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French Palmier Cookies
Palmiers are possibly THE easiest treat to make. I’m calling them cookies, but really they’re a sugared, crisp little pastry. With only two ingredients, puff pastry and sugar, these take just minutes...
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Sweet and Sour Meatballs or Little Smokies
This is one of those little recipes that I just assume everyone knows about. Then I make it for some gathering and inevitably find out that there are people in the world who have never heard of such...
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Tabbouleh
Tabbouleh is a salad with Middle Eastern roots made from bulgar wheat, fresh cucumber and tomato, and lots of parsley! It’s simply dressed with olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper. I like to add a...
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Easy Baked Chicken Parmesan
From-scratch Chicken Parm is an Italian restaurant staple (at least here in the United States) and it’s fun to make at home, as well. But if pounding, dipping, and breading chicken is too much work...
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Big Giant Chocolate Sandwich Cookie (Homemade Oreo!)
This HUGE cookie is an Oreo-lovers dream! Super soft chocolate cookies are sandwiched with your choice of frosting. Buttercream and cream cheese frostings are both delicious favorites! This giant...
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Air Fryer Green Beans
One of my favorite uses for the air fryer is roasted vegetables. Thin green beans, often labeled as Haricot verts or French cut green beans are especially delicious. There’s no pre-steaming or...
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Garlic-Rosemary Roasted Baby Potatoes
This recipe is elegant, super quick and easy, and it’s a great way to use up garden rosemary if you have an abundance. Don’t be intimidated by the sheer amount of garlic and mustard; when you roast...
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Coconut Banana Bread with Lime Glaze
At first thought you might be surprised to see coconut and lime paired with banana bread, but think about that tropical combination of lime, coconut, and banana and you’ll realize it’s a match made in...
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Southwestern Brown Rice Salad
This Southwestern brown rice salad is served cold. It’s loaded with feel-good ingredients like hearty brown rice, extra-virgin olive oil, garlic, and creamy avocado. It’s flavorful but not...
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Smoked Tri Tip Roast
Tri tip is one of my very favorite cuts of beef. It’s perfectly sized for a family dinner, and not overwhelming to cook in both size and effort. it only needs minimal seasoning and a couple hours on...
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Grilled Chicken & Berry Salad
This Grilled Chicken and Berry Salad is sweet, fresh and summery. It’s so simple, full of fresh greens, grilled chicken, strawberries, blueberries, toasted almonds, feta cheese, and a delicious berry...
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Honey Basil Vinaigrette
This Honey Basil Vinaigrette is one of my favorite ways to use up fresh herbs in the garden. It’s packed with herby flavor, and has a subtle sweetness from honey and apple cider vinegar. Though basil...
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The Best BLT Sandwich
Last summer, this video took Instagram by storm. One year later and I’m still getting messages asking for the details of this killer sandwich! There’s a few things that make this BLT better than what...
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Peach Prosciutto Skewers
These easy peach and prosciutto skewers blend a classic combo of flavors with creamy Mozzarella cheese, salty prosciutto and juicy sweet peaches or nectarines. They’re topped with a drizzle of Honey...
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Blueberry Corn Salad with Honey Basil Vinaigrette
I dreamed up this Blueberry Corn salad days before I made it and was so happy when it lived up to the hype I created in my head. I love the combo of fresh greens with pasta. It’s not quite a pasta...
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Lemon-Orzo Salad with Veggies and Chicken
This light and fresh salad is packed with fresh vegetables and bright flavors (hello lemon and dill), and while I love the addition of grilled chicken, you can also make it meatless if you prefer....
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Hot Italian Sandwiches
Loaded hot sandwiches might seem like something you’d only find at a great restaurant and deli, but they’re super doable at home and one of my family’s favorite dinners! This sandwich is made on a...
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Air Fried Butternut Squash
Air fried butternut squash is a great addition to salads, grain bowls, soups, wraps, and more. It’s also delicious served plain on it’s own as a side dish! Using a bag of pre-chopped squash makes this...
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Stovetop Cinnamon Apples
These easy stovetop cinnamon apples are like apple pie filling in a pan! They’re quick to whip up and have so many delightful uses. We love them spooned over ice cream, topped on pancakes and waffles,...
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Creamy Apple Cider Slushy
We love Italian Sodas, and we love Hawaiian style Shave Ice. This recipe is kind of a combination of both! We use our favorite Little Snowie Shave Ice Machine to get perfectly fluffy ice to make a...
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Apple Squash Chop Kale Salad
This salad is full of nutrient-dense ingredients and especially wonderful in the autumn time with the great fall flavors. It’s based on a mix of finely chopped kale and cabbage, which is a great blend...
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DIY Natural Sink Scrub Recipe
This all natural DIY Sink Scrub is easy and inexpensive to make and creates a great sink cleaner and refresher! It’s also great to put down the disposal. The ingredients are baking soda (a natural...
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How to Roast Tri Tip in the Oven
Tri tip is one of my most favorite cuts of meat. If you’ve had tri-tip steak, it’s obviously just this same cut of meat, sliced into steaks! Tri-Tip is sometimes known by other names depending on...
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Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup
This go-to recipe for chicken noodle soup has been a favorite for years, and also hiding in plain sight on Our Best Bites. It’s a very slight riff on the base to this popular Chicken and Dumplings...
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Tortellini Pasta Salad with Ground Mustard Vinaigrette
Tortellini Pasta Salad is easily customizable with endless options for veggie add-ins! This salad starts with cooked tortellini- which you can find fresh, dry, or frozen, incorporates some fresh...
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Swedish Meatballs
These Swedish meatballs are featured in the second Our Best Bites Cookbook, Savoring the Seasons. It’s routinely mentioned as a favorite from readers and I wanted it to have a space on the website so...
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Double Chocolate Waffles With Berry Sauce
Decadent, delicious breakfasts don’t get much better than this! These chocolate waffles are studded with little pieces of chocolate that get warm and melted in the waffle iron. Topped with an easy...
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Brazilian Inspired Recipes
My husband and I both spent time living in different parts of Brazil during our college years doing mission service work for our church. My Father and several other family members did as well, so we...
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Smoked Pulled Ham
Once I started smoking my ham like I’m going to show you in this recipe, I have literally never bought one of those spiral cut hams with the sauce packet, again. Smoked pulled ham might ruin all other...
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Yogurt Parfait Bowls
Chances are when you think of yogurt parfaits, you imagine simple little jars layered with yogurt, berries, and granola. This recipe shows you how to elevate that classic combo into something much...
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Peach and Arugula Farro Salad
I love a salad that combines greens and grain. They’re hearty and filling and make a great one-stop side dish to a meal, and are easy to turn into a main dish as well. This summer salad combines chewy...
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Smoked Paprika Butter
I love compound butters (a compound butter is simply butter, with spices or some type of flavorings, often from herbs or fruits, mixed into it). They’re such an easy way to elevate so many things. We...
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How to Cook Bacon in the Air Fryer
Using an air fryer to cook bacon is perfect when you just need a few slices, and want minimal mess to clean up and hands-off cooking. During the summer months I love making air fried bacon to cook up a...
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Fresh Herb Flavored Salts
If you have an abundance of fresh herbs, one of my favorite things to make are herb-infused salts. You can use a wide variety of salts and just about any herbs you enjoy. By blending them together, the...
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Dipping Oil
Dipping oil is one of the easiest appetizers you can make! All you need is a good olive oil and balsamic vinegar, fresh garlic, and a few dried herbs. Place everything in a shallow bowl and then tear...
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Easy Tortilla Egg Bake
This easy tortilla egg bake might have been our most-made dish over the summer. It takes literal minutes to prepare and is so easy, my teens made it on a regular basis. Just put a large tortilla in a...
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Roasted Tomato Soup with Boursin Cheese
New Recipe! This roasted tomato soup is creamy, incredibly flavorful, and so easy as the oven does most of the work! If you have fresh garden tomatoes, this is a great use, and if you don’t- you can...
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Turkey Pear Sandwich
I’ve said it a million times and I’ll say it again, if I ever opened a restaurant (which I have no desire to ever, ever do- way too much work for me!) it would 100% be a sandwich and soup joint. I’ll...
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Roasted Butternut Squash and Feta Soup
Flavors of the season are in full swing in this flavor-packed creamy butternut squash soup. Similar to my Roasted Tomato Soup, we let the oven do most of the work here, oven roasting the vegetables to...
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Crunch Wrap Supremes
My teens love any dinner that mimics some of their favorite fast foods. We love making my popular Beef and Bean Crunch Wraps so we took them up a notch by recreating the iconic supreme crunch wrap! My...
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The Best Recipes for Fresh Tomatoes
Fresh in-season tomatoes are especially flavorful and delicious. During the summer months especially, I’m scooping them up everywhere, whether it be in my own garden, or from a friend, or a farmer’s...
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Sheet Pan Greek Chicken and Vegetables
This easy sheet pan meal is a riff on my extremely popular sheet pan fajitas. Sliced chicken, vegetables, and an easy spice mix gets roasted all in the same pan for an ultra flavorful mix. I love this...
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