Blondies Recipe

These blondies are soft, chewy, and filled with rich, buttery vanilla flavor. Made in one bowl with no mixer, this recipe is easy and delicious!

These blondies are chewy, fudgy, and filled with butterscotch flavor. The recipe is one of my favorite easy treats because it comes together in one bowl, calls for 8 simple ingredients, and doesn’t require a mixer. Whenever I’m craving something sweet, I can whip these up in no time. In case you’re not familiar, blondies are essentially blonde brownies—chewy dessert bars without chocolate in the batter. Instead, these taste rich and buttery, sort of like the dough of chocolate chip cookies. Brown butter, brown sugar, and a generous splash of vanilla create their delicious flavor. I also like to add…

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How To Brown Butter

What's better than regular butter? Brown butter! Its toasty, nutty flavor adds delicious depth to baked goods. Learn how to make it with this simple guide!

Learn how to brown butter! I’m always a fan of simplicity when it comes to baking. But for the right recipe, even I will admit that pulling out an extra pan and taking a few minutes to brown butter is worth it. Brown butter has a rich, nutty scent and toasty flavor—think butterscotch. When you add it to baked goods like chocolate chip cookies and blondies, it packs in all that toasty, nutty goodness, making your treats taste extra-delicious and complex. Browning butter intimidated me for years, but with the right equipment (a light-colored pan is KEY!), it’s actually super easy.…

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Dutch Baby

This Dutch baby recipe starts with a simple batter that's easy to make in the blender. It bakes into a big, puffy, golden brown pancake in the oven!

This Dutch baby pancake is for you if 1) you love popovers, 2) you love crepes, and/or 3) you want making brunch to be as easy as possible. This recipe couldn’t be simpler! Unlike stovetop pancakes, a Dutch baby bakes in a hot skillet in the oven. As it cooks, its eggy batter puffs up (think popovers) and turns a gorgeous golden brown. The custardy slices taste a lot like crepes, and they’re a delicious vehicle for toppings like fresh fruit. I shared a raspberry lemon Dutch baby recipe in my first cookbook, but I’ve never shared one here. With…

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Easy Scones

Learn how to make perfect scones! My recipe is easy to customize with your favorite add-ins, and it yields buttery, flaky, flavorful scones every time.

The best scones are buttery, flaky, and moist inside. They’re crisp and crumbly around the edges, perfect for pairing with a cup of coffee or tea. Scones can get a bad rap for being bland or dry (my husband Jack swore he didn’t like them for years), but when they’re prepared well, they shouldn’t be either of those things. I’m sharing my favorite scone recipe below. It’s easy to make with 10 basic ingredients, and you can customize it with your favorite sweet or savory mix-ins. No matter which ones you pick, it yields tender, flavorful, bakery-worthy scones every time.…

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Margarita Recipe

This margarita recipe is easy to make with 4 ingredients! Tart and refreshing, this classic cocktail is one of my all-time favorite drinks.

cocktail

Learn how to make a margarita! This classic cocktail is easy to make with 4 ingredients: tequila, lime juice, orange liqueur, and agave (or simple syrup). If you have them on hand, you can mix up this margarita recipe in under 5 minutes! A margarita is one of the most popular cocktails in the world. Where I live in Austin, Texas, it is the most popular cocktail, period. I can’t tell you how many I’ve sipped on patios of various restaurants around town. But I still have a soft spot for a homemade margarita. I love that I’m completely in control of…

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Easy Tostadas

This easy tostada recipe is a fast, fresh dinner! I pile crispy tortillas with flavorful toppings like refried beans, avocado, veggies, and cheese.

This tostada recipe is a fun, fresh, and FAST weeknight dinner. Just load up crunchy tostadas with toppings like refried beans, crisp lettuce and cabbage, tomatoes, cheese, and avocado. Squeeze with lime juice, and dig in! This recipe has become a great family meal for us lately…because it’s not a true “recipe” at all. It’s more of a suggestion—the toppings here are flexible, and in our house, everyone chooses their own. I take my tostadas with extra avocado and spicy peppers, Jack skips the avocado and piles on extra cheese, and Ollie goes for whatever he’s in the mood for that…

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Pickled Serrano Peppers

Love spicy food? These pickled serrano peppers are for you! I like making them to add a pop of tangy, spicy flavor to tacos, nachos, and more.

Move over, jalapeños! Serrano peppers are my current chile obsession for one simple reason: they’re spicier. Serrano vs. Jalapeño Peppers On the Scoville Scale, the official system for measuring the pungency of peppers, serrano peppers score higher than jalapeños. They clock in at 10,000 to 23,000 SHU (Scoville Heat Units) versus jalapeños’ Scoville rating of 2,500 to 8,000. That’s 3 to 4 times hotter! But lately, I’ve felt like the difference in heat level between jalapeño and serrano peppers is even greater than that. I think the jalapeños at my grocery store are tasting more and more like green bell…

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Grilled Asparagus

This grilled asparagus recipe is my favorite spring and summer side dish. Simply seasoned with olive oil, salt, and pepper, it's fresh and delicious.

spring / side dishes

Grilled asparagus is the best spring and summer side dish! It’s tender, juicy, and lightly charred, and it cooks in minutes on the grill. Seasoned simply with olive oil, salt, pepper, and maybe a squeeze of lemon juice, it pairs perfectly with almost any meal. Below, you’ll find my easy method for cooking asparagus on the grill, along with my favorite ways to serve it. Even if you’re an asparagus skeptic, I hope you’ll try this recipe. My husband Jack used to claim he hated asparagus, but once he tried it grilled, he became a convert. Who knows? You might…

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Strawberry Spinach Salad

This strawberry spinach salad is filled with pecans, feta, and a tangy poppy seed dressing. Perfect for spring or summer, it's simple and fresh.

This strawberry spinach salad is perfect for spring and early summer. It starts with a base of fresh spinach—one of the first vegetables to appear at my farmers market each spring—and is topped off with juicy strawberries, crisp red onion, toasty pecans, and salty feta cheese. My sweet and tangy poppy seed dressing ties it all together. I think it’s fair to say that this combination is pretty classic (doesn’t Panera have a strawberry poppyseed salad on its menu?), but I still wanted to share this recipe because it’s so simple and fresh, with a wonderful pop of sweetness and color…

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Poppy Seed Dressing

This poppy seed dressing recipe is easy to make with 6 ingredients. Lightly creamy, sweet, and tangy, it's delicious on green salads, slaws, and more!

I can already tell that this poppy seed dressing is going to be the star of my spring and summer salad dressing rotation. It’s lightly creamy, sweet, and tangy, perfect for adding a pop of bright flavor to green salads, slaws, and more. I first started making it to use on my strawberry spinach salad, but once I had it in my fridge, I found that it went well on SO many different combinations of fruits and veggies. This poppy seed dressing is one to make on repeat. Like all my homemade salad dressings, this poppy seed dressing is easy…

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How to Make Hard Boiled Eggs

Learn how to make hard boiled eggs perfectly every time! With this easy method, they'll be easy to peel and have vibrant yellow yolks.

cooking basics / vegetarian

Here’s the good news: perfect hard boiled eggs are easy to make. …And the bad news: so are less-than-perfect ones. I don’t know about you, but I’ve certainly cooked my fair share of the latter. When you try to peel away the shell, half the whites come along with it, or when you cut it open, the yolk is slightly green instead of brilliant yellow. Pretty disappointing, if you ask me. See, cooking perfect hard boiled eggs is easy, but that doesn’t mean that the process you use doesn’t matter. After years of trial and error, I’m happy to say…

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