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This Herb and Salt-Rubbed Dry Brined Turkey comes out so moist and flavorful, with crispy golden skin and juicy tender meat.
Want an easy turkey recipe that’s moist and flavorful? Try dry brining! Rather than wet brining a turkey, dry brining is so much easier and less messy!
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Easy English Trifle is a light, delectable, sweet treat. It’s so easy and so delicate and beautiful. Make sure you spotlight this fanciful dessert in a clear bowl, for all to see it’s luscious layers.
Everyone loves dessert! And when they’re easy it’s even better. Try some of these other easy desserts the next time you need a quick treat. Easy Tiramisu, Easy Brown Butter Almond Cake, or Easy Crème Brulee
Who knew that such simple ingredients could become such a stunning dessert. Clearly it’s treat not just for the taste buds, but for the eyes as well with it’s beautiful layers. I love the addition of cream cheese to the heavy cream, it adds such richness and tang. It’s a perfect combination with the pudding and fruit.
English Trifle is often used at special occasions and festivities, especially holiday season. It’s so easy and beautiful you can make it whenever you get the craving. Buying already made pound cake is the secret to its easiness. You can have this ready in no time for that special event!
Trifles date back to the late 1500’s in England. The word “trifle” is defined as “a thing of little value or importance.” This dessert probably came about from tossing leftovers into a bowl to be used up and wasn’t anything of super importance. This fun whimsical dessert now has a rich history that has evolved over the centuries to become a favorite all over the world. With all of it’s varieties and flavors this is truly a dessert to try over and over again.
Simple elegance is what I call this dish!
Super easy and so yummy! You can use frozen or fresh pound cake. You can even make your own if you wish. Regular cake can be used as well, but because it’s less dense it will get soggy faster.
This is such a fun dish to mix things up however you desire! This is your basic trifle, feel free to mix up flavors and fruit as you see fit.
Turkey Pot Pie with Stuffing Crust is a fun twist on a turkey pot pie, made with diced turkey and veggies simmered in a creamy sauce and finished with a stuffing topping.
This Turkey Pot Pie with Stuffing Crust is a great way to get your favorite Thanksgiving foods in one meal. Plus, it’s perfect for using up leftover turkey. A mix of turkey and vegetables in a creamy sauce is covered with stuffing and baked until the crust is golden. For some other ways to use Thanksgiving turkey, try my Leftover Turkey Pot Pie Empanadas, Open-Faced Turkey Melts, and Baked Turkey Croquettes.
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AddInstant Pot Mac and Cheese is a game changer. Ready in less then 15 minutes with the same level of cheesy creaminess that we all love but with half the effort and time.
Making Mac and cheese is a favorite in our home! Try these delicious ways of creating a cheesy pasta with these fun recipes: Baked Macaroni and Cheese, Slow Cooker Macaroni and Cheese or Mac and Cheese Cups.
Who else agrees that the Instant Pot is the future? Its hands down my favorite kitchen gadget especially when it comes to easy, one pot recipes like this mac and cheese. You won’t believe how hands free this recipe is. It’s literally dump and cook which is how I wish dinner would be every single day.
Everybody loves a good mac and cheese but every mac and cheese is not made the same. This one has everything right — pasta cooked to perfection, creamy cheese sauce without any floury aftertaste, flavor, flavor, flavor and its ready in less time than it takes to boil pasta!
We have all the usual suspects for mac and cheese plus a little extra to make this taste really really good.
Here’s a complete list of what you’ll need:
It starts with dumping everything except the cream and cheese in the Instant Pot. We want most of the pasta to be submerged in the liquid to help it cook well. And then the Instant Pot does its thing.
After a lot of testing, we’ve figured that short pasta takes 4 minutes to cook with immediate manual pressure release. Any longer and the pasta starts to over cook. I bet this is one dinner that’ll make everyone happy. Trust me when I say, you’ll never make mac and cheese any other way again!
We’ve eaten a lot of mac and cheese in our time, and tested many many bowls in the Instant Pot, and here are our top tips for the best bowl of comfort food:
This holiday season enjoy a lighter, healthier version of the classic green bean casserole recipe made from scratch with no canned soup.
You will love this modern take on the classic! The perfect side dish to accompany your Thanksgiving Turkey along with all the fixins like Sweet Potato Casserole, Cranberry Sauce, Stuffing and Mashed Potatoes. You can see all my Thanksgiving recipes here.
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White Chocolate Cranberry Macadamia Cookies are the perfect combination, of chewy, crunchy, sweet and decadence all wrapped up in a cookie! These amazing cookies have great texture and flavor!
Macadamia nuts are the hidden gem in these cookies. For more recipes that are created at them in these other recipes like this Chili Macadamia Crusted Tilapia, Macadamia Key Lime Pie and Pineapple Cheesecake Dessert Bars.
The cookie base itself is perfection! It is perfectly chewy. And surprisingly enough, I LOVED the cranberry! It wasn’t overpowering but gave the cookie enough cranberry flavor. My first bite was so amazing. The cookie was still warm and the chocolate was still melty. I had four! UGH. Why did these cookies have to be so incredible? All I want is another.
These scrumptious cookies have the holidays written all over them. The red from the cranberry, and white from the chocolate and then there’s the flavor! The sweetness of the white chocolate balances out perfectly with the tartness of the cranberries and the macadamia nuts add ideal crunch for impeccable taste and texture.
These are just as easy as any cookie recipe, but they taste fancy! White Chocolate Cranberry Macadamia cookies will be the little darlings of all your Holiday festivities, cookie exchanges and anytime you are craving something delicious. Everyone is going to love this flavor combo.
Cranberry. Do you love it or hate it? I am personally on the fence with cranberries. It probably wouldn’t be the first thing I grab at a Thanksgiving dinner. But these cookies. BEST.COOKIES.EVER. And yes I just yelled that because I just got done eating four!
Perfectly chewy cookies packed with white chocolate, cranberries, and macadamia nuts!
These are so good, if you have leftovers you’re going to want to keep them around. These will stay soft and chewy when sealed in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks. You can also store in an airtight ziplock, make sure to cool completely so they don’t sweat.
You can freeze these cookies two ways:
White chocolate is creamy and sweet and pairs so well in these dessert recipe!
Perfectly fluffy and tender on the inside, crispy on the outside, these Air Fryer Sweet Potatoes are going to rock your world! They are so creamy inside it’s amazing. Just add your favorite topping and you’ll have a new favorite way to eat these delicious sweet potatoes.
You can top them with just about anything you desire. Sweet potatoes go good with both sweet and spicy, try Honey Butter, Cinnamon Honey Butter or for a spicy treat Skillet Queso.
Baking sweet potatoes just got easier with the use of an Air Fryer. Sweet potatoes come out perfectly and will be a great addition to any meal.
Cooking them in the Air Fryer allows the skin to get nice and crispy which is so good. You don’t have to peel them either. It’s so quick and easy. You can use this method of cooking to prep your sweet potatoes for just about any recipe you need.
Not very many ingredients for this flavorful side. It makes it an easy side dish to make with any meal.
These are so easy, it doesn’t take much effort to serve up a healthy side dish.
Sweet potatoes are not only yummy they are good for you too!
These are really easy and hard to mess up!
Sweet potatoes are so versatile, you can do so many things with these healthy tasty spuds.
