipe that was one of my most made meals in college, some cornbread made exactly how I like it, and a cupcake recipe I love to look at, but would never, ever eat (if you haven’t, read that post to find out why )....

This incredibly good sausage potato soup is thick, cheesy, and decadent but so, so easy to make. My ham and potato soup is one of Baking Mischief’s OG reader favorite recipes. You all are constantly sending me nice messages about that recipe, and it’s been pinned more than 180k times on Pinterest. So today, in the hopes of giving you another soup you might love, I present, cheesy sausage potato soup....

Coffee ice cubes give you the ability to make yourself an iced coffee at any time, with any temperature coffee, without watering down your coffee or fiddling with cold brew. I have a non-recipe recipe for you today. Less an actual recipe, more like a hey, you should start doing this because it’s kind of amazing . Turn your coffee into ice cubes!! Coffee Ice Cubes: The Perfect Way to Use Up Leftover Coffee Why are we not all making coffee ice cubes all the time in the summer?...

This Easy Cheesecake Recipe is a family favorite, and it makes an extremely creamy baked cheesecake with a smooth sour cream layer over the top and irresistible cinnamon graham cracker crust. Today is a very exciting day because I’m finally sharing one of my family’s favorite desserts, my mom’s famous cheesecake. This is the first dessert she ever made for my dad when they started dating, and it’s the one she makes on his birthday every year....

Wondering what to do with leftover Easter candy? Make an Easter Candy Freakshake. Ridiculously fun and ridiculously good! As is the tradition here at Baking Mischief, I like to use this day not as a chance to play a trick on you, lovely readers, but for us all to play a trick on our bodies and make something terrible and ridiculous and insane. Last year, I made a Salted Caramel Snickerdoodle Milkshake (I still have cinnamon and caramel dreams about that one), and this year, since Easter falls in April, I made an EASTER CANDY FREAKSHAKE!...

Chicken, mushrooms, and delicious caramelized onions cooked up in a wine and cream sauce and served over rigatoni. A lightened up version of the Macaroni Grill favorite. My mom’s birthday is in March and for about three years in a row, my family would do one of two things. We would go out to dinner at Macaroni Grill, where she would order Carmela’s Chicken, or we would all get together and I’d make a copy cat version of Carmela’s Chicken for her....

This Top Sirloin Steak with Mustard Sauce recipe is my go-to dinner for busy weeknights when I’m craving red meat! It’s fast, healthy, and delicious. Monday’s come around again. How was your weekend? Mine was lovely. As I mentioned in my Homemade Kettle Corn post last week, it’s fair time around here, so I got in a little fair visit and went to the movies to see Magnificent Seven . Not a bad weekend at all....

14 fabulous lighter desserts for times when you want a little sweet, but healthier! This sort of last-minute recipe failure has happened a couple times before. Like when I decided a recipe just wasn’t quite good enough and wrote instead about my favorite Podcasts To Cook To (all of those recommendations still stand) or when a delicious dessert experiment came out looking kind of like an undersea monster so I wrote about 8 Life-changing Kitchen Tools ....

This easy homemade barbacoa recipe makes fall-apart tender beef that’s perfect for tacos, burritos, and sandwiches. Today’s recipe is my favorite sort of recipe to share because like my carne asada and carnitas recipes, it’s endlessly useful. You make a big batch of barbacoa at the beginning of the week, and you can eat it a million delicious ways. Its smokey, tangy flavor only gets better as it sits in your fridge, so it’s ideal for leftovers....

This Easy Carnitas Recipe makes amazing carnitas: rich, tender shredded pork with crispy, crunchy edges, perfect for tacos, burritos, or just eating by the forkful. The post includes step-by-step instructions and everything you ever wanted to know about making carnitas. 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...

This creamy chicken pasta with bell peppers is rich, filling, and so easy to make. It’s a quick dinner that everyone will love. If you’re craving a big cozy bowl of creamy pasta, this is the recipe you’re looking for. It’s simple and incredibly easy to make, but so rich and satisfying that you definitely feel like you’re treating yourself. You really can’t go wrong with cream and parmesan, but throw some diced bell peppers and chicken in there and you’re taking your pasta game up to a whole new level....

This vegan vegetable stew is made with potatoes, corn, carrots, and celery simmered in a slightly spicy, tangy tomato base. A flavor-packed, low-calorie dinner that just happens to be vegan. Happy Monday, all! We are on week number two of March Meatless Monday Meals and today’s recipe is one that brings back so many busy-college-student memories. Remember last week in my Slow Cooker Baked Potatoes with Broccoli and Cheese Sauce post when I mentioned I was vegan for a while in college and survived on vegan hot dogs and oreos?...