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Easy Chicken Tortilla Soup Recipe This easy chicken tortilla soup recipe is ready in about 30 minutes.  There is nothing better than a soup recipe that comes together mostly with pantry ingredients you already have in your pantry.  Fire roasted tomatoes, jarred salsa, pinto beans, hominy, corn and chicken broth do most of the heavy lifting. My trick is blending the fire roasted tomatoes, salsa...

Zucchini Dark Chocolate Chip Muffins I know, not another muffin recipe on my blog!  But I can’t help myself.  These zucchini dark chocolate chip muffins are to die for.  Perfectly sweet, love the slight bitterness of the dark chocolate with the streusel topping?  Perfection. Don’t ask me what the Weight Watchers points are, because I don’t even want to know.  That being said, I can...

Apple Waffle Dippers As soon as I saw these apple waffle dippers on Feeding Tiny Bellies Instagram, I knew I had to make them.  While our waffle recipes are similar, below is my adaptation of her recipe.  Thanks for the inspo!  After watching her video, Hannah and I determined that we loved these apple waffle dippers reheated in the air fryer.  While the dippers are...

Dutch Apple Bread A cozy, old-fashioned dutch apple bread with a tender crumb and plenty of apple flavor. Why You’ll Love This Recipe It’s moist, tender and full of apple flavor Easy to make with everyday baking ingredients Perfect for breakfast, an afternoon snack or sharing A nostolgic recipe inspired by vintage baking This recipe was adapted from a cookbook called A World of Breads...

Pork Shoulder Burnt Ends If cooking a whole pork shoulder is intimidating for you, try this pork shoulder burnt ends recipe.  I recently saw a video on Instagram where a creator Alonzo (Gulf Coast Smoke) and I never really thought of using pork shoulder to make burnt ends.  Typically pork shoulder is a relatively inexpensive cut of meat.  Mariano’s usually has it on sale every...

Homemade Beef and Zucchini Meatballs These homemade Beef and Zucchini Meatballs are one of those recipes you’ll want to keep in your back pocket. They’re tender, flavorful, easy to make, and the zucchini helps keep them moist without making the meatballs taste like vegetables. We’re using 93/7 ground beef, so we added a little chopped pepperoni to bring in extra flavor and richness. The combination...

Blueberry Zucchini Muffins I know, I know!  Another muffin recipe.  There are probably 50 on this website already, but I am going to say that to date, these blueberry zucchini muffins are my favorite.  That pop of sweetness of the blueberries, the zucchini keeps the muffins light and moist, and the lime zest sugar topping is out of this world. Why You’ll Love These Muffins...

Light and Airy Bagels When I think of bagels, I want them to be light and airy bagels.  For some reason my most recent bagel purchases whether that is at a farmers market or bakery, end up being quite dense.  When I saw Baked by Laora make what looked to be light and airy bagels, I knew I had to try to make them.  My...

Eastern North Carolina BBQ Pork My parents were from Virginia originally, and since moving to Chicago in 1964 after what they thought was going to be two years for my Dad’s job, well, they just never left.  While I wonder what our lives what have looked like if they had stayed in Virginia, I have lifelong memories of visiting every single year.  This Instant Pot...

Grammy’s Zucchini Bread My grammy’s zucchini bread is a core food memory for me.  That and sliced cantaloupe will always bring me right back to my grammy’s kitchen in the summer.  The reason her bread was so delicious is because it had two whole cups of sugar and nearly one cup of oil.  I hope you find that this zucchini bread recipe is just as...