This Instant Pot beef and barley soup recipe is healthy, super easy to make, and tastes like it cooked all day. There’s nothing like a comforting, hot bowl of soup on a fall evening. Add a few slices of homemade bread and you’ve got yourself the best autumn comfort meal. Leftovers reheat great so portion some out to take to work for yummy lunches!
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This easy homemade bread recipe uses bread flour, instant yeast, Kosher salt, and room temperature water. It’s very simple to make and will fill your house with the most wonderful bread smell! This bread is perfect as a side for soups and stews, to eat with butter or jam as a snack, and for sandwiches.
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This easy peanut butter cookie recipe uses just one mixing bowl and makes two dozen cookies. The key to making these cookies perfect is to chill the dough for 2-3 hours before cooking. Be patient! It’s worth the wait.
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This easy chicken and broccoli casserole uses rotisserie chicken and is full of delicious egg noodles. It’s a perfect comfort food, easy weeknight dinner, as well as a make-ahead. You can freeze it too! It’s as versatile as it is delicious. Leftovers reheat really well, too. Just pop a piece in the microwave and it tastes as fresh as it did when it came out of the oven.
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This oven roasted pork shoulder recipe makes the most flavorful, melt in your mouth pork roast. Take the time to make the simple rosemary, garlic, and anchovy paste and let the roast absorb the flavors in advance of cooking. Then simply sear the roast at 450 degrees for 30 minutes, then let it slow cook at 250 degrees for 6-8 hours, depending on the size of the roast. Your house will smell amazing and you will be rewarded with the juiciest, most flavorful meat you can imagine.
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Instant pot chicken stock is a game changer. I love those rotisserie chickens from Coscto and they make the BEST chicken stock! Save the carcass! Make stock! It’s sooooo good. I promise you won’t be disappointed and it’s so, so easy to do. Back in the day it took all day to boil a carcass to get some good stock. Now you can make instant pot chicken stock with just one hour of cooking time!
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This blueberry lemon loaf cake is light and moist, and chock full of blueberries. The lemon glaze is made with confectioner’s sugar, freshly squeezed lemon juice, and a bit of lemon zest. The glaze is sweet yet tart and compliments the cake so well. It’s also super easy to make and goes perfectly at breakfast, brunch, afternoon snack, or dessert.
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Slow cooker sesame garlic chicken that tastes like take-out? Yes, please. The chicken breast slow cooks all day and absorbs all the flavors of mirin, sesame, soy sauce, brown sugar, and garlic. The chicken is pull-apart tender when finished and the sauce tastes amazing. I love to put the slow cooker sesame garlic chicken over rice and serve it with some steamed broccoli but you can eat it on its own or even over some noodles.
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