If you love one (or all!) of these apple recipes, comment and let me know! Entrees with Apples Can’t get enough of apples? Make them the star of your meal with these apple entree recipes. Filling recipes that still have the best flavors of fall, your family will love these dinners and will ask for them all year long! Apple Dessert Recipes Warm your home and your belly with these easy and delicious apple desserts....

Because I grew up in Jordan I have always loved Middle Eastern food. And even though I no longer live there, I continue to cook many of these traditional dishes for my family. You may have enjoyed this tasty fresh herb salad at a Lebanese restaurant before! This is the recipe you need if you’re looking to recreate Lebanese Tabbouleh at home. We eat tabbouleh salad at least once a week and the whole family loves it....

Browning Avocado Avocado does brown relatively quickly. If you are making this salad in advance, you could prep everything (keeping the chopped egg whites separate) and then stir in the avocado to the sauce just before serving. Forever, I’ve had readers ask me to throw some avocado into the recipe. I am a huge avocado lover, so this was a natural next step for this great sandwich salad. Because avocado brings so much creaminess, we are cutting back on the amount of mayo used....

Eric just tried to explain to me, for the 7,000 time, the difference between affect and effect. He just doesn’t understand that it’s an Unlearnable for me. You know. Just one of those things you’re never going to learn. Just like I’ll never understand what a 1st down is, because every time someone tries to tell me, my eyes glaze over after the first sentence, and I end up being distracted by the appetizers....

Making Ahead Bacon wrapped scallops can be prepared up to 24 hours in advance. To make them ahead, prepare them up to the point of putting them in the oven. Put the prepared scallops in an airtight container in the refrigerator. When you are ready to bake them, put them on your prepared baking tray in a preheated oven and follow the recipe as written. This is a super simple appetizer that comes together with just a few ingredients....

If I told you that I whip up amazingly gourmet meals at the drop of a hat for our dinners every day, then I’d have to be lying. Honestly, I’m always looking for recipes that quick and simple to prepare and will also be enjoyed by my family for dinner – just like this Baingan Bharta recipe. Except of course, when I have company coming! Now that’s a whole different story altogether....

I just walked into the kitchen carrying a stack of glasses gathered from the counter in our bathroom. There were only 4 but it seemed like a lot, and Eric and I had a good laugh at our own ridiculousness. Do you have a collection of water glasses in the bathroom? It reminded me of Eric’s sister Reesy. Once upon a time she was rooming with a friend at the friend’s parent’s house while they were away for an extended period....

Air Fryer Sweet Potato Fries Fries are one of my go-to cravings, and once I learned to make sweet potato fries in the air fryer, I was hooked! They’re just like my fav restaurant fries but I can make them in less time than driving to pick up takeout. All you need is 15 minutes, a large sweet potato or two, and a few basic seasonings I bet you already have....

You have been really loving my vegan apple pie recipe, so I thought that it was about time to share my favorite Carrot cake recipe that I recently veganized. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like carrot cake, and I just wish that I could have a slice of this homemade carrot cake with a cup of tea every single day. Honestly, it’s that perfect! This version is made with lots of grated carrots, not too much sugar, lovely spices, walnuts, raisins, and lemon zest....

Anyway, where was I? Right, awesome wife! Who gave him a fabulous surprise party! And might I add he had no clue. Even with a fridge full of food. But most importantly, even with a clean, pristine home on a Saturday. With Baby Dear around. Yup, he sure didn’t see it coming! Needless to say, it was fun and of course, a tad bit tiring for me too. But to see a large crowd gathered in our home, over delicious comforting food – I’d do it again, in a heart beat!...

More pork recipes to love! Asian Pork Tenderloin with Ginger Glaze (Slow Cooker) « this is a very similar recipe but with Asian flavors! I have carpet in my kitchen. It’s blue. We just moved into this house a couple months ago, and when I would tell people about it I would say, “We love it! It’s awesome! Except there is carpet in the kitchen. Guess you can’t have everything.” WRONG....

I kept busting out random giggles every few minutes, and Eric kept saying, “It’s really NOT that funny.” But it is. It was. It looked like a murder scene. He’s almost here! Christmas is next week and this baby is due tomorrow. Hopefully in my next post I’ll be able to include some pictures of our baby boy! Shattered glass and bright red nail polish, all over our vanity, the wall, the floor, Eric’s pajamas, my charging phone....

So I don’t know if you’ve heard, but California is in the middle of this huge drought right now. The main thing about a drought, see, is that it doesn’t rain. At all. Like, no moisture. That is, until you get tired halfway through moving your couch from one patio to another, and you decide to take a break…for a day and a half. And it’s sitting out in the middle of your dry yard with no roof over it....

Sometimes there is nothing better than a simple cocktail. This crisp and slightly sweet champagne cocktail has become my new favorite! It is so easy to make and the flavor is amazing. This is a great cocktail to celebrate with. Garnish Your Cocktail A simple lemon twist is the perfect garnish for this simple champagne cocktail. To make the lemon twist, cut a slice of fresh lemon. Make a small cut in the skin and then pull the skin off the rest of the lemon....

You guys know how last week I brought you the very simple Frozen Fruit Sangria? The one that is so simple it’s barely a recipe at all? Well, I have another stupid simple one for you this week! I was actually contemplating this idea of giving you one cocktail a week (Fridays because #duh) from now until the end of summer . . . but OMG I’m not sure my liver is ready to make that kind of commitment to recipe development, lol....

Eric will pretty much go down in history as the Gnutella guy. At least he was pronouncing it right. Have you guys ever pronounced a word wrong in public and had to live it down? One time when I was 12, I was giving a short talk in front of my church congregation (like 150 people). I used the word “fatigue” at least twice. Fatigue. Fat-ig-you. Oooooh yeah. Didn’t need pre-teen counseling for that one or anything....

Salads are a delicious way to enjoy a healthy meal. I love about making a salad is they are so versatile, you can add just about anything you feel like eating. The same goes for this tostada salad. How to make tortilla bowls This salad starts with 5-inch flour tortillas. To get the ‘fluted’ bowl shape to hold the salad, the tortillas are brushed with olive oil on both sides....

I really enjoy cooking with chickpeas. I like chickpeas in not just hummus, but also in stews, salads, and curries. These little beans are so healthy and nutritious and I believe that everyone needs to have them more often. This chickpea and potato curry became a family favorite a few months ago when I first started making it, and we now have it at least every fortnight! As I like to keep the spices mild, this curry is suitable for adults and kids....

I’m a big fan of all burgers but sometimes I like something on the lighter side. Because chicken has very little flavor, I’ve incorporated all the flavor in with the chicken meat. Just 4 ingredients (excluding the salt and pepper) are are all that is needed to turn this into one tasty burger. It may even be the big kahuna of chicken burgers (Pulp Fiction reference there). What I love about this burger are the abundance of flavors added to the meat and you can see them in the burger (see below)....

This is going to be a hard post to write, so bear with me. As I mentioned last week, I’ve recently lost a good friend, Joan of the blog Chocolate Chocolate and More. Given that today is National Chocolate Day, we (the blogging community who loved her so much) thought it would be such a perfect day to write posts in her honor. Joan passed away last week. Very suddenly....