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Morning Glory Muffins with Vanilla Cream Cheese Filling

These Morning Glory Muffins are filled with nutritious ingredients like apples, carrots, whole wheat, and dried blueberries. They are a delicious and nutritious way to start your morning. Morning glory muffins are a throw back muffin, kind of like bran muffins, from the "crunchy granola" era of the the 1970s. There are lots of versions of morning glory muffins. Most of the recipes included

Roasted Pepper and Chile Focaccia

This roasted pepper and chile focaccia is light, airy, and amazing, and it is filled with chunks of mozzarella cheese, cherry tomatoes, and topped with roasted sweet peppers and chiles. Topped with the roasted sweet peppers and mild chiles, this focaccia is so versatile. It is delicious for breakfast, for a snack, with a salad or soup for lunch, and with pasta for dinner.... or, it can be a

Peanut Butter Cup Brownies

With their decadent dark chocolate filling, these peanut butter cup brownies are the perfect dessert for chocolate lovers. These peanut butter cup brownies are actually a twist on peanut butter cups, because the outer cookie shell is made with a butter cookie, and the filling is basically flourless peanut butter chocolate cake. Regardless, these little packages of chocolate and peanut butter

Orange Curd Brownies

Deeply fudgy brownies with a swirl of delicious homemade orange curd on top... because chocolate and orange are such a delicious combination of flavors. These orange curd brownies are moist, fudgy, and totally decadent. They are loaded with a full half pound of melted bittersweet chocolate, and just ooze with chocolate-y goodness. If that isn't enough, these brownies are topped with homemade

Cheeseburger Sliders with Homemade Slider Buns

These cheeseburger sliders with homemade slider buns are easy to put together and are perfect to take to a party. These slider burgers have all of the flavors of your favorite burger, including a "secret sauce," but in a smaller size. You can scale the recipe for the beef up or down to make burgers for a crowd, or for smaller groups. Plus, you can make the meat ahead of time... perfect for

Slow Cooker Mahogany Chicken Legs

These slow cooker mahogany chicken legs are braised in a mixture of two kinds of soy sauce, along with spices, vinegar, and rice wine, resulting in a deliciously moist and glistening chicken dish. These Mahogany chicken legs are cooked using the technique called "red cooking" or "red braising."What is red cooking?It's basically slow braising using two kinds of soy sauce, light and dark, along

Lobster Wonton and Corn Chowder

Home made wontons filled with lobster and gently cooked in a delicious fresh corn chowder! Lobster and corn are so delicious together and evoke memories of summer seafood boils. Fortunately, you can make this soup any time of the year if you have access to either fresh or frozen corn on the cob.To Make the Wontons:For this soup, you wrap shredded cooked lobster in wonton or dumpling wrappers with

Coconut Candy Bar Cake

This Coconut Candy Bar Cake is a delicious take on the Hershey's Mounds Bar. The cake is loaded with shredded coconut and coated in dark chocolate, just like the candy bar. The crumb on this cake is probably the most moist I have ever tried. It's packed with shredded coconut, which I'm sure ensures that the cake itself is super fluffy and fresh. The cake is filled with an amazing pecan, brown

Pepperoni Rolls

These pepperoni rolls, pepperoni rolled up into a slightly sweet and enriched dough, are delicious eaten as a snack or an appetizer. These pepperoni rolls are evidently sold in most West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania convenience stores as well as many bakeries and restaurants. There is even a book called the West Virginia Pepperoni Roll by Candace Nelson that tracks the history of the

Peanut Butter and Jelly Blondies

These peanut butter and jelly blondies take your favorite childhood sandwich and turn it into a sweet chewy treat. These peanut butter and jelly blondies include peanut butter in the batter as well as peanut butter and grape jelly swirled on top. These blondies are buttery, sweet, and peanutty! What are blondies? They are referred to as brownies without the chocolate, but they are much more than

Caldo de Pollo + Sopa a la Mexicana (Mexican-Style Chicken Soup)

This Mexican-Style Chicken Soup begins with Caldo de Pollo, a light homemade chicken broth flavored with herbs and aromatics. After you make the broth, you use it to make a light and nutritious chicken soup that includes more chicken, vegetables, and fresh tomatoes that have been run through a sieve to flavor the broth. Finally, you serve the soup with garnishes, including cilantro, avocado, and

Slow Cooker Chicken Pot Pie

This slow cooker chicken pot pie is an easy and almost hands-free way to create chicken pot pie for a crowd. This is an easy and delicious recipe for chicken pot pie for a crowd without having to make a roux or spend much time at the stove.Whole chicken pieces cook in the slow cooker with the filling and are shredded just before adding the crust and baking in the oven. To make this chicken pot

Pan de Elote | Slow Cooker Mexican Cornbread

This Pan de Elote (Mexican Cornbread), made in the slow cooker, is sweet and very moist, and can be served as a snack, side dish, or even a dessert. Pan de elote is super moist, buttery, and sweet, and filled with blended fresh corn along with whole kernels sprinkled throughout. It is usually cooked in a cast iron skillet, but making it in the slow cooker is so much easier. Traditional pan de

Panini al Pomodoro | Italian Tomato Rolls

Panini al Pomodoro are rolls originating in Venice, Italy. They include tomato paste in the dough, plus, they are decorated with tomato paste, along with Italian herbs. These rolls, filled with tomato paste and topped with a dab of more tomato paste and herbs resemble little tomatoes (at least if you squint a bit). The dough begins with a biga, or preferment, which you make a day in advance to

Slow Cooker Italian Sunday Gravy

This slow cooker Italian Sunday gravy is an easy and delicious take on a classic Italian-American dish. This slow cooker Italian Sunday gravy is a rich and hearty tomato sauce enriched with red wine and many different cuts of meat. In fact, it's more like a meat sauce flavored with tomatoes... thus the name "gravy." It's called gravy because the meat totally dominates the ingredients, way more

Baked Eggs with Parmesan and Chives

Baked Eggs with Parmesan and Chives, an easy, tasty, and scaleable recipe for preparing eggs for a crowd, or just one. Baked eggs, why haven't I ever tried them before now? These are so easy to prepare, delicious, and pretty foolproof too. The yolks are cooked to custardy perfection while the egg whites, baked together with the cream and parmesan cheese, remain creamy and have an amazing texture

Chocolate Truffle Cakes with Cappuccino Whipped Cream

These tiny chocolate truffle cakes, topped with cappuccino whipped cream, will satisfy any chocolate lover's craving. These little flourless truffle cakes are dense and moist, and the flavor is intensely chocolate. The perfect foil to balance the intensity of these super fudgy cakes is light and airy sweetened whipped cream, especially if it's flavored with espresso and chocolate. Do you love

Italian Chopped Salad

This Italian chopped salad with salami, prosciutto, and Fontina cheese takes the flavors of a charcuterie platter and turns them into a hearty main dish salad. Serve this Italian chopped salad with radicchio and green leaf lettuce, topped with meats, cheese, olives, pepperoncini, and tossed with an easy vinaigrette of olive oil, sherry vinegar, oregano, and salt and pepper for lunch or a light