These Cheddar Bay Biscuits are a Red Lobster copycat recipe. Enjoy these tender, flavorful biscuits without having to leave your home! We serve this bread as a dinner side dish with pasta, chicken, and soup! Cheddar Bay Biscuits are the main reason our family loves eating at Red Lobster, so we decided to make them […]
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Potato Soup Recipe
This hearty Potato Soup recipe is warm and comforting. We love eating baked potato soup loaded with cheese, bacon, and chives. We often make soup for dinner during the cooler months and enjoy it with salad and bread on the side. Loaded potato soup is a restaurant favorite, so we made this recipe so that […]
Cheese Fries
These Cheese Fries have fresh, crispy French fries topped with warm cheese sauce and crunchy bacon bits. Serve as an appetizer or side dish! We love ordering cheeseburgers and chicken sandwiches with bacon cheese fries from Shake Shack. So when we made our own cheese dip recipe, we had to try it on homemade french […]
Cheese Dip
Here’s the smooth, creamy Cheese Dip recipe your chips and fries are begging for! It’s easy to make and better than store-bought. Cheesy appetizers are our favorite! Who can resist warm cheese dip with pretzel bites, tortilla chips, and homemade french fries?
Nacho Cheese
This mouth-watering Nacho Cheese recipe is the ultimate appetizer! Serve this nacho cheese sauce with tortilla chips, veggies, or nacho fries. Cheesy dips are one of our favorite appetizers, along with mozzarella sticks, spinach artichoke dip, and pretzel bites. Our family loves Taco Bell nacho fries and nacho cheese sauce. So we took our homemade […]
Nacho Fries
Use this easy Nacho Fries recipe to make copycat Taco Bell fries at home! Serve these spicy, crispy fries with cheese dip. French fries are a popular appetizer, but they are also a great side dish for burgers, pork, steak, and chicken. Taco Bell Nacho Fries are only available occasionally, but with this recipe, you […]
Mozzarella Sticks
Cheesy, crispy Mozzarella Sticks are the ultimate appetizer with melted cheese coated with fried breadcrumbs dipped in marinara sauce. Fried mozzarella is one of the most popular appetizers, as well as other classics like tortilla chips and salsa, nachos, and chicken wings. If fried mozzarella sticks are on the menu at a restaurant, our family […]
Fried Zucchini
Fried Zucchini is the BEST way to eat summer squash! It has crispy, flavorful breading on the outside with tender zucchini on the inside. We’ve been making different versions of this recipe for years but finally nailed down how to make the crispiest, the most flavorful, the most amazing fried zucchini bites ever! Even our […]
Salsa Recipe
This restaurant style Salsa Recipe takes less than 5 minutes to prepare. Serve with tortilla chips and there won’t be any leftovers! Next time you are having friends over and need a quick appetizer or snack, make this simple salsa recipe! Everyone will be impressed and only you will know how easy it was to […]
Two Ingredient Dough Rosemary Bread
This quick Rosemary Bread recipe is made with two-ingredient dough and no yeast! Serve with your favorite pasta or use it to make sandwiches. Fresh, flavorful bread is always a crowd-pleaser! It goes well with so many dishes. Bread can be served as an appetizer with olive oil for dipping, alongside meals such as pasta […]
Air Fryer Chicken Tenders
You’ll love this crispy, juicy Air Fryer Chicken Tenders recipe. Skip the drive-thru and make the best chicken tenders at home! Air fryer chicken tenders are so easy to make and are ready in 20 minutes! Serve them as an appetizer or as a family-friendly meal. They are delicious with waffle fries and chipotle ranch […]
Hot Honey Baked Ham
This Hot Honey Baked Ham recipe has a mouthwatering combo of sweet and spicy that’s perfect for a holiday dinner or hot honey ham sandwiches! Ham is traditionally the centerpiece of our Easter dinner, and this year we decided to make a hot honey-baked ham. It has all of the things a traditional ham has, […]
Hot Honey Recipe
This Hot Honey recipe is a tantalizing combination of sweet and spicy. It’s perfect for drizzling on fried chicken, pizza, ham and ice cream! The first time we tried hot honey was on fried chicken sandwiches at a restaurant in Wilmington, North Carolina. Since then, we’ve eaten it on pizza, grilled cheese sandwiches, and chicken […]
Ranch Dressing Recipe
This homemade Ranch Dressing recipe is easy to make and better than store-bought! Your family will love using it as a salad dressing and dip. Although we like many different salad dressings, ranch dressing remains our favorite! Besides being delicious on a large variety of salads, it can be used as a dip for anything […]
Roasted Chickpeas
Roasted Chickpeas are flavorful, crunchy garbanzo beans that are perfect for snacking on or delicious on top of a salad. Chickpeas are loved as a plant-based protein source that also contains fiber, both of which are filling. Since most of us wouldn’t eat handfuls of chickpeas straight from the can, roasting them makes them totally […]
Chicken Lettuce Wraps
These Chicken Lettuce Wraps are bursting with flavor and color! Top lettuce leaves with chicken, thinly sliced veggies, and peanut sauce. The last few times I’ve gone to the Cheesecake Factory, I’ve ordered the Asian Chicken Lettuce Wrap Tacos and thoroughly enjoyed them. I decided to make a copycat so that I can have them […]
Peanut Sauce Recipe
This yummy Peanut Sauce recipe comes together in seconds and is perfect for dipping meat and veggies or drizzling on salads and wraps. We love that this peanut sauce recipe is super easy to make and can be made ahead of time and stored in the refrigerator. Our favorite way to use it is to […]
Corn Poppers
Corn Poppers are deep-fried, melted cheese balls stuffed with sweet corn, diced jalapeños, and diced red peppers coated in crispy breadcrumbs. Our Jalapeno Popper Bites are already delicious, but since corn on the cob is in season, we decided to try adding some sweet corn to them, and they are fantastic! They are spicy and […]
Steak Marinade
This Steak Marinade recipe is a simple combination of pantry-staple ingredients that adds fantastic flavor to your steaks! In our family, we pretty much like all steaks cooked any which way, but even so, we have our favorites. We love steaks seared in a pan, as I talk about in this post: How To Cook […]
Queso Recipe
The ultimate Queso Recipe with melted cheeses, spicy peppers, and Mexican seasonings! This popular restaurant cheese dip is a party favorite. If there’s one appetizer everyone agrees on, it is chips and melted cheese! From queso to nachos, we all love snacking on the cheesy, crunchy combination. With this easy recipe, you can make your […]
Air Fryer Chicken Wings
Wondering how to air fry chicken wings? This crispy Air Fryer Chicken Wings recipe is a crowd favorite! So easy to make and full of flavor. Air fryer chicken wings can be served as a party appetizer, on game day, or as the main dish alongside rice or a salad. You can coat the wings […]
Garlic Parmesan Wing Sauce
This Garlic Parmesan Wing Sauce recipe is super easy to whip up and is delicious on chicken wings, chicken tenders, pasta, and even popcorn! When our kids were teens, they would take weekly turns making dinner for our family. Our son loved making copycat Buffalo Wild Wings garlic parmesan sauce for pasta and wings. We […]
Mango Cucumber Salad
Mango Cucumber Salad is a combination of fresh mango and vegetables. Serve with chicken or fish. Or turn it into salsa and serve with chips. This mango cucumber salad recipe is super easy to prepare when you need a quick side dish. It goes works really well with tacos, chicken, and fish!
Bacon Fried Corn
Bacon Fried Corn is an easy side dish your family will love! Fried corn with bacon can be served at summer BBQs and holiday dinners as well! Boiled corn on the cob is one of our favorite things to eat during the summer. But there are so many other ways to enjoy sweet corn, and […]
Ham and Potato Soup
Warm, comforting, cheesy Ham and Potato Soup is a family tradition! This hearty soup is easy to make with a few simple ingredients. Whenever my mom made a bone-in ham, usually for holidays, we hoped there would be leftovers so that she would also make this ham and potato soup recipe! She would always serve […]
Sesame Chicken
Sesame Chicken is a favorite take-out choice and you can make it at home in less than 30 minutes! Serve over rice or noodles. When dining out one of our favorite meals to order is sesame chicken with fried rice and cream cheese wontons. So today I’m sharing my sesame chicken recipe that you can […]
Air Fryer Cream Cheese Wontons
Crispy Air Fryer Cream Cheese Wontons are filled with garlic cream cheese. Serve these easy cream cheese puffs as an appetizer or side dish. The first cream cheese wontons were authentic, homemade ones from my neighbor who was making them for a family celebration of hers. They were the best cream cheese puffs I’ve ever […]
Glazed Shredded Carrots
These Glazed Shredded Carrots are sweet and spicy with a little zest! Serve brown sugar carrots as a side for your favorite meats. We ate at a restaurant in Florida while on vacation with our friends, and everything was delicious, including the glazed shredded carrots! A side dish has to be pretty spectacular to stand […]
Pineapple Pico de Gallo
This Pineapple Pico de Gallo recipe comes together in minutes! Serve as an appetizer with chips or enjoy on top of chicken, tacos, and fish. I use pico de gallo in so many of my recipes and realized that I’ve never shared my recipe for homemade pico de gallo. It’s such an easy recipe, and […]
Garlic Parmesan Pretzels
Crunchy Garlic Parmesan Pretzels are a flavorful snack the whole family will love. They are easy to make any time the craving hits! Of all the spices and seasonings out there, the garlic parmesan combination is probably my family’s favorite. It goes well on everything from chicken and pasta to grilled cheese and biscuits. And […]
Coconut Rice
Coconut Rice has a rich texture from the coconut milk with a light coconut flavor. Serve with your favorite chicken, beef, or fish recipes. My son asked me to make coconut rice after having it at a restaurant while on vacation. Now that we’ve figured out how to make it this coconut rice recipe is […]
Poultry Seasoning
Make your Poultry Seasoning with only six ingredients you already have on your spice rack! Use it for making stuffing or seasoning chicken. For Thanksgiving dinner this year, I finally decided to figure out how to make homemade dressing! One of the ingredients called for in stuffing or dressing recipes is poultry seasoning. Since I […]