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Easy Vanilla Peach Muffins
This easy peach muffin recipe is quick to make and yields muffins with a moist, tender center bursting with juicy peaches and a perfectly golden-brown top. I leave the skins on my peaches, and don’t mind the texture. If you’d like to peel your peaches, I provide tips in this peach cobbler recipe. This recipe makes eight large, big-topped muffins, ten standard muffins, or 20 to 22 mini muffins.
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Easy Lemon Blueberry Muffins
My family loves these lemon blueberry muffins so much! The trick to the best lemon flavor is making our simple lemon sugar! When baking this recipe, you can make 10 standard-size muffins or fill the cups a bit more and make 8 larger muffins with big, beautiful bakery-style tops. (I’ve also included tips for mini muffins in the recipe below!). When measuring the flour for these muffins, either weigh it or use the “spoon and level” method shared in our tips section below.
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Cinnamon Pancakes
My family loves this cinnamon pancake recipe. Since cinnamon rolls inspire them, the batter adds a whole tablespoon of cinnamon, and then we top the cooked pancakes with a sweet cream cheese glaze.
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Quinoa Perfectly
This easy stovetop quinoa recipe is what did it for me. The quinoa cooks up to be light and fluffy without being mushy or bitter. Use water or add more flavor with broth. I love this veggie broth or homemade chicken broth. While the stovetop is my preferred method, since sharing this recipe and a few reader requests, we have added three more methods for cooking quinoa below: in the microwave, Instant Pot, and a rice cooker.
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Fluffy Buckwheat Pancakes
These buckwheat pancakes are light and fluffy and made entirely from scratch. They’re not too sweet and are scented with vanilla, making them extra delicious. I highly recommend our blend of buckwheat flour and all-purpose flour (or GF all-purpose flour). The blend will make fluffier, more tender pancakes. As the pancake batter sits, the buckwheat flour absorbs the moisture in the batter, so you might notice that it gets a bit thicker than you’d like to pour into your skillet. If this happens to you, add a tablespoon (or more) of milk to thin it out again.
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Easy Hard Boiled Eggs
Here’s our foolproof stovetop hard boiled eggs recipe. The recipe assumes four eggs, but you can increase or decrease them as you see fit (as long as the eggs can sit in the saucepan in one layer).
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Easy Poached Eggs
This is our easy recipe for poached eggs. You can poach as many eggs as you need to. If you poach multiple eggs at a time, try not to crowd the water. It might be better to make more than one batch. Fresh eggs work best for this since they hold their shape better than older eggs. Think of the vinegar as a fail-safe. It helps to firm the whites and keep their shape. If you do not want to add it, you can still make poached eggs without it.
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Easy Energy Balls
These easy no-bake energy balls are quick to make, call for simple ingredients, and are one of my go-to homemade energy bites! Use our recipe below as a guide. Many of the ingredients can be substituted (for example, quick oats for rolled oats or flaxseed meal for chia seeds). You can also add some extra ingredients based on your needs. Protein powder, for example, is a nice addition (I’d use 1 to 2 scoops).
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Easy Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
This is my favorite method for roasting pumpkin seeds. The secret is simmering your pumpkin seeds in salted water for 5 minutes before roasting, which helps to clean and season them. Before roasting, pat them dry, otherwise, they will not brown or crisp.
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Perfect Cinnamon Rolls
The method for making this cinnamon roll recipe is inspired by a popular trick for making brioche dough in a food processor, shared by talented chefs including James Beard, Julia Child, and Jack Pepin. The food processor takes the prep time down considerably. You can make as many rolls as you like, depending on the size of your baking dish. As written, this recipe makes 6 large rolls. See our tips below the recipe for a guide on making 9 medium or 12 smaller cinnamon rol
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Quick Easy Chocolate Croissants
For these easier chocolate croissants, we use a store-bought puff pastry sheet instead of making our croissant dough at home. Puff pastry needs to be thawed before being used in our recipe. I take my sheet out of the freezer, place it onto a plate, cover it with plastic wrap, and let it sit in the fridge for a few hours. You can also thaw at room temperature for 40 to 50 minutes.
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Easy Avocado Egg Salad
Avocado egg salad takes classic egg salad up a notch. Serve this on salad, in wraps, or make avocado egg salad sandwiches! If you do not like mayonnaise, leave it out or substitute it with plain yogurt.
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Easy Soft Flour Tortillas
How to make flour tortillas that are soft, pliable, and perfect for folding or wrapping. Our recipe for the best homemade tortillas uses a few tricks. Dissolving the salt in the warm water helps season the dough. I especially recommend doing this if you are using coarser salt. Rolling the tortillas very thin and dialing in the heat of your pan guarantees bubbles, which create that perfect texture (our video shows just how large these bubbles can be).
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Easy Strawberry Smoothie
This strawberry banana smoothie is so creamy and fruity. Depending on how ripe or sweet your fruit is, you may need to add a little extra honey, so add based on your taste.
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Perfect Homemade Applesauce
This easy applesauce recipe makes the kitchen smell incredible and tastes much better than anything you can buy at the store. Use apples that you enjoy eating. We particularly love using crisp, sweet apples when making applesauce and generally do not add any sweetener. If you feel the applesauce needs some extra sweetness, add a sweetener to taste at the end of cooking. We recommend brown sugar, maple syrup, or honey.
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Brown Sugar Roasted Strawberries
Roasted strawberries are shockingly good. As they roast, the flavor of the berries cooks down and concentrates. Use this recipe with ripe strawberries for incredible flavor, or use it to enhance less desirable strawberries! These make a fantastic dessert with some whipped cream, but I also love them in the morning added to my everyday oatmeal or Greek yogurt.
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