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Chocolate Pudding Recipe, Dessert & Pudding Recipes - Hot Choc Fondant Puddings. Chewy Chocolate Ginger-Spice Cookies. Sometimes a night in with friends is what you need.

Chewy Chocolate Ginger-Spice Cookies

Ideally, these sorts of gatherings should involve a plethora of mini sandwiches and spiked libations…maybe even a little illicit cross-stich art for good measure. Hopefully, a kitchen dance party will erupt, followed by girl-talk, then more dancing. Sometimes that is exactly what you need to remind you that good times are to be had…even if you go to bed with the threat of a headache and need an evening nap the next day, it’s still a breath of fresh air and totally worth it. One-Pot Tomato, Basil, + Chicken Pasta. Y’all know I love pasta, + I especially love a pasta dish that’s as quick + easy to make as it is delicious.

One-Pot Tomato, Basil, + Chicken Pasta

I’d been seeing a One-Pot Tomato Basil Pasta coming across pinterest + facebook a lot recently, + I decided to give it a try with a few changes of my own. In this recipe, rather than boil the pasta separately like you do with most pasta dishes, you cook it in the pot with the broth, tomatoes, + herbs. Baked Chicken and Spinach Flautas - Life In The Lofthouse. Cinco de Mayo is this coming Saturday, so I thought I would share some Mexican inspired recipes this week.

Baked Chicken and Spinach Flautas - Life In The Lofthouse

To those of you who celebrate Cinco de Mayo, I hope these delicious recipes will give you some ideas for your celebration! Flautas are one of my very favorite Mexican dishes. Mexican Rice - Life In The Lofthouse. Grilled Chicken Stuffed Burritos and Creamy Cilantro-Ranch dressing - Life In The Lofthouse. Yes, I am giving you another Mexican recipe.

Grilled Chicken Stuffed Burritos and Creamy Cilantro-Ranch dressing - Life In The Lofthouse

I am in-love, obsessed, and will never get enough of my beloved Mexican food. I took a walk on the healthier side with these burritos, and they turned out phenomenal! I grilled up some chicken with a little bit of seasonings, and made our favorite mexican rice to stuff inside as well. I also added refried beans, chopped tomato and lettuce and wrapped it all inside a whole wheat tortilla. Yogurt-spiced chicken with almond & coriander rice. Braided Cinnamon Wreath. Food By TotallyLoveIt | This gorgeous piece of baking magic is a Braided Cinnamon Roll, otherwise known as an Estonian Kringel.

Braided Cinnamon Wreath

While this may look intimidating, Just Love Cookin, has broken down this recipe into easy to follow steps with a pic tutorial. Can’t wait to try this out tomorrow morning! 2 cups flour1/2 tsp salt1/2 cup lukewarm milk1 envelope active dry yeast1/8 cup melted butter1 egg yolk1 tbsp sugar 1/4 cup softened butter4-5 tbsp sugar3 tsp cinnamon. Quick Moroccan Chicken Thighs Over Couscous. There has not been a lot of cooking in my kitchen these past two weeks.

Quick Moroccan Chicken Thighs Over Couscous

We were in house “staging” mode for one week, and then house-selling mode for the second week, and by decree of my real estate agent (bless him), there was to be nothing smelly, nothing backsplash-staining, nothing fridge-grossening until the house was sold. And so we subsisted on a combination of restaurant meals, take-out pizza, sandwiches and ravioli. And vacuumed, bought flowers, dusted and made our beds–a lot. Lucky for us, we signed a deal on Monday, five days after the house went onto the market. Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes. It happened again.

Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes

I had one of my cupcake visions. And I couldn’t shake it. Bake sale week: raspberry lemonade bars. I know this seems like a bit of a cop out, seeing as last year I made those lime bars, but the name of these just makes you want one, doesn’t it?

bake sale week: raspberry lemonade bars

It’s like one last throw back to the summertime captured in a cookie. raspberry lemonade bars for the crust: 9 tablespoons unsalted butter (1 stick, plus one tablespoon) 1/4 cup (50g) superfine sugar (or regular granulated) 1 cup (100g) of unbleached all-purpose flour pinch salt for the filling: 1 1/2 cups (287g) superfine sugar (or regular granulated) 3 egg whites 1 egg 2/3 cup (150mL) freshly squeezed lemon juice (from 3 lemons) 2 tablespoons lemon zest (from 2 lemons) 2/3 cup (65g) unbleached, all-purpose flour pinch of salt 1-2 cups (150-275g) of frozen raspberries, defrosted 1 tablespoon confectioner’s sugar 1.

Broccoli Bites for Kids. File this under the Onion Soup Mix Recipe category, though there is no Lipton onion soup mix in site.

Broccoli Bites for Kids

I may even serve these at my next dinner party, they were that good! While babysitting for my 6 year old picky eater niece, I had to come up with a good lunch that would be fun for the two of us to make together. She is not a big broccoli fan (or any vegetable fan), but I told her we would add melted gooey cheese and form the patties with our hands. She was sold. Please don't laugh when you read this recipe, it is terrific and easy. Vermicelli Noodle Salad - Dirty Gourmet. Vermicelli Noodle Salad 2 Comments » | Posted by Mai-yan on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 Here is the recipe for the Vermicelli Noodle Salad that went with the Asian Wraps we posted last week.

Vermicelli Noodle Salad - Dirty Gourmet

It was adapted from Guy Fieri’s Dang Cold Asian Noodle Salad. This salad is great extra cold and on its own as a light meal on a hot day, though we did put it inside our wraps when we were starving. Sunday Brunch recipe: Billionaire's shortbread. Take-Out, Fake-Out: Sweet & Sour Chicken. It’s easy to make the popular take out sweet & sour chicken at home We made it to Friday! Finally. Braided Spaghetti Bread » The official blog of America's favorite frozen dough. We are carb lovers at our house, so when I saw the Braided Spaghetti Bread recipe in the Rhodes Home Baked Family Favorites with frozen dough cookbook I knew we would love it. This is a really simple recipe; it just takes a little planning for thawing the dough. It will take 2-3 hours for the bread loaf to thaw to room temperature or 1-2 hours for the rolls to thaw to room temperature. You will need: 1 Loaf Rhodes Bread Dough or 12 Rhodes Dinner Rolls, thawed to room temperature6 oz spaghetti, cooked 1 cup thick spaghetti sauce 8 oz mozzarella cheese, cut into 1/2 –inch cubes 1 egg white Parmesan cheese Parsley flakes.

Thai Coconut & Peanut Butter Curry. The best thing to come from my kitchen this weekend was not a dessert. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Peanut Butter Cups. Soooooo… you know that episode of Sex and the City where Miranda has to dump dish soap on top of chocolate cake just so she will stop eating it?? Uh. Yeeeeeah. These are like… of that caliber. And that totally almost happened to me. You PROBably should not make these if you are home alone for four days. Broccoli Cheese Soup: Panera Bread Copycat Recipe. Lasagna Soup. Lasagna Soup This Lasagna Soup is truly like lasagna in a bowl. The flavors are lovely. And the ooey gooey cheesy concoction at the bottom of the bowl is YUM!

Crock Pot Honey Sesame Chicken. Double Fudge Chocolate Chip Cookies. Vanilla Latte Cookies. In the mood for cookies? White Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies. Cinnamon Sugar Pull-Apart Bread. Looks yummy, right? And let me tell you, this cinnamon bread really is yummy! The Ultimate Strawberry Lemonade. Rustic Potato and Caramelized Onion Tart. A brownie by any other name… Love brownies. Love their shiny, flaky top that shatters into micro-thin shards that shower onto your fingers as you eat. Love their dark, gooey center. Their “chocolate nirvana” flavor. Sometimes can’t deal with the bake, wait to cool, cutting into squares messiness and fuss of brownies.

Want something I can enjoy within 5 minutes of its exit from the oven. How To Make Perfect Brownies. I’ve tried lots of brownie recipes: Boxes, scratch, frosted, plain, nuts, chips, fudge … Each of them has something to like, but depending on my mood I might want a change of pace. Not any more. Peanut Turtle Blondies. APPLE A DAY: BEST-EVER Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies.