Thai Red Chicken Curry With Pumpkin, Walnut & Pomegranate

Strawberry-Almond French Toast Casserole

A quick, make-ahead recipe, ideal for Sunday or Mother’s Day Brunch and easy enough for Dad or the kids to assemble!

Gnocchi Truffle Alfredo

Today, we’re making Gnocchi Truffle Alfredo!

Strawberry Lemonade Vodka

As a kid, summer was made for enjoy warm weather, not being in school and enjoying lemonade drinks. So, I have come to enjoy lemonade drinks. As a adult, I now enjoy this delicious Strawberry Lemonade Vodka cocktail.

Spicy Honey Mustard Chicken Sandwich

Every Friday when it's time to go grocery shopping, I try to utilize every remaining vegetable in the fridge. Not only does it challenge me in coming up with delicious meals but it prevents me from wasting food. That is exactly what happened when I created this spicy honey mustard chicken sandwich. With a leftover bunch of kale, some extra sweet potatoes, and an apple sitting on the counter, I was able to whip together one delicious lunch. Loaded with an apple kale slaw and Cajun roasted sweet potatoes, this sandwich is incredibly satisfying. I gotta say, for a raid the fridge recipe, this one is a sure winner!

Mini Steak Quesadillas With Mushrooms

Mini Steak Quesadillas are filled with succulent beef, mushrooms, and melted cheese in a soft tortilla toasted until crisp. This crowd-pleasing appetizer comes together in less than 30 minutes!

Gluten-Free, Vegan AND Refined Sugar Free Strawberry Shortcake

Finding a delicious dessert that is gluten-free, vegan AND refined sugar-free can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Well, look no further because I have you covered with this Strawberry Shortcake recipe!

Spicy-Sweet Potato Bean Soup With Chicken

This Spicy-Sweet Potato Bean Soup will become your new favorite soup recipe. It is made with sweet potatoes, black beans, and fire roasted tomatoes and is ready in 30 minutes. The soup is made over the stovetop, but can easily be prepared in the slow cooker as well.

Grilled Onion Burger

Grilled onion burgers are juicy beef burgers topped with grilled onions, blue cheese, peppery arugula, and a tangy yogurt sauce for the perfect blend of flavors. In the summer we like to keep things simple and cooking everything on the grill is the best way to do that. Instead of frying, the onions are brushed with a little bit of oil and balsamic vinegar then grilled with the burgers for a sweet and delicious burger topping.

Little Smokies Breakfast Bake

Is breakfast one of your favorite meals? Breakfast casseroles are a perfect way to start your day. This breakfast casserole recipe is full of delicious ingredients like hash browns, little smokies breakfast sausages, sliced mushrooms, cheddar cheese, eggs, milk, and seasonings. Hillshire Farms Lit'l Smokies Sausages give this casserole the best flavor. It is quick to put together, just slice the sausage and mushrooms, sauté the mushrooms in butter, grate the cheese (or buy pre-shredded cheese), mix the eggs with the milk and seasonings, layer your casserole in a 9 x 13 baking dish, and bake. Enjoy with your favorite people for breakfast or dinner-love breakfast for dinner! If you like this recipe, check out the other breakfast recipes on Sweeter With Sugar.

Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies

Vegan and gluten-free fluffy cookies.These cookies have the BEST texture. I love it when cookies are thick and have a "raw" feel to them...not sure if I'm explaining it right lol but trust me, try them and you'll see!!I wouldn’t suggest changing anything in this recipe, keep the ingredients and measurements the same and you won’t be disappointed.You will need almond flour for this recipe.Use brown sugar, baking powder, salt and vanilla.You will need melted butter and 1 flax egg.Any chocolate can be used for this recipe, I decided to use dark chocolate to keep it vegan.You don’t really need much to make this recipe and you can easily use what you already have on hand.You will need:Baking tray lined with parchment paper1 mixing bowlWhiskSpatula to mixFor measuring: 1/4 tsp, 1/2 tsp, 1 tsp, 1 tbs, 1/4 cup, 1/2 cup, 1 cup.

5 Minute Apple Toffee Dip

I whip up this dip once the apples are in abundance! It's only 5 minutes of prep and your kids will adore you for making it. This apple dip is great for picnics and family gatherings as people can scoop and eat on the go. My kids also love it as an afterschool snack. A great way to get them to eat a TON of apples! The marshmallow layer gets topped with sweet and crunchy toppings. It's like eating a deconstructed caramel apple!

Air Fryer Donut Holes (using Pizza Dough)

Air Fryer Donut Holes are simple, easy and a family favorite! Grab my favorite pizza dough recipe and turn it into these sweet and pillowy donuts. Yes, I said pizza dough! Everyone is always amazed that donuts can be made from pizza dough. Using your Air Fryer, they come together quickly (in just 5 minutes) so your kids won't be waiting long to dig in. Make sure you have the melted butter and cinnamon and sugar ready and waiting when they are nice and hot to dunk and roll!

How to Throw a Tropical No Cook Brunch

Coconut Tapioca Pudding

This is a tropical twist on a classic tapioca recipe. Pairs perfectly with fresh mango for a Thai-themed dessert. But honestly, you can’t go wrong using any fresh fruit; strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, peaches…The sky is the limit!

Easy Crock Pot Beef Stroganoff With Mushroom Soup

My easy Crock Pot Beef Stroganoff is the ultimate comfort food! Prepare it in the morning before work, and you’ll have a hearty meal ready when you come home!

Mango Strawberry Fruit Popsicles: Healthy Frozen Treats for Summer

These mango strawberry popsicles make a healthy treat for the summer. Both kids and adults will love these healthy frozen treats, and no one will be any the wiser that they are made without any added sugar. With just three ingredients, these yogurt and fruit popsicles are easy to make, and they last up to three months in the freezer for a fun treat all summer long.

Triple Berry Sour Cream Muffins

These bakery style muffins are bursting with berries! Sour cream amps up this batter, I promise you'll be making these muffins forever. My kids request these every time we have "breakfast for dinner" nights. They are perfect around a plate of bacon and eggs. The three berry combo is mouthwatering! Make sure to sprinkle just a tad of sugar on top of the muffins before baking. They will come out looking like they are from the corner bakery. People will be asking for this recipe after their first bite!

The Best Caramel Corn Ever!

This Caramel Corn does not disappoint! It is sweet, a little salty, and gooey-just the way caramel corn should be. It's very quick and easy to make-it uses microwave popcorn, real butter-definitely NO margarine, sweetened condensed milk, and brown sugar, just to name a few of the ingredients. All you need to do is pop the popcorn and remove the un-popped kernels-there is a great tip below. Make the caramel and coat the popcorn. Make sure you use a large mixing or serving bowl, this recipe makes a lot of caramel corn. Which is really great because you will love it! I do not think I have ever had any leftover. Everyone loves this recipe. Check out some of our other recipes with caramel.

Vegetarian Pasta Fagioli Soup Recipe

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Aloo Mango Salad

I love air frying everything potatoes, it gives me a different level of satisfaction to eat those gorgeous crisply golden potatoes fried in a few drops of oil. Making most of mango season with this Indian inspired chaat flavors.

The Best Strawberry Mascarpone Topped Mint Cookie Dessert

Coconut Lime Margarita Cupcakes

These Coconut Lime Margarita Cupcakes are like the favorite cocktail in a little baked treat! Made for adults using 1800 Coconut Tequila, freshly squeezed lime juice, and toasted coconut, these cupcakes will be a summer favorite at any BBQ or party. This baked treat is basically the cocktail in dessert form using the 1800 Coconut Tequila in the batter and the frosting. Although these cupcakes are boozy, you can also make a kid-friendly version without the tequila. This Coconut Tequila frosting is made with vegetable shortening instead of butter because there is less butter flavor to compete with the coconut flavor. I find that vegetable shortening also creates a stiffer frosting that’s great for piping. If you don’t want to use shortening, you can sub in unsalted butter.

Easy Caprese Pasta Salad - The Kitchen Garten

The first time I’d ever eaten a Caprese salad, layered with fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, and basil, was in a cousin’s house in New Jersey. My grandfather had taken my cousin and me up to Jersey to meet my grandmother’s family, and they had a gorgeous summer garden. The tomatoes were ripe, the basil was bright green, and this Caprese pasta salad is my way of remembering that delicious trip!

Strawberry Pistachio Cupcakes

I love trying to come up with recipes that are simple and yet have lots of flavor. The problem in vegan baking is always what to use as an egg substitute. The answer is: it depends on what you want the egg to do. Is it there to moisten, leaven, bind, or a combination of two or three?I know some people always use chia or flax seeds, others stick with fruit purée, and still others use aquafaba. Personally, I like to mix it up and try different things depending on what else is in the recipe. In this recipe, I’ve gone with fruit purée and chia seeds, but made it super easy to put them together,,

Fried Egg and Tomato Toast

Fried Egg and Tomato toast is a hangry girls best friend. All you need is a few minutes, and the hangry beast within will be satisfied. I’m not even joking.. well maybe just a little lolToasts are literally the perfect vehicle for getting food into you as quick as possible. There are so many variations of this too, pretty much guaranteeing you’ll never get bored.

How to Cook Campfire Bread on a Stick

Did you ever bake bread on a stick as a child? Also known as damper or bannock bread, campfire bread on a stick is a simple, non yeast bread recipe that we think everyone should try at least once.Fire building and campfire cooking are hands down our favourite outdoor activities. Everyone loves cooking on a fire, and cooking bread on a stick couldn’t be simpler.

Hojicha Chiffon Cake

Chiffon cake is an airy and springy cake that is incredibly easy to eat as it's so light! It involves separating eggs first, then using the egg whites to create a meringue that will be incorporated into the egg yolk and flour mixture to achieve the light and fluffy texture. Chiffon cakes are generally baked in a tube-shaped pan that is not non-stick. This allows the cake to cook evenly, and gives a surface for the cake to cling to as it rises (so that it does not sink back on itself later). After discovering Hojicha powder (Hojicha is a roasted green tea), I am addicted to baking with it and felt it would go wonderfully as a chiffon cake. I have also added whipped cream and tapioca pearls to this cake, but that is totally optional. Chiffon cake is delightful on it's own without any toppings.

Pepper Salad

I love making quick and easy salads in the summer. Who wants to spend all day in the kitchen once the nice weather rolls around?Plus, this is a good way to “eat the rainbow” painlessly.As a vegan, people often ask me what I eat. Yes, I do eat salads, just like non-vegans do ( funny how people can eat a salad without labeling it as vegan, and really enjoy it), but I eat so much more!Since most of my family are non-vegans, I like to come up with some really fun, colorful takes on salad that don’t include lettuce. It makes everyone happy: them, because they are eating a tasty salad (not thinking-vegan) and me because they are eating veggies and I don’t have to make multiple dishes!this salad is a win-win for everyone!

Cheesy Brat Stew

A solution for leftover brats Since Memorial Day is upon us, I thought I would post this recipe just in case you’re about to throw some sausages on the grill, and are worried about having leftovers. This brat stew is so yummy, you might want to cook up some extra on purpose! The recipe is meant for bratwurst or Polish sausage, but really almost any sausage will work. When I made this recently I used 4 bratwursts and 2 Italian sausages - naturally, because that’s what was in the fridge! This is a really old recipe I can’t give you a link for this recipe, because I got it before there was an Internet. I can however tell you where I found it. You see, in the 1980’s I worked for a healthcare organization in a position some called “relationship management.” In other words: sales. It’s not in the job description but I spent a lot of time sitting in doctors’ waiting rooms. Appointment times were estimates, because, of course, the patients always came first. Picture it: no Internet, no smart phones, no idea how soon your name will be called. The only entertainment was to pick up a magazine. I quickly became an expert on celebrity gossip rifling through back issues of People and then on to Redbook and Good Housekeeping. And, it was in one of those magazines that I found this recipe.

Air Fried Crab Taquitos

Today, we’re making Air Fried Crab Taquitos!

Pineapple Tomatillo Salsa

Can we all agree that one of the best parts of Mexican food is the chips and salsa? Chips and Salsa are addicting to almost everyone, but especially when it’s homemade Salsa. This Pineapple Tomatillo Salsa hits all the right notes: Spicy, sweet, acidic… all the components of a completely addicting snack, appetizer, or if you’re my husband… an entire meal!The tomatillos are roasted to give extra flavor, and then pineapple is added to bring in some tang. My mouth is watering just thinking about it!Check out this recipe down below- you’ll never want to get store-bought again! If you have any questions, feel free to comment below. And don’t forget to follow me on Instagram @theflouredcountertop, and on Pinterest under the same name.

105 Calorie Margarita

There’s nothing like a good Margarita on a hot summer’s day. I love a Margarita but I don’t love the calories. This 105 calorie Margarita delivers all of the flavor and punch of a Margarita with just a few calories. I’m all for that!

Try These Creamy & Sweet Lemon Blueberry Cheesecake Bars!

Snickers Cupcakes

I don’t think there will ever come a day that Snickers candy bars don’t remind me of my grandpa. I remember hearing from him over and over growing up that he needed to stop eating as many of the fun-size Snickers bars as he used to….because he was working an office job fitting hearing aids and not out working construction anymore and his old habits were starting to catch up to him 😉 As a kid with a fast metabolism, I kind of shrugged it off – what was he talking about anyway? Once I got into high school and college and wasn’t quite as active on a regular basis….yeah, it started making sense about then. But Snickers bars are soooo addicting! Thank heaven I developed a mild running addiction to balance my poorly-controlled sweet tooth :p Aaaanyway. Back on track here. The cupcakes in these pictures weren’t my first batch – the first time I made them was with my niece and nephew. We were too busy to bother with pictures. 😉 We were wrangling the piping bag – it was their first time piping frosting – and chatting and having fun; our phones got pretty much ignored. This batch I finally got my act together and got pictures! This is a great recipe for any beginning cupcake-frosting-pipers – if the piping doesn’t go the way you want, just throw enough chopped peanuts, sprinkles, and Snickers bars on to cover everything up and chalk it up to a good practice run! 😉

Cookie Dough Buttercream

This cookie dough buttercream is SO deliciously smooth like buttercream but packs a flavor that tastes just like cookie dough! Use it to top cupcakes, frost a cake, sandwich between cookies and more. This buttercream is super simple! Just make sure that your butter is softened (room temp or slightly warmer) before creaming it with the brown sugar. The one extra step within this recipe is to heat the flour to ensure that it’s safe to consume. The flour and brown sugar in this recipe are key to giving the buttercream that cookie dough flavor! See my instructions below for easy flour-heating instructions.

Vegan Chilaquiles With Chipotle Tofu, Bens and Cashew Queso

This is a really fun recipe for an indulgent brunch, and a great way to use up those leftover tortilla chips at the bottom of the bag! There are a lot of elements here, and I used cashew queso because I had some in the fridge, but this dish certainly works without it. And you could certainly use a store bought salsa, but the aroma and depth of flavor that comes from roasting your own veg and making your own salsa is really special, and always makes me feel super accomplished! Simmer some black beans and slice up an avocado to go along with the chilaquiles and you’ll have a well-balanced brunch!

Crispy Tofu Tacos

Since Cinco de Mayo is only two days away I HAD to share this amazing taco recipe with you.When I first told my family I was making tofu for dinner, you could see the abject horror in their eyes. “Tofu???” they shrieked, “Gross!”Nope. Not the way I make it. A lot of people are surprised to hear I actually like tofu because I’m a die-hard meat-eater. But tofu, made properly, is delicious!Plus? Tofu is an incredibly affordable protein source. When you’re feeding a family, affordability is important. That’s why I started making my own energy balls as a substitute for those expensive protein bars.Here's my recipe for the most delicious crispy tofu tacos, perfect for Taco Tuesday, Meatless Monday, and will make even the pickiest eater ask for seconds.

Parmesan Roasted Broccoli

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