Is there anything better than the smell of fresh cookies wafting through the house on any given day? It immediately gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling and a sense of comfort. There is just something about a homemade cookie that just gives me all of the cozy vibes. While I don’t consider myself an avid baker, I do have a few tricks up my sleeve when it comes to basic baking like cookies, banana breads, muffins, etc. You won’t find me doing anything elaborate in the baking department, but what I do bake is usually pretty darn tasty. For me, a cookie that is irresistible is one that has a little sweet and salty aspect to it. Whether that means it is sprinkled with a little sea salt on top, or has some savory element mixed into the cookie, I just find it to be the perfect cookie combo. That’s why I created these 6-ingredient peanut butter pretzel chocolate chip cookies that combine everything I adore about cookies into one recipe.
We only have a few more weeks of summer and I have mixed feelings about it all. I mean let’s be honest, in Texas we have about three more months of summer weather, but with every new season there is a shift. I am hanging on to low key dinner nights, grilling in the backyard, sounds of water splashing in the kiddie pool behind me, and not having too much of an agenda. So that’s what we are going do for these last weeks of summer. Let’s savor it all with a fun twist on a classic recipe that I grew up eating. Low country boils are popular in the south and are typically served up on a warm summer day spread out on newspapers and enjoyed with cold beers. But because not everyone has a ginormous pot hanging around and an outside burner, I am taking those same nostalgic flavors and making them easy enough for anyone to whip up any night of the week. This recipe for low country boil skewers is going to be your new favorite grilling recipe and you are going to love just how easy they are to make.
Salads for dinner are something that we have at our house at least twice a week. I know most people think salads can be a little boring, but I always make it my goal to make them hearty and full of flavor. Lately I have been obsessing over my cobb salad, and recently I have fallen in love again with my crispy baked buffalo chicken salad. This is a salad that I make anytime I get a craving for buffalo anything. It is a healthier meal idea that is super satisfying and can be made quickly any night of the week. This recipe for crispy baked buffalo chicken salad is one that will have you excited for salads at dinnertime over and over again.
This post is sponsored by Tony Chachere’s, but all opinions are 100% my own.
Summertime means lots of grilling is happening at my house for a couple of reasons. Number one, grilling means not having to turn on the oven or the stove on when its scorching outside, and number two, grilling makes clean up a breeze when you don’t have dishes to wash after the meal is done. Need I say more? I partnered with Tony Chachere’s to bring you a super simple, but out of this world tasty recipe that you are going to want to make all season long. Grilled sausages get sandwiched between a perfectly grilled bun and topped with a Cajun corn salsa to create the ultimate summer grilled sausage dog. I can guarantee that this recipe for grilled sausage dogs with Cajun corn salsa is going to make you do a happy dance with every single bite.
Popsicles and summertime are the perfect pair. I cannot remember a summertime memory that didn’t include lots of popsicles growing up. Warm summer days where we played outside all day and then came home to an ice cold popsicle with a few extra tan lines was just the best. We definitely did not grow up with homemade popsicles however, but did have a freezer stocked with the push up kind that come in plastic and about 100 to a pack (and I bet you did too!) And while I still to this day love those pops, I love making homemade popsicles as well. You wouldn’t believe how easy it is to make your own popsicles and honestly you can make them whatever flavor and ingredients that you prefer and have on hand. This recipe for vanilla cantaloupe popsicles has quickly become a new favorite around our house and couldn’t be any easier to make.
When it comes to making ice cream at home, I am a huge fan. I love that I get to control the ingredients and that there are so many possibilities for flavor combinations. I am typically a chocolate in my ice cream kind of girl, but I think this recipe made with blueberries might have just convinced me otherwise. I took everything I love about a blueberry crumble in the summertime and turned it into an ice cream that is out of this world. I added the slightest hint of lavender and it just pairs perfectly with the blueberries for a subtle background flavor and gets combined with little bites of crumble pieces that are spread throughout each bite of ice cream. The combination is truly amazing. This recipe for blueberry lavender crumble ice cream is going to quickly become a new favorite summer ice cream flavor, I can almost guarantee!
