Bourbon chicken is a stir fry style recipe that features pieces of fried chicken thighs in a sweet, sticky, and savory brown sugar bourbon glaze. It tastes sweet and a little salty and tangy, similar to other popular Chinese-American dishes like General Tso Chicken and Healthy Orange Chicken. These days, you can find Bourbon chicken well beyond Bourbon street. As the story goes, the dish was popularized in a Chinese restaurant that was located on Bourbon Street....

I originally envisioned this Brussels Sprouts Slaw as a star vegetable side dish that you can prep ahead and bring to your holiday gatherings. At any party I’ve hosted or attended, I’ve found that everyone appreciates the addition of a good salad. This Brussels sprouts slaw is more than good—it’s absolutely delicious. It is well thought out, offers dimensions of flavor and texture, and the zippy honey mustard dressing makes it sing....

This low-carb version of a classic breakfast fave is crispy on the outside, tender on the inside, and perfect for pairing with your favorite brunch recipes. Cauliflower hash browns give you that lazy weekend, diner breakfast satisfaction, in a more nutritious package. You can even serve them as a kid-friendly side with dinner. Dip ‘em with ketchup (or my personal favorite, hot sauce) and even the veggies skeptics won’t be able to resist!...

When I posted before and after shots of the empty baking pan to my Instagram story, with the confession that we’d eaten them for dinner, you didn’t respond with the raised-eyebrows emoji or logical statements like “What kind of adult eats enchilada fries for dinner?” Not you, my fellow oven-fry champions. You responded with encouragement, mutual understanding, and, best of all, an immediate recipe request. A few of your Instagram story replies: “When is this recipe coming out?...

Send me into your kitchen to make dinner with what you have on hand, and 9 times out of 10, I’ll emerge with some version of Homemade Fried Rice. A never-lets-me-down meal you can whip up with whatever in your produce drawer is threatening to expire first, chicken fried rice is one of my life’s great comfort foods. My fried rice affair began in high school, when I spent my hard-earned minimum wage dollars on authentic Chinese take-out (that was definitely not as nutritious as this Healthy Fried Rice) on weekdays and Pork Fried Rice at the “fancy” sit-down Chinese restaurant on weekends....

I first started baking these amped-up ginger cookies in my early 20s for an annual girls’ cookie exchange my coworker Megan and I started. Newcomers to town, we surmised that an excellent way to expand our friend network would be to lure prospective candidates over with promises of chocolate, butter, and Spiced Wine. It worked. We hosted the exchange every year we lived in the same city. While we changed up the cookie assortment each year, these Chocolate Ginger Molasses Cookies were our annual, iron-clad must make....

One of the infinite reasons I love my family is that we, a group of serious food lovers, never end one holiday feast without a detailed game plan for the subsequent feast. So naturally, at Thanksgiving, we were debating the Christmas brunch menu and realized the possibilities for sweet breakfast recipes are endless. From decadent Chocolate Muffins to Apple Coffee Cake, you can find something for everyone. No one could agree on a frontrunner until one of us mentioned bakery-style coffee cake muffins with streusel topping....

This recipe is my slimming spin on the classic takeout sweet and sour chicken that I remember loving at our mall food court in high school. I ate a fair amount of fast food growing up. These days, I much prefer recipes made with real, whole food ingredients, but I certainly haven’t lost my affinity for take-out style Asian food. Creating healthy crockpot versions of those fast food favorites has become one of my preferred recipe genres, and many of those recipes have become reader favorites too: Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken, Pineapple Chicken, Slow Cooker Beef and Broccoli, Crock Pot Cashew Chicken, Crock Pot Teriyaki Chicken, Asian Lettuce Wraps…it’s one tasty list!...

Each year, I visit an apple orchard so I can snag an excessive amount of apples to make my healthy apple recipes for fall. One of the things I love most about apples is how incredibly versatile they are. Although we often think of them first in delicious apple dessert recipes (plenty of which you’ll find below), they also act as a balanced addition to many savory recipes. While anyone who’s tried homemade apple pie knows its power (and I encourage everyone to try their hand at baking one at some point in their lives, preferably with this whole wheat pie crust) today I’m sharing a collection of more unique, healthy apple recipes that you’ll want to make all season long (or if you’re like me, year-round!...

I will be the first to say that not every ingredient is necessarily better to make from scratch (puff pastry, I am looking at you). Homemade applesauce, however, is worth it every single time. The fresh, unadulterated autumn-ness of homemade applesauce sings in a way that packaged applesauce, locked away on a shelf, simply cannot. Every year, I pick far too many apples at our orchard, a self-fulling prophecy I have absolutely zero plans to thwart....

Finding a broccoli cheese soup recipe that’s healthy and easy and tastes as good as the broccoli cheese soup against which all broccoli cheese soups are measured (hi, Panera!) is more complicated than it sounds. Despite its straightforward promise to be warm, comforting, and make you feel all cozy and happy inside, most from-scratch broccoli cheese soup recipes are fussier than they appear. Back when I was working on this Slow Cooker Broccoli and Cheese Soup, I discovered that the majority of homemade broccoli cheese soup recipes required me to start by making a roux-based white sauce which, while tasty, defeated the easy factor I was seeking....

Last week, I (hopefully) persuaded you to make your own cranberry sauce, via this easy Cranberry Orange Sauce recipe. Now, let’s chat about what to do with any leftover cranberry sauce. Smearing it on a turkey sandwich is an excellent, standard choice.Using it to top these Cranberry Cream Cheese Appetizer Bites is a smart allocation of precious leftovers as well.But my favorite way to enjoy this jeweled, vibrant sauce is for breakfast—parfait-style....

If you’ve been on the fence as to whether or not maple syrup and bacon can make absolutely anything—including vegetables as aggressively green as Brussels sprouts—delicious, the answer is absolutely. Recipe testing days leave me with an abundance of leftovers, and I often share the wealth with our friends and their families. When I showed up at the door with these oven roasted Brussels sprouts with bacon, however, I wasn’t sure how the kiddos would react....

Thanks to main ingredients that are often on hand at home – brown rice, canned beans and tomatoes, and cheese – this recipe is the pinnacle of easy and healthy comfort food. This Mexican casserole with rice is a good Mexican dish because it relies on classic Mexican flavors, but with a healthy spin (like Taco Salad!). It calls for lean ground beef, whole grain brown rice, and Greek yogurt instead of sour cream....

The calendar tells me that we are still in the early-ish days of January, which means that my duty is to inundate you with dark green vegetable juices, pale salads, and other manners of light, resolution-friendly fare. My thermometer tells me it was below 10 degrees, meaning we need some serious comfort food. This simple chicken and mushroom skillet with quinoa recipe is here to save the day (but this Chicken Fried Rice would also hit the spot)....

On nights when I’m desperate for a quick dinner fix, I’m always grateful when my emergency meal superpowers kick into gear. This sudden superhuman surge of creativity is responsible for some of my favorite busy weeknight recipes (like these Mushroom Tacos). Most recently, they came to my rescue in the form of endlessly adaptable, speedy-to-prepare, and scrumptiously reliable quesadillas. One of the quesadilla’s best qualities is its versatility. While Mexican ingredients are common and traditional, you don’t have to limit yourself to the obvious (these Sweet and Spicy Asian Pork Quesadillas are proof)....

Homemade no bake granola bars, you are my snacktime savior and hurried morning hero. I think it’s time I shared your superpowers with the rest of the world. In a world where we are all rushing to work, looking for healthy lunchbox and snack ideas, and desperately searching for a satisfying road trip snack that doesn’t leave florescent orange powder on your fingers, no bake granola bars are here to save the day (with these Quinoa Breakfast Bars as their trusty sidekick)....

Simple, healthy, and endlessly versatile, steel cut oats will forever be one of my favorite breakfasts. Although I take a breather from oatmeal in the summer when our house reaches rain forest levels of humidity, during the crisp fall and winter months, I crave the way it warms me to my core. As the temperature drops and the sun rises later, having a cozy breakfast to look forward to helps me climb out of bed in the morning, when our house is chilly and dark....

Margaritas taste of fun times, warm sunshine, and few worries. This spicy margarita is based on my master Skinny Margarita recipe. It has become a signature drink for many of you and led to an array of thirst-quenching spinoffs, from Peach Margaritas, to Blackberry Margaritas, to Grapefruit Margaritas. Spicing up a margarita is as easy as adding 1 to 2 thin slices of jalapeño to the shaker with the other ingredients....

I first started cooking with tofu after college, which was not so coincidentally when I first became fully responsible for paying my own grocery bills. Cutting out meat was a quick way to save, but as a lifetime study in hanger management, I knew I needed to ensure that my vegetarian meals were filling and protein rich. A friend turned me on to cooking with tofu, and I’ve been a devotee ever since....