Best Recipes

the best easy italian pasta sala

Meet your new summer bestie: A stupidly easy Italian pasta salad with rotini, juicy tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, red onion, salami, olives, herbs, and a drench of quick homemade Italian dressing. If you want to know what I’ve eaten for 4 of my last 5 meals, it’s THIS SUMMER ESSENTIAL. We are kind of having a…


elote queso

Here, take a chip, because it’s elote queso o’clock which happens to be my FAVORITE o’clock of the summer. This queso, man. This queso is a grill favorite (elotes) and an app favorite (queso) all bubbled up together in one skillet: a creamy, classic, smooth-melting queso basefresh jalapeños and garlicroasted corncilantrochili powderqueso fresco cheese* Grab…


bbq salmon bowls with mango avocado salsa

Salmon lovers, salmon skeptics… gather round, all of you. This is not your ordinary salmon. It is salmon that’s been given a delicious and aggressive treatment of sweet and smoky spices, which then gets broiled (fast! easy!) which results in a lightly crunchy outer layer, which conveniently mixes-and-matches with that buttery, silky, lime-zesty, sweet and…


two person raspberry crumbles

Question: what have I been making after dinner every night for three weeks straight? Answer: TWO PERSON RASPBERRY CRUMBLES.EMBED two person raspberry crumblesPinch of Yum, Two Person Raspberry Crumbles! A layer of oat-brown-sugar crust, juicy bubbly raspberries, and topped with a buttery crumble that’s baked to perfection. These sweet, jammy, buttery, lip-staining red berry crumbles…


spicy shrimp tacos with garlic cilantro lime slaw

It’s almost hard to talk about these tacos, that’s how much I love them. What we have going on here is delicious spice-loaded shrimp tucked in between smashed avocado and a cabbage slaw that is heavy with a homemade creamy lime sauce. Question: topped with crumbly, salty Cotija cheese, and wrapped in a corn tortilla with a wedge…


breakfast crunchwrap

Let me cast a vision for you. Crispy hashbrowns snuggled up with scrambled eggs and sausage, plus a layer of creamy melted cheese, wrapped in a tortilla – CRUNCHWRAP STYLE – grilled to golden brown perfection, and you, warm, gooey crunchwrap in hand, asking yourself: where has this been all my brunch life? This is…


instant pot italian beef sandwiches

Instant Pot Italian Beef Sandwiches are here just in time for the chaos of back-to-school and they are ready to love you. There is so much to love about food that takes 7 minutes to prepare and involves tender shredded beef with a lot of garlic and onion, crusty buttered bread, melted Provolone, salty and…


sheet pan bbq tofu

This is tofu like you’ve never seen it before. Like, tofu with a spice crust. (YES! THANK YOU!) Tofu that feels worthy of building a meal around. Tofu that you can eat off the pan as a snack. This is sheet pan BBQ Tofu, and it is an end-of-summer, healthy eating lifesaver. BBQ Tofu is…


best peach cobbler

So this is summer: Drippy, juicy, borderline inappropriate peaches and the peak of sweetness baked into a jammy base under a light cookie-dough-meets-biscuit type topping with coarse sugar for sparkle and crunch. Please, summer, don’t leave us.  WE NEED YOU. We need fresh peach cobblers resting warm out of the oven on our counters. We…


bestie meal

Hold on, hold on. I’m envisioning a perfect fall snack. It has pumpkin, oats, maple, chia seeds, almond butter, pumpkin seeds, sea salt, and cinnamon all packed together in a densely-textured nutritional powerhouse bomb. It’s just sweet enough, and it slightly resembles cookie dough, but with more of a fall cookie flavor and more of…