This Easy Pesto Chicken Pasta for Two looks and tastes great but couldn’t be easier to throw together. I feel like it’s been a long time since I last posted a creamy, cheesy pasta recipe. I looked back in the archives and my last was my Bacon Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese , four months ago, and my Mac and Cheese for One months before that. That’s too long! So today, Easy Pesto Chicken Pasta for Two With Oven-Roasted Tomatoes....

This Mozzarella Chicken Bake is a quick and easy chicken dinner. The chicken breasts come out perfectly moist and are cooked directly in your favorite marinara sauce and then topped with tons of mozzarella cheese. Need something easy but hearty for dinner tonight? This mozzarella chicken is just what you’re looking for. Why You Should Make Mozzarella Chicken Tonight It’s super easy and most of the cooking time is hands-off. Once you brown your chicken breasts and add the sauce, your work is pretty much done....

Honey roasted carrots, sliced carrots roasted until tender and then tossed with a sweet and sticky honey butter sauce, are a simple and crowd-pleasing side dish that you can have ready for the oven in just minutes. Honey roasted carrots are a fantastic way to dress up classic roasted carrots. Roasting carrots already brings out their natural sweetness, and tossing them with a sticky-sweet honey butter sauce makes them completely irresistible....

Snowball Cookies are perfect Christmas cookies. They have a cute festive name, they’re super easy to make, and they’re a total crowd-pleaser, so everyone’s happy when they show up on a cookie plate. 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....

You will love these Small-batch Apple Pie Bars with their buttery shortbread base, gooey apple cinnamon center, and crunchy streusel topping. Last year around this time, I shared these Small-batch Pumpkin Shortbread Bars , and I love that recipe, but I’ve been dreaming about an apple version ever since. So today, that’s what I’m sharing: Small-batch Apple Pie Bars! These bars turned out to be everything I wanted and more. On the bottom layer, you have a buttery beautiful shortbread layer....

These easy Small-batch Chocolate Cinnamon Rolls with Espresso Glaze can be prepared the night before and then baked in the morning for a hot, chocolatey breakfast in bed. Last year around this time, I posted my Easy Overnight Cinnamon Rolls for Two . They were one of the first really popular recipes on the site, and are probably the sweet recipe I get the most positive feedback on (thank you to everyone who has tagged me on pictures of them on Instagram –I LOVE seeing them!...

It’s our last day of 2015! You know what that means. It’s time to take a look back and reflect on the year we’ve lived. Did we accomplish all the goals we set for ourselves? Did we put more good into the world? Did we eat enough cookies? My 2015 was pretty uneventful, but I spent it with people I love and people I like, and I definitely ate enough cookies, so I’m calling it a good year....

These fluffy and perfect Pumpkin Pancakes are packed with pumpkin and warming spices and might just be your new favorite fall breakfast. These pancakes are everything good about fall: a brisk October morning, a worn-in slouchy sweater, a grande Pumpkin Spice Latte , all served up in a beautiful heaping stack of carbs. They’re completely delicious, perfectly fluffy, and really, really simple to make. If you have a can of pumpkin puree in your pantry, you probably have the ingredients make some pumpkin pancakes right now....

Insanely chocolatey Brooklyn Blackout Cupcakes made with three different types of chocolate, stuffed with a creamy chocolate pudding, and topped with sprinkles and a chocolate glaze. For me, the real heart of the Captain America series is our Brooklyn boys so when it came time to choose some Cap-themed recipes, Brooklyn Blackout Cake immediately sprang to mind. Marvel via Tumblr Brooklyn Blackout Cake originated in Brooklyn from the Ebinger Baking Company, which opened its doors in 1898 ....

Frozen Hot Chocolate is the perfect icy and refreshing warm-weather treat and can be made with just five ingredients and five minutes. Have you ever made frozen hot chocolate? If you haven’t, we should fix that today. It’s everything you love about a creamy glass of hot chocolate , but iced so you can still enjoy (frozen) hot chocolate even when it’s 100 degrees outside. Best of all, frozen hot chocolate is super simple to throw together at home since it’s literally just hot chocolate ingredients blended with ice....

This recipe for small-batch Angel Food Cupcakes will make six dreamy marshmallowy cupcakes perfect for a light dessert. Light and easy Pasta Primavera with sweet crunchy bell peppers, tomatoes, and lean chicken breast served over penne pasta and topped with Parmesan cheese. It’s Monday! How was your weekend? Did you watch the Golden Globes last night? Did any of your favorites win? I’m an awards show junkie, so I made naan pizza for the occasion (OMG, so good, recipe coming soon) and happily settled in for three hours of beautiful people giving each other awards....

What to do with leftover pumpkin puree: Instructions for storing and freezing pumpkin puree, and 40+ recipe ideas to use up leftovers. I have another entry for you in my “Waste Not” series, a series dedicated to reducing food waste in the kitchen. Last time we tackled What to Do With Leftover Buttermilk . Today let’s chat about pumpkin puree. What is pumpkin puree? Canned pumpkin puree is a glorious product of convenience....

This easy Chicken Fajita Salad with quick homemade dressing is packed with a ton of flavor and textures and is incredibly satisfying and filling. Hey, friend, if your salad game is feeling a little stale, I have just the recipe to make you get excited about salads again: Chicken Fajita Salad. Chicken Fajitas…As Salad This recipe is my classic Chicken Fajitas (already a total delight on their own) served up over a bed of crisp romaine with diced avocado and tomatoes and topped with a creamy homemade Southwestern dressing....

How to make an easy and delicious homemade mocha, no espresso machine or hot chocolate mix needed. I’ve shared a bunch of easy coffee recipes on the site in the past, my Iced White Chocolate Mocha , Chai Tea Latte , Pumpkin Spice Latte , and Caramel Macchiato , but this homemade mocha might be the easiest of them all. It’s sweet, chocolatey, and takes hardly more time to make than adding cream and sugar to your morning coffee so it can be the thrown-together treat that gets you through a crazy busy morning or something to sip slowly on a lazy Sunday morning....

How to Steam Broccoli in the Microwave, a quick step by step tutorial. One of the earliest recipes I shared on this blog was my Butter and Garlic Green Beans recipe . At the time, it was my ultimate no-fail lazy-bones vegetable side recipe, and I still love it. It’s also one of the most popular recipes on the site, so clearly you guys love it too. But since then, I’ve found an even EASIER, LAZIER vegetable side, one that requires me to turn on neither oven nor stove: Microwave-Steamed Broccoli....

This Panda Express-Inspired String Bean Chicken is light, simple, and delicious. If you’re looking for a healthy dinner for two, look no further! Happy 2017! How was your New Years Eve? Did you watch the Sherlock season 4 premiere yesterday? Oh man. Rough. (And you know I love this show–I made Sherlock cookies last year!) We’re back for another year of recipes, and as is tradition, recipes on the blog this month will be on the lighter side....

You can make a warming cup of peppermint hot chocolate at home with just a few pantry staples and a candy cane. No special extracts or syrups needed. Is it really the holiday season if you don’t have at least one cup of peppermint hot chocolate? I think not. This is one of my favorite drinks as soon as the weather begins to turn cold, and while it’s perfectly lovely to order one while I’m out and about, I love that it’s almost as easy and just as delicious to throw one together for myself at home....

This easy Beef Teriyaki can be made with store-bought or homemade teriyaki sauce and comes out tender and tangy with lightly charred edges and is just perfect over a big bowl of rice. Today’s recipe is another super easy and fast dinner for weeknights, beef teriyaki. This beef teriyaki is one of my current favorite weeknight meals. Depending on how ambitious you’re feeling, it can be a two-ingredient dinner (use store-bought teriyaki sauce) or follow my recipe to make your own and feel super smug about the amazing homemade teriyaki sauce you just made from scratch (seriously, this sauce is the best)....

This Quick Keto Fried Rice will hit all those fried rice sweet spots without all the carbs. Hey, friend. If you’ve been craving fried rice, have a half-used bag of cooked cauliflower in your fridge, or need a super quick and easy low-carb meal, I have just the recipe for you: Keto Fried Rice. This will hit all those fried rice sweet spots without all the carbs. How to Make Keto Fried Rice You make cauliflower fried rice almost exactly the way you would traditional fried rice....

These Slow Cooker Tri-Tip Sandwiches are made with fall-apart tender tri-tip on toasty bread and topped with cheese and sweet, tangy BBQ sauce. Tri-tip is a great cut of meat, and when you make it in the slow cooker, it comes out fabulously tender and perfect for making into sandwiches. It’s also incredibly simple to make. In the morning, you just rub your tri-tip with seasoning salt and then let the tri-tip hang out in your crockpot on low for 8 hours....