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Appetizers

This recipe for smoky grilled potato wedges is a fun and flavorful alternative to French fries that compliments any grilled meal!

Smoky Grilled Potato Wedges

We have struggled with making good classic sliders at home, but these bacon skillet sliders with homemade thousand island dressing are getting it RIGHT.

Bacon Skillet Sliders

Sweet & savory, with salty bacon, tart apples, & sharp cheesy goodness - Apple Bacon Mac and Cheese is the easy comfort food recipe you've been looking for!

Apple Bacon Mac and Cheese

Forget the canned stuff and whip up a flavorful, homemade spiced cranberry sauce with pecans and raisins this Thanksgiving - in about 15 minutes!

Spiced Cranberry Sauce with Pecans

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Bars, Blondies, & Brownies

Chocolate Swirled Gingerbread Cake

These swirled pumpkin cheesecake brownies are fun, festive, and easy to make! Not too sweet, with a subtle pumpkin flavor, let the kiddos help whip them up!

Swirled Pumpkin Cheesecake Brownies

If you’re one of those autumn enthusiasts who just can’t wait to get fall started, then this recipe for Pumpkin Spice Bars was made for you!

Pumpkin Spice Bars

S’more Brownie Bites

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Beef

Busy family? This One Pan Spanish Rice Bake is for you. Other than the produce, it's a pantry meal, and it also comes together in a single pot!

“Pantry to the Rescue” One Pan Spanish Rice Bake

We have struggled with making good classic sliders at home, but these bacon skillet sliders with homemade thousand island dressing are getting it RIGHT.

Bacon Skillet Sliders

Bobby Flay put his spin on an otherwise traditional burger by adding grilled onions, horseradish mustard, and two cheeses - the double cheddar burger!

Double Cheddar Burger with Grilled Onions & Horseradish Mustard

Sometimes you need your pantry to come to the rescue at dinnertime, and that's exactly what it can do with this easy, flexible chicken tortilla pie recipe!

“Pantry to the Rescue” Chicken Tortilla Pie

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Beverages

Chocolate Covered Blueberry Protein Smoothie

Feeling like you've outgrown your average hot cocoa? Make yourself some grown up hot chocolate from scratch with cocoa, vanilla, salt, milk, and cream!

Grown Up Hot Chocolate

Craving a chocolate shake, but want to avoid the calories? We've got you covered with this healthy chocolate peanut butter shake. Try adding protein, too!

Healthy Chocolate Peanut Butter Shake

What's creamy, tasty, and healthy, made with nonfat frozen yogurt and delicious Oregon blackberries? This Orange & Ginger Blackberry Smoothie!

Orange & Ginger Blackberry Smoothie

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Breads

This recipe for sweet corn & thyme cornbread cake is simple, perfect for fall, & rather unexpected...because it's a dessert, topped with lemon curd & honey!

Sweet Corn & Thyme Cornbread Cake

Make it with fresh berries or frozen - either way, this blueberry coffee cake is an easy, slightly indulgent way to start any morning!

Blueberry Coffee Cake

Easy, fresh, bright, sweet, & creamy, this Strawberries & Cream Overnight French Toast features frozen Oregon berries so you can make it all year long!

Strawberries & Cream Overnight French Toast

This baked cranberry orange croissant French toast is one of those dishes that comes out gourmet-looking and sophisticated, but is actually absurdly simple!

Cranberry Orange Croissant French Toast

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Breakfast

Make it with fresh berries or frozen - either way, this blueberry coffee cake is an easy, slightly indulgent way to start any morning!

Blueberry Coffee Cake

Gracie whips up these pancakes nearly every Friday morning - they're easy, quick, fluffy, and delectable. They're Friday Morning Pancakes!

Grace’s Friday Morning Pancakes

Chocolate Covered Blueberry Protein Smoothie

Easy, fresh, bright, sweet, & creamy, this Strawberries & Cream Overnight French Toast features frozen Oregon berries so you can make it all year long!

Strawberries & Cream Overnight French Toast

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Burgers & Sandwiches

These tangy, tasty buffalo chicken burgers are a serious taste explosion – just make sure you’ve got enough mayo to go around!

Buffalo Chicken Burgers with Blue Cheese Mayo

We have struggled with making good classic sliders at home, but these bacon skillet sliders with homemade thousand island dressing are getting it RIGHT.

Bacon Skillet Sliders

Bobby Flay put his spin on an otherwise traditional burger by adding grilled onions, horseradish mustard, and two cheeses - the double cheddar burger!

Double Cheddar Burger with Grilled Onions & Horseradish Mustard

This easy recipe for BLT sliders with arugula and camp sauce is quick, flexible, and works as a main course, or a party or game day appetizer!

Easy BLT Sliders with Arugula & Camp Sauce

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Cakes

This recipe for sweet corn & thyme cornbread cake is simple, perfect for fall, & rather unexpected...because it's a dessert, topped with lemon curd & honey!

Sweet Corn & Thyme Cornbread Cake

Carrot cake is pretty amazing, but I've got a couple of ideas about how to improve it - one, lose the raisins. Two, add browned butter. Yep. Done.

Carrot Cake with Browned Butter Cream Cheese Frosting

Ice cream cake is usually a store-bought extravagance, but with this simple, elegant recipe for brownie ice cream cake, you can make it yourself!

Black and White Brownie Ice Cream Cake

This Tres Leches cake, while perfect for Cinco de Mayo (or just because), is one of those cakes that is easy to make and can also easily be made several days in advance. In fact, making it one day in advance even makes the cake taste better!

Tres Leches Cake

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Cheesecakes

These swirled pumpkin cheesecake brownies are fun, festive, and easy to make! Not too sweet, with a subtle pumpkin flavor, let the kiddos help whip them up!

Swirled Pumpkin Cheesecake Brownies

Maple Walnut Cheesecake

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Carrot Cheesecake

Pumpkin Cranberry Cheesecake

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Chicken

As back to school season sets in, baking up some of this oven barbecue chicken is a great, easy way to hang on to the flavors of summer!

Oven Barbecue Chicken

This one pan sausage dinner recipe includes lots of bright, flavorful, and healthy summer vegetables, and it's easy to prepare - just chop those veggies!

One Pan Sausage with Summer Vegetables

These tangy, tasty buffalo chicken burgers are a serious taste explosion – just make sure you’ve got enough mayo to go around!

Buffalo Chicken Burgers with Blue Cheese Mayo

For us, these easy Chicken Enchiladas are classic, one of few recipes we still make from our first year of marriage...you’ll be hooked, too!

“Pantry to the Rescue” Easy Chicken Enchiladas

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Cobblers & Crisps

Summer is here, & cobbler goes hand in hand with summer memories! Try this berries & thyme cobbler recipe for a slightly earthier take on the classic!

“Pantry to the Rescue” Berries & Thyme Cobbler

The yummy apple crisp is simple enough for a family dessert or nice enough to serve for company, but easy enough to make for a potluck or holiday hoopla!

Annie’s Apple Crisp

Cherries are in season, and this recipe for cherry vanilla crisp is an especially yummy way to celebrate that! It’s perfect paired with a bit of ice cream.

Cherry Vanilla Crisp

Old Fashioned Peach Cobbler

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Cookies

Our whole family has declared this recipe the best snickerdoodle cookies ever...or, at least, the best ones to ever enter our humble abode!

The Best Snickerdoodle Cookies Ever

Whether you need cookies for a holiday party or just because, make this easy, "improved" recipe for peanut butter chip cookies together with your kids!

Peanut Butter Chip Cookies

Whether you're actually on a paleo diet or not, these paleo chocolate chip cookies should make their way onto your dessert menu! They're just as tasty as the original, but with natural sugars and "healthy" fats, you can feel just a bit better about eating them...

Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies

Carrots, apples, oats, blueberries, cranberries, walnuts, cinnamon and a bit of brown sugar make these healthy cookies amazing & safe to for indulging!

Healthy Cookies

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Cupcakes

Kids can bake, too! 10-year-old Eden shares her experience baking and decorating these indulgently delightful Devil's Food Cupcakes from scratch!

Devil’s Food Cupcakes

Moscato Cupcakes

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Minty Espresso Brownie Cupcakes

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Sugar and Spice Cupcakes

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Doughnuts

Homemade Funfetti Donuts

Baked Red Velvet Donuts with Cream Cheese Frosting and a GIVEAWAY!

Blackberry Donuts

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Grapefruit Buttermilk Doughnuts with Candied Zest

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Ice Cream

Looking for a delectable way to close out summer? We recommend indulging in delicious Oregon berries and whipping up some blackberry lemonade ice cream!

End-of-Summer Blackberry Lemonade Ice Cream

Ice cream cake is usually a store-bought extravagance, but with this simple, elegant recipe for brownie ice cream cake, you can make it yourself!

Black and White Brownie Ice Cream Cake

Creamy, elegant, and absolutely wonderful, this recipe for homemade pistachio ice cream will be lucky to make it to the freezer before it’s gone!

Homemade Pistachio Ice Cream

Cranberry Egg Nog Smoothies

Cranberry Egg Nog Smoothies

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Jams

Wild Blueberry Lemon Sweet Rolls

Grilled Bacon Bleu Cheese & Fig Sandwiches

Slow-Cooker Chai Apple Butter

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Mini Blackberry Lime Empanadas

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Mexican

“Pantry to the Rescue” Taco Bake

This homemade Spanish rice is as easy as the boxed rice you buy at the store, more flavorful, and healthier. This is the perfect side to your taco nights.

Homemade Spanish Rice

Busy family? This One Pan Spanish Rice Bake is for you. Other than the produce, it's a pantry meal, and it also comes together in a single pot!

“Pantry to the Rescue” One Pan Spanish Rice Bake

For us, these easy Chicken Enchiladas are classic, one of few recipes we still make from our first year of marriage...you’ll be hooked, too!

“Pantry to the Rescue” Easy Chicken Enchiladas

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Pasta

These easy recipe for a quick baked spaghetti is perfect for a family meal at home, or better yet, bringing a meal to someone who needs one!

Baked Spaghetti

I've always loved the idea of macaroni salad, but never found one that excited me. This easy, preppable recipe does - for me it is the best macaroni salad!

The Best Macaroni Salad

Okay, it's not healthy, but every once in awhile you really just need butter, cream, garlic, pasta, and cheese...you need homemade fettuccine alfredo.

Homemade Fettuccine Alfredo

Trying find a way to satisfy both the carnivores and vegetarians at your table? We think this Spinach Artichoke Mac and Cheese will do the trick!

“Pantry to the Rescue” Spinach Artichoke Mac and Cheese

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Pies

This easy pumpkin custard pie is flavored with cinnamon, cloves, and allspice - which gives it all kinds of warm, fall flavors.

Easy Pumpkin Custard Pie

Sometimes you need your pantry to come to the rescue at dinnertime, and that's exactly what it can do with this easy, flexible chicken tortilla pie recipe!

“Pantry to the Rescue” Chicken Tortilla Pie

Craving the crunchiness of pie crust and the gooey sweetness of apple pie filling? Try these healthy apple pie egg rolls and skip the guilt!

Healthy Apple Pie Egg Rolls

Irish Apple Pie

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Pizza

Wanting to make your own pizza but a little intimidated by making your own dough? Try this easy, flexible recipe for pesto French bread pizza!

“Pantry to the Rescue” Pesto French Bread Pizza with Artichoke Hearts & Sun-Dried Tomatoes

Love the classic combo of steak, cheese, and fried onions? Turn that sandwich craving into pie form with this easy and quick Philly Cheesesteak Pizza!

Philly Cheesesteak Pizza

This carbonara pizza recipe is easy, quick, and inexpensive, with some strategic substitutions! Eggs, cheese, and bacon - how can you go wrong?

Carbonara Pizza

English Muffin Pizzas

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Pork & Lamb

These pork and peach street tacos are a bright, light fusion blend of flavors and ingredients in a recipe that is healthy, quick, and, actually, beautiful!

Pork and Peach Street Tacos

This easy recipe for one pan honey apricot pork chops is not only tasty and healthy, it's a winner all year long, with fresh fruit or canned!

“Pantry to the Rescue” One Pan Honey Apricot Pork Chops

Sweet & savory, with salty bacon, tart apples, & sharp cheesy goodness - Apple Bacon Mac and Cheese is the easy comfort food recipe you've been looking for!

Apple Bacon Mac and Cheese

This easy recipe for BLT sliders with arugula and camp sauce is quick, flexible, and works as a main course, or a party or game day appetizer!

Easy BLT Sliders with Arugula & Camp Sauce

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Salads

A late summer salad that is simple, healthy, colorful, and easy to make for crowds? That's where this summer squash caprese salad comes in!

Summer Squash Caprese Salad

I've always loved the idea of macaroni salad, but never found one that excited me. This easy, preppable recipe does - for me it is the best macaroni salad!

The Best Macaroni Salad

Need a fun, tasty side dish for the 4th of July or any other summer get together? Try this easy recipe for bacon and egg potato salad!

Bacon and Egg Potato Salad

This is not your typical salad. It's got blue cheese. It's got potatoes. It's go steak. If you want a hearty, tasty dinner...cowboy steak salad!

Cowboy Steak Salad

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Seafood

Grilled Shrimp Scampi

Avoid the fast food drive thru with this buttery, flakey, and crispy fish sandwich. You’ll be surprised at how much healthier and better tasting this is and you’ll be wanting to make this at copycat version all the time.

Better-Than-Fast-Food Crispy Fish Sandwich

Mom’s Tuna Casserole

One Pan Salmon, Asparagus, & Sweet Potato Dinner

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Slow Cooker

This recipe for Slow Cooker Lemon Pepper Chicken lets you get a tasty, nutritious, and affordable dinner on the table with minimal effort!

“Pantry to the Rescue” Slow Cooker Lemon Pepper Chicken

This recipe for a Simple & Healthy Chicken Fiesta Quinoa Bowl is quick, easy, and comes together in the slow cooker! You can't beat that. Add a little avocado and queso fresco and you've got a tasty dinner.

Simple & Healthy Chicken Fiesta Quinoa Bowl

Fancy roasts in Dutch ovens served with wine and music by candlelight are great...but sometimes you just need to get a decent meal on the table! This 3 ingredient roast is that meal, and this busy mom loves it!

3 Ingredient Roast – a Busy Mom’s Dinner!

This recipe for pumpkin soup made in the slow cooker is easy, zesty, and bursting with the taste of autumn! Prep in the morning & have an effortless dinner! #pumpkin

Crockpot Pumpkin Soup

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Sides

This homemade Spanish rice is as easy as the boxed rice you buy at the store, more flavorful, and healthier. This is the perfect side to your taco nights.

Homemade Spanish Rice

This recipe for sweet corn & thyme cornbread cake is simple, perfect for fall, & rather unexpected...because it's a dessert, topped with lemon curd & honey!

Sweet Corn & Thyme Cornbread Cake

A late summer salad that is simple, healthy, colorful, and easy to make for crowds? That's where this summer squash caprese salad comes in!

Summer Squash Caprese Salad

This recipe for smoky grilled potato wedges is a fun and flavorful alternative to French fries that compliments any grilled meal!

Smoky Grilled Potato Wedges

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Soups

Let your pantry come to your rescue with this easy minestrone chicken noodle soup - this "hybrid" recipe is warm, hearty, and on the table in 30 minutes!

“Pantry to the Rescue” Minestrone Chicken Noodle Soup

Your pantry can come to your rescue again with this easy, hearty, super tasty, and crazy healthy one pot country lentil soup!

“Pantry to the Rescue” One Pot Country Lentil Soup

This recipe for pumpkin soup made in the slow cooker is easy, zesty, and bursting with the taste of autumn! Prep in the morning & have an effortless dinner! #pumpkin

Crockpot Pumpkin Soup

Slow Cooker Curried Sweet Potato & Carrot Soup

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Turkey

What happens when you cross queso dip and classic mac & cheese (with a little kielbasa for good measure)? You get queso mac and cheese!

Queso Mac and Cheese

Citrus & Garlic Turkey

Healthy, easy, and comforting, this simple winter cassoulet is a classic dish from the south of France easily adapted to dairy or gluten-free diets!

Simple Winter Cassoulet

Have some Thanksgiving leftovers in the fridge? Turn them into a delicious lunch or dinner in 15 minutes with this Thanksgiving Leftover Panini recipe!

Thanksgiving Leftover Panini

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Vegetarian & Meatless

This homemade Spanish rice is as easy as the boxed rice you buy at the store, more flavorful, and healthier. This is the perfect side to your taco nights.

Homemade Spanish Rice

This recipe for sweet corn & thyme cornbread cake is simple, perfect for fall, & rather unexpected...because it's a dessert, topped with lemon curd & honey!

Sweet Corn & Thyme Cornbread Cake

A late summer salad that is simple, healthy, colorful, and easy to make for crowds? That's where this summer squash caprese salad comes in!

Summer Squash Caprese Salad

This recipe for smoky grilled potato wedges is a fun and flavorful alternative to French fries that compliments any grilled meal!

Smoky Grilled Potato Wedges

More Vegetarian & Meatless Recipes

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This recipe for sweet corn & thyme cornbread cake is simple, perfect for fall, & rather unexpected...because it's a dessert, topped with lemon curd & honey!

Kids can bake, too! 10-year-old Eden shares her experience baking and decorating these indulgently delightful Devil's Food Cupcakes from scratch!

Make it with fresh berries or frozen - either way, this blueberry coffee cake is an easy, slightly indulgent way to start any morning!

Summer is here, & cobbler goes hand in hand with summer memories! Try this berries & thyme cobbler recipe for a slightly earthier take on the classic!

Carrot cake is pretty amazing, but I've got a couple of ideas about how to improve it - one, lose the raisins. Two, add browned butter. Yep. Done.

Feeling like you've outgrown your average hot cocoa? Make yourself some grown up hot chocolate from scratch with cocoa, vanilla, salt, milk, and cream!

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