FavoritePinShare This Meatloaf is tender, juicy and packed with flavor. It’s the perfect easy, affordable comfort food! With a balsamic brown sugar glaze it is hands down the best meatloaf ever. When you serve a delectable dish like meatloaf, what you serve with it is almost just as important. So that means the classics, Dad’s Famous Mashed Potatoes, Garlic Butter String Beans and Copycat Texas Roadhouse Rolls! Now that’s what I call dinner!...

I find fried eggplant so tasty and so satisfying that I feel like I could it every other day. Yesterday, I made fried eggplant with rice and tomatoes for lunch and served it without any meat whatsoever. It was so delicious and, importantly, so satisfying that I didn’t feel like I needed any meat. This fried eggplant dish is typical of Georgia (country) and has that native Mediterranean flavor to it, the flavor of roasted vegetables and olive oil....

FavoritePinShare Delicious and easy funfetti cake batter blondies that the entire family will love! It has been so gloomy here in Utah and the inversion is so bad! What better way to brighten up your day than with some sprinkles? 🙂 I’m surprised that these even showed up for the photo shoot. They were gooey on the inside and had such a yummy cake batter flavor. I could hardly resist eating them as soon as they came out of the oven....

FavoritePinShare Funfetti Cheesecake Pudding cookies are some of the best tasting and best looking cookies you’ll ever have! Made with pudding mix, these are soft, chewy and oh so delicious! Funfetti is just fun, it makes everything so colorful and tasty! Try these other Funfetti recipes, Popcorn, Blondies and Cheesecake Bars. Funfetti Cheesecake Pudding Cookies My mom made cookies for the family last week and she made this recipe! It has been years since I have made it and it has totally gotten buried....

FavoritePinShare Garlic Butter Herb Steak Bites with Potatoes are such a simple meal that is full of tender garlic herb melt in your mouth steak with potatoes. This is a meal that the entire family will love! We love steak at house Brown Sugar Garlic Flank Steak, Grilled Steak Fajita Skewers, and Creamy Garlic Steak Bites with Mushrooms are some of our favorite steak recipes on the blog. Garlic Butter Herb Steak Bites with Potatoes My ten year old steak loving son is always begging for steak every single week....

This steak bites recipe is the ultimate all-in-one dinner that everyone will love! I’ll show you how to make steak bites with garlic butter, which you can certainly serve on their own (or as a steak appetizer), but I like to make them into a one-pan meal by adding zucchini noodles. The combination is easy, healthy, and simple: garlic butter steak bites with lemon zucchini noodles blend tender pieces of meat with a flavorful veggie pasta, all in one pan....

FavoritePinShare Grilled BBQ Chicken Tacos topped with black beans, corn, tomatoes and avocado with a creamy cilantro lime sauce. This easy and healthy meal will become a family favorite! Hey everyone, this is Lauren visiting from Tastes Better from Scratch, where I share easy homemade meals made with real ingredients. I’m the mother of three young kids, and like so many moms out there I feel like I’m constantly needing quick, family-friendly dinner ideas to feed my crew....

FavoritePinShare Grilled Spicy Blackened Salmon Tacos are grilled to perfection with a delicious spicy crust. They get topped with a fresh grilled pineapple avocado salsa. These tacos are fresh and light and the flavors are out of this world! This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Salmon Council. The opinions and text are all mine. Oh my goodness have I got a taco recipe for you today!...

This simple homemade ground turkey soup recipe combines tender meat with lots of fresh produce and pantry staples for a comforting, cozy meal. Ground turkey vegetable soup has a similar flavor to my stuffed pepper soup and perfect for customizing with your favorite veggies, broth and seasonings. Best of all? Soup with ground turkey cooks fast and stores well! Instead of using precooked turkey like my leftover turkey soup, this is the perfect healthy soup recipe when you have ground meat in the fridge to use up....

This version is made with speculoos cookies, but you can substitute any cookie you’d like. It works great with oreos, gingersnap, chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies and even shortbread! An easy cookie butter recipe to make at home! Have you ever bought a jar of cookie butter and, after a few trips to the kitchen for a taste or two, discovered that you ate the whole thing in less than a day?...

FavoritePinShare Get ready for the best tahini sauce that you have ever tasted! This makes any falafel, vegetable or salad taste better and it takes less than 5 minutes to put it all together! I love a good sauce. They elevate any meal and not only add a delicious flavor but a creamy texture. Try out some of my other favorite sauces like this homemade alfredo sauce, this easy easy BBQ sauce, or this amazing garlic aioli sauce....

FavoritePinShare Making homemade French bread is a game-changer! Golden on the outside and supremely soft and tender on the inside, it will complement any meal perfectly! I love making bread at home because it’s so fresh, delicious, and free of preservatives. Homemade sourdough, challah, and this French baguette are a few more tasty bread recipes to add to your baking lineup. Delicious Homemade French Bread Recipe There are few things in life better than a freshly-baked loaf of bread....

(This post is sponsored by my friends at Carolina® Rice. All opinions are my own.) Looking for more refreshing summer drinks? I recommend you also check out my Mango Lassi, Pineapple Mint Juice, Dulce de Leche Frappuccino and Brazilian Lemonade. Oh, Horchata, where have you been all my life? It was only after moving to the U.S. that I tried it for the first time, as it is not popular in Brazil....

FavoritePinShare Strawberries are what I love! This frozen strawberry lemonade is just as good and gives another way of cooling down this summer. Fresh ingredients that is kid approved and loved by all! Homemade Strawberry Lemonade I don’t know what it is about me and strawberries, but I am obsessed! I made a special trip to Costco just to get their amazing strawberries. I love buying strawberries when they are in season and perfectly ripe and juicy....

FavoritePinShare These Thin Mints are way better than the popular boxed version! Perfectly crispy chocolaty cookies are sweetened with just the right amount of mint! Cookies are the perfect answer to a sweet craving. You have to try these popular recipes the next time you need a cookie, Danish Butter Cookies, Italian Cookies and these amazing Cream Cheese Snickerdoodles. Easy Thin Mints No longer do you have to wait for that one special time of year when the Girl Scouts come around to sell their cookies....

FavoritePinShare A delicious honey balsamic glaze that makes this salmon incredible! We live a few blocks away from our neighborhood Immigration Market. It is so fun to take family walks there and get their famous gelato and snow cones. It is also nice when I run out of something for a recipe and need to make a quick trip to the store. But they have the best meats I have ever had....

What is your favorite food in the world? Mine is eggs (and adding a little oven baked bacon or even air fryer bacon doesn’t hurt!). There are so many delicious ways to enjoy them, and perfect hard boiled eggs are one of my favorite ways. Today, I want to show you how to boil eggs perfectly every time – and how to peel boiled eggs easily, too! Boiled eggs were one of the first foods I learned to make as a kid....

Simple tutorials are one of my favorite things here at Wholesome Yum, and today I want to show you the one I use multiple times a week: how to cook bacon in the oven! I’ve been baking bacon this way for years, and while it’s super simple, I have a few tips and tricks to share, so that you get perfect oven baked bacon that comes out crispy every time....

Who doesn’t love gnocchi? These delicious soft potato dumplings that go with pretty much any sauce you can think of. When made right, it is like biting into little pillows of heaven. But wait a second… “When made right”? That right there is the reason most people are intimidated by making gnocchi – or any homemade pasta, really – at home. Of course, some knowledge and technique go a long way and help you make pretty decent gnocchi, but the whole “making gnocchi at home is difficult” state of mind drives me nuts!...

Reheating the pasta can dry it out even further. But there are a few tips and tricks that will restore your mac and cheese to its former glory. Making it just as rich and creamy as the day you made it. If you have leftover mac and cheese, here’s how to reheat it without drying it out. Below, you’ll find step-by-step instructions for every variety of this classic comfort food....