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This easy blueberry muffin recipe is our most popular for a reason! It’s quick to make and yields muffins with a moist, tender center bursting with blueberries and a perfectly golden-brown top. This recipe makes eight large, big-topped muffins, ten standard muffins, or 20 to 22 mini muffins. When measuring the flour for these muffins, either weigh it or use the “spoon and level” method: Fluff the flour, spoon it into the measuring cup, and level off the top with a flat edge.
This easy pasta salad recipe is flexible based on the ingredients you have in your kitchen or the season. Start with a hearty pasta shape with nooks and crannies to hold onto the dressing like rotini or penne. Then toss with our simple dressing and lots of colorful vegetables. We also love adding a handful of fresh mozzarella balls and parmesan cheese, which melts into the dressing.
Skip the store-bought jar and make this salsa from scratch instead. This recipe takes less than 15 minutes to make, is adaptable to your desired spice level, and lasts a week in the fridge. For recipe variations, see our article above. The recipe below can be used with fresh or canned tomatoes. When using canned tomatoes, we love fire-roasted tomatoes, which add a bit of smokiness to the salsa.
My homemade gravy recipe is quick and easy. If you’ve roasted chicken, turkey, or beef, use the drippings left in the roasting pan. They make the gravy extra flavorful and seasoned. You can also make gravy without drippings and put stock or broth in its place. Store-bought stock is usually underseasoned. Take care when seasoning with salt and pepper towards the end of the recipe. Finally, for more flavor, whisk in mushroom powder. This is optional but adds a deep, savory flavor.
Inspired by authentic enchilada sauce, our recipe combines dried chilies, garlic, onion, and spices to make a rich, flavorful sauce perfect for enchiladas. Many dried chilies will work in this homemade enchilada sauce. We love the combination of guajillo and ancho chilies. Guajillo chilies have a natural smokiness and are moderately hot, while ancho chilies are mild and have a fruity, chocolate-like aroma. When combined, the enchilada sauce tastes rich and savory with just a hint of spice. Add one or two hotter chilies like New Mexico or Cascabel for a spicier sauce. You can also make the sauce spicier by adding a pinch of cayenne pepper.
Make this guilt-free zucchini noodles salad in 20 minutes! The yogurt-based dressing has just the right amount of kick from garlic, feta cheese, lemon and Sriracha hot sauce. The salad is perfect to eat straight away or made in advance.
There are two ways to make lobster mac and cheese: with or without lobster meat. In both cases, you’ll use the lobster shells to create the signature lobster flavor in the sauce. We’ll guide you through each step, from humanely dispatching and cooking live lobsters to making the rich lobster cheese sauce. Then, you can decide whether to fold the cooked lobster meat into your mac and cheese or enjoy it separately (it’s fantastic with melted butter or in lobster rolls!). The lobster bodies (the main shells with the head and tiny legs attached) release a rich, savory lobster flavor into the sauce, making them essential for this recipe.
These baked wonton cups are the perfect blank canvas for your favorite flavors! To ensure you have enough cups for all your delicious fillings, bake a few extra wonton wrappers. Some may close up during baking, so it’s always good to have a few spares.
We love this mashed chickpea salad, which we spread onto sandwiches and wraps, and we love to serve a big spoonful on top of salads. If you don’t have chickpeas on hand, other beans like cannellini beans, Great Northern, and fava beans are great!
This easy homemade teriyaki chicken recipe rivals my favorite teriyaki restaurants. The chicken is best when marinated for a while, but you can get away with a shorter marinating period if you’re short on time. In our recipe, we’ve shared the ingredients to make one batch of teriyaki sauce, perfect for 1 ½ pounds of chicken. We highly recommend making a larger batch of sauce (it’s that good). You can find the instructions for a larger batch in our teriyaki sauce recipe, which makes 2 cups and provides enough sauce for two batches of chicken.
You will love this quick and easy honey teriyaki chicken! The sauce is so simple and comes together in minutes. Plus, since we cut the chicken into pieces, it cooks quickly, so you can have dinner ready in no time!
This is my favorite recipe for beer bread. It’s no-knead and so easy to make. I love the golden-brown and buttery crust and the soft, tight crumb inside. Serve this bread with butter, honey, honey butter, apple butter, pumpkin butter, soups, stews, or as an appetizer with cheese.
This spinach artichoke dip is unbelievably creamy. It’s incredibly delicious. We love serving alongside vegetables, pita wedges, bread, or chips. For the best results, serve this hot.
This easy chicken vegetable soup recipe has lots of veggies and chicken, making it perfectly hearty. Use about 2 cups of cooked chicken or follow our directions for cooking chicken from scratch. The soup is also delicious without the chicken added.
Plain Greek yogurt is the secret to this Greek chicken marinade recipe! Yogurt helps the marinade coat the chicken and makes it tender and juicy. I’ve used this marinade after just one hour and been really happy, but if you can wait a few more hours, the flavors deepen even further. (I’ve even left chicken marinating overnight before, and it was still delicious!) If you go past 8 hours, the lemon juice and vinegar might start to firm up the outside of the chicken a bit (it’s still delicious, though). Makes enough for up 2 pounds chicken
Steel cut oats are whole oat groats cut into small bits (instead of rolled into flat discs like with rolled oats). They take slightly longer to cook than other oat varieties but are delicious. When cooked, steel cut oats have a creamy, chewy texture. We love them topped with fruit and nut butter, but take a look at our article above for topping suggestions. For a quicker cooking time, consider soaking the oats in water the night before you plan to make them. Soaking them will reduce the cooking time by about half.
