Slow Cooker Jambalaya is loaded with tasty sausage, chicken, and shrimp that gets cooked low and slow to activate the bold spices. This hearty dinner is an effortless meal that is ready with only 10 minutes of prep! One-pot meals are the perfect solution for busy nights! Cajun alfredo, shrimp creole, and foil packets are more easy and flavor-packed meals that will liven up a normal weeknight. Easy Slow Cooker Jambalaya Recipe Slow cooker jambalaya is delicious, satisfying, and comes together with hardly any effort at all!...

Spanakopita If I were to compile the Greatest Hits of dishes I’ve served to friends in recent years, this one shoots straight to the list. It made an appearance at a recent gathering, and to say it was the most popular dish of the night would be an understatement. It was the first thing to go. There were rave reviews around the table. We were picking at the leftover shards of filo pastry long after the last piece had disappeared....

Terrific festive party food! Paella recipe If you’ve always wanted to but been too afraid to try Paella, I can assure you – there is no reason to be scared! If you approach it the right way – and I like to keep my recipes as risk free as possible – you will end up with rice that’s cooked exactly to your taste in a saffron infused, flavour loaded sauce with all your seafood cooked to perfection....

Served with a Peanut Coconut Sauce to really drive home the coconut flavour, this Thai Chicken is fantastic for the BBQ, stovetop or roasting. Serve this with a side of jasmine rice or Thai Fried Rice! Thai Coconut Chicken If you’re new to coconut marinades, you’re going to really love this Coconut Chicken recipe! Coconut milk is a brilliant marinade – it’s a flavour carrier, infusing the chicken with all the tasty flavours you’ve mixed into the marinade....

Ever since my visit to the Groves Grown Tropical Fruit farm which I babbled about in the Coconut Shrimp/Prawns with Spicy Thai Mango Sauce recipe I shared a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been going a little mango-mad. Mango sorbet. Mango cheesecake. Mango marinade (seriously SO GOOD!). Mango salsas. I don’t want to overwhelm you with mango recipes so I decided to pick one more to share this summer. And really, there was no contention....

A classic dessert, made with a creamy vanilla bean and banana custard filling! This banana cream pie recipe is foolproof and ready to please a crowd! There’s nothing quite as luscious or indulgent as homemade pie! For more creamy deliciousness, try this perfect coconut cream pie, key lime pie, or sweet potato pie! Homemade Banana Cream Pie Recipe You guys know I love a good pie. It’s the perfect way to end a meal, whether it’s a holiday or not!...

Layer this amazing marinade onto your shrimp for a perfectly rich, savory flavor with a pop of lemon your taste buds will LOVE! The drool-worthy flavor combinations and ease of preparation make this Shrimp Marinade a recipe to come back to over and over again. A marinade can really make or break grilled meat and seafood. For your barbecues this summer, I recommend also trying my steak, chicken, and Asian-inspired marinades to count on for flavorful, mouth-watering meat every time!...

The star of the Super Bowl every year is the FOOD!! Even if you are a huge football fan, you know that you can’t go without those delicious super bowl snacks while watching the game! A Super Bowl party without snacks is like dinner without an entree. It doesn’t work! To make sure that your party is successful, start out by making these wings, this amazing dip, and these yummy nachos!...

Hey Recipe Critic readers!! Chelsea from Chelsea’s Messy Apron here for one of the last recipes in the month of January. Which means it’s obviously still a healthy recipe, or is everyone done with their healthy eating resolutions by now? Regardless of resolutions or none this is a recipe you’ll want to make again and again! It’s a super simple granola that takes minutes to put together and not too long to bake....

Creamy, rich, and filled with flavor, this white chocolate raspberry cheesecake is a deliciously decadent dessert! Its marble swirl on top and graham cracker crust on the bottom will make you want to serve this dessert with every meal! You know that I love cheesecake. It’s safe to say that it is my favorite dessert out there! So I have lots of different cheesecake recipes for you to try including this New York cheesecake, this no-bake key lime cheesecake, and this insanely delicious death by chocolate cheesecake!...

Air fryer frozen meatballs are easy and delicious and taste as fresh as if you made them from scratch! Try these out if you are in need of a quick delightful meal… your family will love them! It’s no secret how much I love my air fryer. And cooking up frozen foods in it has been a game-changer! Try out some more easy and delicious frozen food cooked up in the air fryer like these fries, these fish sticks, and these pizza rolls!...

Get all the deliciousness of deep-fried Oreos without the mess or calories in this quick and easy air fryer Oreos recipe! It only takes 3 ingredients to make them and they’ll have the whole family hooked! Using an air fryer is the easiest way to bring all the flavor of a county fair right to your kitchen! Air fryer corndogs, onion rings, and fried pickles are all quick and tasty snacks you’ll have to try this summer!...

What sets this sauce apart from your run-of-the-mill, basic Apple Sauce recipes? Starting with a caramel rather than just mixing sugar into the sauce. The result is a distinctly deeper, richer flavour in return for very little extra effort! This is a bonus recipe (along with Vermouth Jus, also a bonus recipe!) for a sauce to accompany Crispy Slow Roasted Pork Belly, the main recipe for today. The sauce is straightforward as they come, so I’m keeping it short and sweet!...

This is the mushroom version of the Beef and Chicken Vegetable Ramen Noodles which have rapidly become firm reader favourites! “We can never have enough ramen noodle recipes!” Asian Mushroom Ramen Noodles Instant ramen is economical, versatile and quick to prepare. But if you’re thinking of plonking it into a saucepan with the packet seasoning mix and adding some chopped veggies – STOP! You can make that ramen taste so much better – with very little effort....

This Bacon Broccoli Cheese Arancini is a fun and unique appetizer fit for starting any delicious meal at home. Much easier than you would think and bursting with flavor. If you haven’t heard of arancini, don’t feel bad! You’re not alone. I recently was at one of my favorite restaurants and saw “arancini” listed on the appetizer menu and of course had to google it to find out exactly what it was....

I like to BAKE my tacos to crisp the shells and melt the cheese before piling on the fresh toppings. Because melted cheese wins over unmelted cheese every day! Totally un-authentic Beef Taco Recipe! You will never find ground beef / mince tacos in Mexico. Authentic beef tacos are either sliced seared steaks (like Carne Asada), or marinated beef chopped into thin strips that are pan fried to get golden crispy edges (taqueria style), or slow-cooked and shredded into sauce like this Shredded Beef Mexican Beef and Beef Barbacoa....

Beef and Cabbage soup is so hearty and filled with beef and tons of amazing and tender veggies. This soup is healthy and delicious and full of flavor! Beef and Cabbage Soup We have had quite the mild winter here in Utah. Hardly any snow! And last week, we got dumped with snow. And I am talking about 16 inches of snow up at our house. We live close to the mountains and tend to get more snow at our house....

For a hit of protein, add some prawns/shrimp or shredded chicken. And we can pretend that finishing with a sprinkle of bacon is optional…. Potato and Broccoli Soup This is a thick and creamy soup with potato and broccoli that you’d swear has a bucket of cream in it, but it doesn’t have a single drop. It’s hearty, comforting, tastes rich and indulgent but is in fact relatively healthy with just 405 calories for a VERY big bowl!...

Serving it in a bread bowl is optional…. but it’s a terrific way to serve it!! CHEESE AND BACON DIP – IN A BREAD BOWL! I will never forget the first time I had dip in a bread bowl. I was 12, and it was a a retro Soup Mix French Onion dip. I ate so much darn dip and the bread bowl, I sat in the corner like an overstuffed Oompa Loompa while everyone else played party games....

It dawned on me the other week that I haven’t shared a fun recipe in quite a while. “Fun” being things like bite size French Toast Bites (have you tried them?? They’re fabulous – and fast!), Mini Potato Gratin Stacks, Mini Pizzas made in Garlic Bread Cups. That sort of thing. Tasty, fun food. And these Cheeseburger Party Meatballs are the first thing that popped into my mind when I found a packet of beef mince in the fridge....