This easy recipe for Brown Butter Ginger Molasses Cookies is a delicious twist on a classic gingersnap. These cookies are chewy in the middle, crispy on the outside, have a mild spice and an intense buttery flavor. These are my ultimate holiday cookies! I’ve been a cookie baking machine lately. Isn’t everyone this time of year?
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Everything Bagel Pull Apart Bread with Scallion Cream Cheese
This recipe for Everything Bagel Pull Apart Bread with Scallion Cream Cheese is buttery, rich, flavorful and perfect for brunch! I’ve been wanting to make one of these pull apart breads for as long as I’ve been seeing them all over the internet (which is really a very long time).
5 Ingredient Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Cookies
This recipe for 5 Ingredient Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Cookies is CRAZY easy to make and just happens to be naturally dairy and gluten free! Happy December! The month just started and I’ve already been a cookie baking machine. Just wait and see what I have in store for you guys! I’m really excited, as evidenced…
Coley’s Favorite Things: My 2018 Holiday Gift Guide
It’s that time of year again!! You know, the time when you’re supposed to be buying gifts for everyone else even though you can’t stop finding things you want to buy for yourself. Just me? Didn’t think so. 💁🏻♀️
Cauliflower Gratin
This baked Cauliflower Gratin is an easy, cheesy, make-ahead side dish that’s great for serving a crowd. A perfect recipe for the holidays! I had every intention of getting this recipe out to you before Thanksgiving, but then, well, it didn’t happen. Did your Thanksgiving suffer as a result? I highly doubt it.
Currently… (#3)
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Pear + Leek Galette with Goat Cheese + Walnuts
This Pear + Leek Galette with Goat Cheese + Walnuts is a simple, savory free-form tart that makes a perfect Thanksgiving appetizer. We’re less than a week away from Thanksgiving, and let me just say, I CAN’T WAIT. I’m not doing much of the cooking this year, which is essentially the same as every year….
Cranberry Meyer Lemon Pie with Gingersnap Crust
This gorgeous Cranberry Meyer Lemon Pie with gingersnap crust is a show-stopping holiday dessert that’s perfect for Thanksgiving. It’s like Key Lime Pie, but better! STOP THE PRESSES. This Cranberry Meyer Lemon Pie is the pie to beat all other pies this Thanksgiving (sorry Grandma). It’s a brilliant twist on key lime pie that will…
Butternut Squash Fritters with Spiced Yogurt
This easy recipe for Butternut Squash Fritters with Spiced Yogurt makes a unique and addictive appetizer or side dish for Thanksgiving. You guys, Thanksgiving is just TWO WEEKS AWAY! Are you ready? Have you even started thinking about it yet? Do you even care? (Rhetorical question.)
Roasted Shrimp Cocktail with Whole Grain Mustard Sauce
This recipe for Roasted Shrimp Cocktail with Whole Grain Mustard sauce is an easy and elegant twist on the classic. This post has been sponsored by Maille. All opinions are my own. Everyone needs a solid go-to party recipe. A recipe that isn’t complicated to make, but always impresses; A recipe that can be made…
Ricotta Pear Cake with Rosemary + Orange
This simple Ricotta Pear Cake is light, moist, and scented with warm rosemary and orange. It’s loaded with fresh seasonal pears and is perfect for a cozy fall evening at home. Welcome to November, or pie baking month as it’s known in my family. I’ve said it time and time again, we are pie people…
Easy Smoked Salmon Puff Pastry Tart
This Easy Smoked Salmon Puff Pastry Tart is a delicious appetizer or brunch recipe made with frozen puff pastry and Traditional Smoked Wild Alaskan Sockeye Salmon. This recipe has been sponsored by Wild For Salmon. Use promo code “coley20” at checkout to receive 20% off your order! As always, all opinions are 100% my own. I’ve…
Currently… (#2)
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Apple Almond Shortbread Bars
These Apple Almond Shortbread Bars are intensely buttery, not too sweet and loaded with apples. This recipe is super easy and perfect for fall! I can’t believe it’s October already, and I can’t believe I say that every single year. This summer FLEW, and it didn’t help that this was one of the rainiest, crappiest…
Lobster Corn Chowder
This recipe for lobster corn chowder is the perfect way to usher in fall. It’s rich, flavorful and loaded with big chunks of lobster meat. Chowder is a humble soup. It’s essentially peasant food for fishermen, made with inexpensive cuts of fish or shellfish (you know, like clams) and whatever odds and ends are laying…
Pasta with Olives, Anchovies, Tomatoes + Breadcrumbs
This easy and flavorful recipe for Pasta with Olives, Anchovies, Tomatoes + Breadcrumbs is made with mostly pantry ingredients and can be on the table in under 20 minutes. This post has been sponsored by ShopRite Supermarkets. All thoughts and opinions are my own. When you haven’t gone grocery shopping in weeks and the fridge…
Brown Sugar Plum Clafoutis
This recipe for Brown Sugar Plum Clafoutis is an easy and elegant classic French dessert made with seasonal fresh fruit and plenty of eggs. I also include an option for using duck eggs! Clafoutis is a classic French dessert that sounds uber-fancy, but it’s actually one of the easiest things you can make. Truth! A…
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Italian Tuna + Green Bean Salad
This recipe for Italian Tuna and Green Bean Salad is incredibly simple to make. It only has 7 basic ingredients and makes a tasty and healthy meal! In my previous post, I talked about how salmon used to be the only fish I disliked, but in hindsight that wasn’t exactly true. There was another fish…
Cedar Planked Wild Salmon with Peach + Tomato Salsa
This gorgeous late-summer recipe for Cedar Planked Wild Salmon with Tomato Peach Salsa makes for a simple and flavorful grilled dinner. This post has been sponsored by Wild for Salmon. All opinions are my own. True confession: Up until recently, I wasn’t a huge fan of salmon. It was my least favorite fish, or better put,…
Eggplant Caponata
Eggplant Caponata is a classic Sicilian dish made with eggplant, olives, tomatoes, celery and lots of other flavorful ingredients. It’s a cooked salad or relish with a sweet and sour flavor, known as “agrodolce” in Italian. My garden is exploding with eggplant right now, which is funny, because it’s just about the only thing it’s…
Raw Corn + Nectarine Salad
This recipe for Raw Corn + Nectarine Salad is dead simple to make, but packed with sweet summer flavor. Think you can’t eat corn raw? When it’s exceptionally fresh and in-season, there’s no better way to enjoy it. Where do you live? Do they have great corn there? The answer is probably yes.
Lyonnaise Salad
This classic recipe for Lyonnaise Salad is an easy and delicious salad that’s filling enough to have as a meal. This post has been sponsored by Eggland’s Best. All opinions are my own. I’ve always been a sucker for the classics. There’s something deeply comforting about a dish that’s been in rotation longer than I’ve…
Grandma’s Blueberry Pie
This recipe for my grandma’s blueberry pie is a summer staple in our house. It’s simple and pure, just like my grandma made it, and really lets the blueberries shine. A few weeks ago we surprised my grandma for her 80th birthday. We threw a small family barbecue at my Aunt Ang’s house and everyone…
Citrus Herb Grilled Shrimp
This quick and easy recipe for Citrus Herb Grilled Shrimp is an insanely delicious flavor-packed summer meal. This post has been sponsored by Vinho Verde Wines. All opinions are my own. Nothing says summer like grilled seafood. Not only is it light and flavorful, it’s also one of the easiest things you can throw together…
Nicole Gaffney, aka Coley, is a professionally trained chef, recipe developer, tv host and food writer.