Copycat Olive Garden Breadsticks

These copycat Olive Garden breadsticks are light, airy, soft, and fluffy, just like the ones you can't stop eating from the restaurant. 

What is the first thing you think of when someone mentions Olive Garden? Of course, their amazing breadsticks! 

Sour Cherry Muffins with Coconut Streusel

These sour cherry muffins are filled with delicious sour cherries and topped with an amazing coconut streusel. 

 

If you're a fan of fruit-filled muffins, you will love these sour cherry muffins. 

Chicken Chilaquiles

These chicken chilaquiles are sort of like inside out enchiladas. They are so good, especially for breakfast. 

"What are chilaquiles?" There are several interpretations of this Mexican dish, but they are typically fried tortilla wedges tossed in red or green sauce as well as shredded chicken or chorizo.

Lime Cake with Lime Cream Cheese Frosting

This lime cake is infused with lime zest and lime juice. It's then topped with a tasty lime cream cheese frosting.

 

 

This lime cake is so easy to make too. You can make this cake in the afternoon to serve at dinner that night. It's delicious for dessert or for a mid-afternoon snack. The frosting is both sweet and tart, and is super creamy. 

Air Fryer Lamb Chops with Roasted Carrots and Mustard Thyme Sauce

These tender and juicy lamb chops with roasted carrots are glazed with a honey, mustard, garlic, and thyme sauce after quickly roasting them in an air fryer. 

This delicious recipe feeds two or three, depending on your appetite and the size of your lamb chops. 

Ticinese Minestrone

This Ticinese minestrone is from the Swiss canton of Ticino, the Italian part of Switzerland. It's hearty, filling, and nutritious. 

While every Ticinese home cook has their version of minestrone, common threads in the recipes seem to include beans, smoked bacon (and bacon rind to flavor the broth), savoy cabbage, sun dried tomatoes, and a combination of arborio rice with potatoes. 

Olive Oil Wreath Bread

This olive oil wreath bread makes a wonderful and flavorful pull-apart bread. Perfect for the center of your table. 

This bread is flavored with fruity extra virgin olive oil, shaped into a ring, and then cut with scissors as you would a pain de èpi. 

Moroccan Shrimp Tagine with Garlic, Ginger, and Fennel

This shrimp tagine with garlic, ginger, and fennel is an amazingly flavorful dish. Shrimp lovers (and who isn't?) will demand that you make this over and over again. 

This easy shrimp tagine is a great way to explore the flavors of Morocco without having to spend a huge amount of time in the kitchen. 

Whole Wheat Cinnamon Raisin Bread

This whole wheat cinnamon raisin bread brings the classic flavors of cinnamon raisin bread to a 100% whole wheat dough. 

Along with whole wheat flour, this bread includes raisins, toasted pecans, as well as cinnamon both in the dough and in a swirl you can see in each slice. 

Telera Rolls

These telera rolls are a soft flat sandwich roll with a thin crispy crust. They are perfect for tortas (Mexican sandwiches). 

 

Along with the bolillo, which resembles the shape of a baguette, pan telera is a popular sandwich roll for making tortas. 

Tomato, Basil, & Garlic Filled Bread (Pane Bianco)

This tomato, basil, and garlic cheese bread, or pane bianco, is a wonderful soft, cheesy, and flavorful loaf. 

This bread, besides being pretty darn stunning, is soft, garlicky, cheesy, and tasty. It will kind of remind you of the flavors of pizza in a soft bread. 

Pepper Jack Pimento Cheese

This pepper jack pimento cheese is so easy to put together and will pretty much become your favorite go-to cheesy snack. 

I've spent my entire life in California, so I was tardy to the pimento cheese party. In fact, I have yet to have actually tried it other than my own experiments with pimento cheese. I've never seen it on a menu in any restaurant. 

Pasta Salad with Roasted Carrots and Kale

This pasta salad with roasted carrots, kale, sunflower seeds, and Parmesan cheese will become your new favorite pasta salad. 

The dressing for this pasta salad is so tasty! The ingredients in the dressing are so unexpected too! 

Crumb Buns (Yeasted Coffee Cake Buns)

These crumb buns, topped with a giant amount of delicious streusel, are the most amazing way to dress up a sweet and rich yeasted dough for the perfect coffee cake treat. 

 

These buns are a streusel lover's dream. There is so much streausel on these buns that you might not realize that there are actual rolls underneath.