PIN THIS RECIPE FOR LATER So when my baby girl was 10 weeks old I made my first real outing with both kids. I mean, I’d ventured out with both girls to visit the school, and to my parent’s house, and such, but never out, for a few hours, to places involving shopping carts and shelves full of brightly colored packaging at my toddler’s eye level. Sometimes I swear I still think like a single person....

If you love Italian sausage, try my Italian Sausage Soup recipe, this Creamy Italian Sausage Pasta or my Sausage Orzo Soup next! If you don’t regularly cook with gnocchi, then it’s time to start! Whether it’s Gnocchi with Sausage, Spinach, and Tomatoes, Chicken Gnocchi Soup, Italian Sausage Gnocchi Skillet, or this Baked Gnocchi with Sausage, you might find yourself going for that bag more often. Gnocchi are little pillowy bites of deliciousness, generally thought of as pasta but made with mashed potatoes (or sometimes ricotta) plus flour instead of just four....

What is Chicken Cacciatore? Chicken cacciatore is Italian dish made of chicken and peppers cooked in a rich tomato and caper sauce. Cacciatore is ‘hunter’ in Italian, so this dish is a ‘hunter’s stew’ of sorts. Why you will love this Chicken Cacciatore Recipe Any time protein is seared over high heat and finished in a warm oven with a sauce, good things happen. If that meat also happens to be on the bone and still have the skin attached–even better!...

Have you ever wondered how some people absolutely nail their roast chicken every. single. time?! I’ll let you in on a little secret. They’re probably using chicken brine. Seriously. Believe it or not, brining a chicken before you cook it could be the difference between a dry, flavorless roast chicken and a moist, tender, deliciously flavorful one. This Chicken Brine recipe takes 10 minutes to whip up and is guaranteed to take your Roast Chicken to a whole new level....

See the step by step recipe video down in the recipe card. This post is generously sponsored by The Little Potato Company and I have been compensated for my time in creating this recipe. Thank you for supporting that brands that make The Recipe Rebel possible! While the weather is warming slightly and we’re all looking forward to summer, there is nothing as nourishing after a long day as a bowl of classic beef stew with some crusty bread for dunking....

It’s no secret that we love breakfast food around here, regardless what time of the day it is! This Crockpot French toast is an easy slow cooker breakfast recipe that’s perfect for a lazy Sunday brunch, or a holiday breakfast buffet around Christmas or Thanksgiving. It’s so easy (it has just SIX ingredients!), and you can top it any way you like. Greek yogurt and fresh fruit. Warm maple syrup....

This Beignets Recipe may be life-changing. I’m just going to say it: this is the best recipe to ever come out of my kitchen. Apologies for being so demonstrative, but I’m still on a powdered sugar high. I am an absolute beignet lover. I grew up in Texas, so the box mix of Cafe du Monde beignets was common on our HEB store shelves. We bought and made the box mix often in college....

So if I am being totally honest with you guys, I hadn’t tried Shakshuka before 2019. Ya! IT took me THAT long to try a Mediterranean dish living in the Middle East. How ironic is that! But when I did, I went super crazy and went to all the restaurants I could find here to try their version of Shakshuka. A traditional Shakshuka is basically a North African/Middle Eastern one skillet dish, that has a spicy tomato stew with poached eggs in it....

I have a handful of baking idols, and let me tell you: Stella Parks is one of them. Stella was named by Food & Wine as one of America’s Best New Pastry Chefs and is the pastry wizard at Serious Eats. You probably also know her as BraveTart. I started reading her blog BraveTart shortly after I first started blogging. She takes a completely no-nonese guide to baking (especially with her macaron manifesto), and I dig a girl that makes absolutely everything from scratch, even her sprinkles....

Hot chocolate is a food group in my house right now. We’ve been making it so many different ways lately, and I wanted to capture all of the recipes for Camille. Just so you know, Camille fully approves of all of these flavors except the matcha…I don’t give my kid caffeine and neither should you. Ok, fine fine, she definitely steals sips of my coffee in the mornings but it’s decaf, so....

Serve it with this Cream Cheese Fruit Dip or this Homeade Whipped Cream! In keeping with my August theme of back to the basics, I’m sharing the easiest way to cut a pineapple today! Fresh pineapple is one of our favorite snacks all on its own, but we love it in so many other things as well. These Hawaiian Chicken Kabobs are always a hit, and this Pineapple Upside Down Cake is the perfect way to end a meal!...

Lets dig right into the basic steps of the recipe. STEP 1 – PREPPING THE BEEF STRIPS The first step is going to be to cut the beef steak into thin strips and marinate it into a mixture of salt, pepper, lemon juice, cornflour, all purpose flour and ice cold water. Ideally, any stir fried beef recipe calls for beef flank steak cuts which are either used for steaks or are also known as undercut beef cut....

Bonus: Perfect for those “breakfast for dinner” kinda days too! Easy step by step khageena Khageena or egg bhurji is one of those very upfront, no-brainer recipes. So even if you aren’t familiar with Indian or Pakistani style of cooking, you will still nail it! Typically prepared in a wok, khageena can also be made in pan. It’s a little heavy on the onions which gives it that texture and bite!...

I see you, buying Halloween candy weeks in advance and thinking you won’t open it if you hide it in the pantry. Put it on the top shelf, babe, you might forget about it. Except that you won’t, because I didn’t forget about mine. I opened my Halloween candy on the second day of October, because I fancy a Kit Kat with my afternoon cup of coffee. I reasoned with myself, saying that the Halloween candy packages technically only contain half of a Kit Kat....

Is there really anything as incredible as lemon desserts? I honestly don’t think I can ever get enough of them. Whether it’s Lemon Blueberry Donuts, No-Bake Lemon Cheesecake, Greek Yogurt Lemon Bundt Cake, Lemon Cheesecake Bars, you name it…I am probably having seconds. Thirds aren’t out of the question. This Lemon Lush is the ultimate lemon dessert. It’s completely made-from-scratch with a buttery shortbread crust, a lemony cream cheese filling, homemade lemon pudding, and whipped cream....

Ever ever. If you follow me on Instagram, you saw how much my daughter enjoyed taste-testing. (My almost-3-year-old that is, and not the 4 month old!) So normally, I will just eat full-on comfort food all year round. Soups, pastas, breads, brownies, cakes, cheesecakes – it doesn’t matter what it is or how hot it is outside. I never really knew what my “style” of cooking was until I started a blog....

I love using my crockpot year round to whip up one of these easy Crockpot Meals — they make busy weekdays with three kids more manageable! I know we all love these Dump and Go Slow Cooker Recipes because we can throw it all in and hit the road! But I wanted to come back and show a few more of my favorite crockpot recipes, because even though some have a little prep required, it can usually be done the night before or even prepped and stashed in the freezer for easy mornings and more delicious, home cooked dinners....

We love pork tenderloin around here — it’s easy to cook and comes together quickly! We’ll be using honey and garlic in this marinade for pork tenderloin (one of my favorite combinations!). I’ve used the combination before with my Honey Garlic Pork Tenderloin Recipe (and this Slow Cooker Pork Tenderloin here!), but this time we add in some sweet and spicy notes. Pork Tenderloin is considered one of the best cuts because it is so tender, but it is easier to cook than you think!...

If you’ve ever made pumpkin cookies before, you will know that most of the time, they come out too soft. I’m not looking for a soft, muffin-like fluffy cookie. I want a cookie with a crisp edge and a chewy center. It should still have the texture of a regular chocolate chippers cookie, even though it has pumpkin puree and pumpkin spice in it! This recipe for pumpkin white chocolate chip cookies has the classic cookie texture, even though it has canned pumpkin in it....

We moved recently (again, yes, I know), but this is a final move for us. If you’ve been around here for a while, I started my blog in 2010 while living in northern California. I was fresh out of graduate school and needed a hobby, so I decided to share small batch desserts with you on the internet. Strange how, from that little decision, so much has come. Eventually, work moved us all around (even back to my hometown of Dallas for a few years), but we have officially settled in southern California....