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FavoritePinShare Overnight Caramel Banana French Toast with Caramel Syrup is prepped the night before and ready in the morning. Filled with a caramel banana sauce and topped with homemade caramel syrup this is sure to become a new family favorite! I just got back from an epic Disneyland retreat with some of my favorite blogging friends. Disneyland is absolutely magical for the Holidays! I am all about going to Disneyland for their amazing food!...

I’m a proud connoisseur of pumpkin breads, so my expectations for this loaf were exceptionally high. It needed to be moist but not mushy (a hard balance with many Paleo baked goods), healthy but not bland, and every bite needed to sing with spice. It also needed to stand out among the orange array of other pumpkin bread recipes and pumpkin muffin recipes I’ve previously shared, of which there are, admittedly, many....

Love passion fruit? Make sure to also check out my Passion Fruit Ice Cream, Passion Fruit Cocktail and Passion Fruit Mimosa. This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of ACME Markets. All opinions are 100% mine. A quick and easy salmon recipe! Summer is almost gone, which means you will see me walking around the produce section, nervously looking for fresh passion fruit. You see, while this tropical fruit is widely available in my home country (Brazil), it only shows up for about a week here in the United States....

A smooth and creamy pumpkin filling is nestled in a crisp and flaky crust and kissed with whipped cream, for good measure. It couldn’t get any better than this. I love how the filling is flavored with cream cheese, sugar, and spices. The combination creates such a unique flavor that never fails to tantalize my taste buds. I loved it as a kid, and I love it even more now as an adult....

It has been a crazy past few months, meaning I’ve been relying on more store-bought snacks than usual. While they certainly have their place, I’ve missed my healthy homemade snacks (that’s you, No Bake Energy Balls). One of the shiny wrapper foods I’m prone to relying on the most is protein bars. However, today that changes because I’m taking back my breakfasts and snacks with these no bake peanut butter protein bars (and perhaps a batch of my favorite No Bake Granola Bars too)....

Pineapple Fried Rice Pineapple Fried Rice is of Thai origin, though there’s iterations of it all around the world. While some recipes use little more than a dash of soy sauce, this is a recipe that stays true to the Thai way and will evoke memories of warm balmy evenings in Thailand, eating at beach shack diners with your toes squidging in the sand, sipping on fruit cocktails. Or – at rickety tables at your cheerful local Thai restaurant....

This is a reader-favourite recipe included by popular demand in my debut cookbook “Dinner”! Poached Chicken I feel like poached chicken is a life skill that everyone should know. But depending how it’s executed, on the one hand it can be like chewing on chipboard: dismally dry, impossible to swallow and completely flavourless. On the other hand – the successful hand – it’s unbelievably succulent, with chicken flavour you never dreamt was possible, and so tender and juicy you can literally SEE the chicken juices sparkling on the surface of every slice....

Mexicans take their Carnitas tacos seriously because it is so mouth wateringly delicious. Succulent, slow cooked seasoned pork, shredded and stuffed into tacos. I am so obsessed, these are what I made for the cooking demo I did at the 2016 Sydney Good Food & Wine Show on the weekend!!! It’s been 2 years since I posted my Pork Carnitas recipe which, to this day, remains as one of my all time most popular recipes....

Potato Fry In South Indian cuisine, we usually serve stir fry dishes with rice, Rasam or Sambar, so is this aloo fry. You can also serve it in a meal of dal fry or dal tadka, jeera rice or even with plain rice and ghee. My kids love this with just anything, so I sometimes also pack it in their school box with some rotis and veggie salad. For a quick interesting dinner, I spread some green chutney on roti and wrap them up with a filling of this stir fried potatoes, lemon juice or chaat masala, kachumber and coriander leaves....

Also, here is my everyday Pad Thai recipe which is the version I make most often, no trip to the Asian store required. 🙂 The restaurant version I’m sharing is an absolute ripper of a Pad Thai. I can go on and on about how incredible it is because it isn’t mine, so I don’t have to worry about sounding arrogant! It is the Pad Thai recipe of one of Sydney’s hottest Thai restaurants – Spice I Am....

This is a reader-favourite recipe included by popular demand in my debut cookbook “Dinner”! Pumpkin soup Some recipes should be kept simple as nature intended them to be, and in my opinion, Pumpkin Soup is one of those dishes. The natural flavour of pumpkin is good enough that you need very little to make a beautiful, creamy, full flavoured soup. And while sometimes it’s nice to have a dolled up version with all the bells and whistles, 99% of the time, this simple recipe is how I make it....

FavoritePinShare This recipe will teach you how to make queso blanco from scratch just like they serve at your favorite Mexican restaurant (without Velveeta!). It’s made of high quality cheese and fresh ingredients which come together to make the perfectly creamy dip! Is there anything better than a cheesy dip? I can’t resist making dip for every party I throw because everyone loves them. They are super quick and easy to whip up and are a total crowd pleaser....

FavoritePinShare This Veggie Dip is easy, quick and the yummiest dip! This creamy, full of flavor dip is the perfect way to get your kids to eat their vegetables! Everyone loves a good dip, because we all love a good excuse to eat with our fingers! These dips will be the hit of the party, Ranch, Rotel, and 5 Minute Million Dollar Dip! Veggie Dip Every parent knows that battle. Trying to get your kids to eat better....

FavoritePinShare Delicious homemade Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups in the form of a bar! My oven just stopped working. It is always a sad day for someone that uses it quite frequently and loves to bake. Hopefully it will be replaced real soon because I am totally wanting to bake a batch of chocolate chip cookies. This is the inner fat pregnant girl talking right now. 🙂 Luckily these delicious squares were easy and also no bake....

Roasted bell peppers can be a fantastic accompaniment to many dishes. The best part, they are ridiculously easy to make and only take about 20 minutes of work. I mostly roast red bell peppers, though the color doesn’t matter. Yellow, orange and green peppers are prepared the same way. Red bell peppers are sweet, so are the yellow and orange. Green peppers are not, and I use them when I don’t want sweetness in a dish....

That’s right. Without even thawing the broccoli first, you can make it crispy and caramelized. I bet if you didn’t know the broccoli was previously frozen, you’d never even suspect. As much as I adore roasted vegetables and as ardently as I believe they are the tastiest way to add more veggies to your diet—I cook a pan almost every single night (usually this Roasted Broccoli and Carrots), and we eat the leftovers for lunches and dinners too—I certainly have my nights when it’s getting late, we’re hungry, and I simply do not feel like taking the time to chop vegetables for roasting....

Sweet potato is probably my most underused vegetable, and I have no idea why. It has superfood status, it’s packed with nutrition and it’s a potato. Carb Monster, right here. Potato Girl. Yet to meet a form of potato – sweet or regular – that I don’t love. That’s going to change in the coming months. I actually love sweet potato, it’s just never made my weekly shopping basket. Nowadays, I always have it and I’ve been making some great quick meals using sweet potato rather than regular ones....

This canned salmon recipe will make you realise you CAN make incredible dishes using canned fish! Salmon Patties Good quality fresh salmon is not cheap. So if I buy fresh salmon, I like to cook it whole rather than mixing it up with other ingredients for things like salmon patties. My go-to quick salmon fillet recipes are Honey Garlic Salmon and Lemon Glazed Salmon 🙂 So I’ve always used canned salmon to make salmon cakes....

FavoritePinShare These salted caramel brownies are perfectly fudgy and moist brownies with an oozing salted caramel center. These will be one of the best brownies you sink your teeth into! If you love brownies, then boy, do I have a treat for you! More brownie recipes! These cherry cheesecake brownies, these delicious lemon brownies, and these yummy strawberry brownies are what I would recommend you make next! Salted Caramel Brownies Recipe I didn’t think salted caramel got much better until I made it into brownie form....

FavoritePinShare This caesar wedge salad is a twist on a classic starter and it’s filled with delicious and fresh flavors! It’s perfect for serving with every meal and your whole family will love it! Who doesn’t love a good salad when meal time rolls around? You must try out this delicious copycat Olive Garden salad, this Portillo’s chopped salad and this mouthwatering strawberry spinach salad. They are perfect for eating all year round!...