Author: Jamie

Mini Lemon Cheesecakes

Mini lemon cheesecakes are topped with lemon curd and fresh berries for a bright addition to any summer menu. I…

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Mini lemon cheesecakes are topped with lemon curd and fresh berries for a bright addition to any summer menu.

Unwrapped mini lemon cheesecake next to a wrapped mini lemon cheesecake on a white plate.

I come from a cheesecake obsessed family. Whether it’s mini cheesecakes for a spring birthday party or a pumpkin cheesecake on Thanksgiving, a cheesecake of some variety graces our table for almost every occasion. 

It’s one of those desserts that immediately takes me back to being a kid and baking with my Nana.

Perched up on a kitchen stool, I’d help her every step of the way. From sifting cups of flour and cutting shapes into pie dough to rolling up the perfect pumpkin roll, I was always her right hand girl. 

Many times, we’d bake the day away and then deliver our sweet treats to neighbors, church friends, and family. I loved every minute of it. In that kitchen is where my love for baking began.

So of course, any time I make cheesecake, whether it’s Nana’s easy cheesecake or these mini lemon cheesecakes, I always think of her.

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Strawberry Salad with Spinach and Arugula

Strawberry salad combines summer-ripe strawberries with tender spinach, zesty arugula, caramelized almonds, and creamy goat cheese for a fresh, delicious…

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Strawberry salad combines summer-ripe strawberries with tender spinach, zesty arugula, caramelized almonds, and creamy goat cheese for a fresh, delicious summer salad. Top it with homemade poppy seed dressing for the perfect finish!

Close up of a serving bowl filled with strawberry salad and topped with poppy seed dressing.

It’s nearly strawberry season around here and I couldn’t be more excited. Soon, the farmer’s market will be full of fresh strawberries and the u-pick farms will be open.

My step-mom and I have loved taking Elle strawberry picking in the past, and soon the baby will be big enough to go, too. I can’t wait to have our fridge overflowing with fresh, perfectly ripe berries for turning into everything from strawberry lemonade to fresh strawberry pie to this strawberry salad. 

This is the kind of salad I could eat every day of the week and not get tired of it. It’s got so many great flavors and it’s as easy as can be to make!

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Poppy Seed Dressing

Tangy poppy seed dressing is easy to make and adds a delicious pop of flavor to all of your favorite…

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Tangy poppy seed dressing is easy to make and adds a delicious pop of flavor to all of your favorite summer salads.

Close up of a small jar of poppy seed dressing with a bowl of strawberry spinach salad in the background.

I really love a good poppy seed dressing. 

Look, I know it’s not a “cool” salad dressing like green goddess dressing. Poppy seed dressing belongs on an old-school steakhouse menu, probably right next to the ranch dressing and blue cheese dressing on the salad bar. 

But maybe that’s why I like it so much. It’s an old-fashioned classic, but it’s still absolutely delicious. And it’s super easy to make, so you will never need to buy a bottle of it again!

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Bisquick Breakfast Casserole

Made easy with frozen vegetables and baking mix, this bisquick breakfast casserole is a savory, cheesy brunch dish that can…

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Made easy with frozen vegetables and baking mix, this bisquick breakfast casserole is a savory, cheesy brunch dish that can be prepped ahead or just before serving.

Close up of a slice of bisquick breakfast casserole next to fresh berries on a white plate.

If you’ve been following MBA for a while, you know that I’m a big fan of my homemade bisquick mix. It’s one of my favorite homemade kitchen staples – maybe only surpassed by my pumpkin pie spice. 

I love using my homemade bisquick in everything from 7UP biscuits to impossible coconut pie. And of course bisquick pancakes are on the weekend breakfast menu all the time around here.

You also probably know how much I love my hash brown breakfast casserole. So when I realized I could use my homemade bisquick to make another super easy and delicious breakfast casserole, I was on it immediately. 

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Easy Sugar Cookies

Chewy, easy sugar cookies come together in a snap with zero chilling, rolling out, or cutting required. Make these cookies…

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Chewy, easy sugar cookies come together in a snap with zero chilling, rolling out, or cutting required. Make these cookies extra colorful and fun by adding nonpareil sprinkles or sandwiching them with buttercream frosting. 

Easy sugar cookie with nonpareil sprinkles leaning against a stack of 5 cookies.

I’m a self-professed sugar cookie connoisseur. I’ll take ’em frosted, cut-out, rolled in sugar, soft, chewy, crispy, or straight out of the plastic container from the bakery section at Walmart.

What I’m saying is that I’m fairly obsessed with sugar cookies and I’m honestly not very picky about them.

Wait, maybe that makes me less of a connoisseur and more of a human sugar cookie garbage disposal. Whatevs.

While I do appreciate a beautiful sugar cookie complete with royal icing, I’m more of a buttercream type of girl. And I’m impatient. It’s why I love no-chill sugar cookies when I do want to make cut-outs.

And I’m definitely not fancy, so these easy sugar cookies are totally my thing. They come together in less than 10 minutes with everyday ingredients that I’m betting you have in your fridge and pantry right now.

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Peanut Butter Banana Bread

Rich, creamy peanut butter pairs with sweet bananas for a loaf of peanut butter banana bread that both kids and…

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Rich, creamy peanut butter pairs with sweet bananas for a loaf of peanut butter banana bread that both kids and adults will love. 

Sliced loaf of peanut butter banana bread set on a wooden board.

We love peanut butter around here. Whether it’s the classic PB&J combination in my peanut butter and jelly bars or mixed with chocolate in peanut butter cup cookies or peanut butter cup brownies, my family loves it all.

We’ve been on a big banana bread kick lately, so it just made sense to combine our love for peanut butter with our banana bread obsession. The result is a peanut butter banana bread that we all devoured immediately.

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Homemade Waffles

Crispy on the outside, fluffy on the inside and bursting with the flavor and aroma of vanilla, these are the…

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Crispy on the outside, fluffy on the inside and bursting with the flavor and aroma of vanilla, these are the very best homemade waffles! 

Close up of homemade waffles topped with berries on a white plate.

Waffles are a big hit around here, especially on the weekends. We have some mini waffle irons and Elle LOVES having her own mini waffles.

Yes, I said “some.” We have more than one and I’m not ashamed to admit it!

We have a mini waffle maker that makes standard circle-shaped waffles, but we also have a mini waffle-stick maker. Elle is obsessed with the mini waffle sticks.

I usually whip up a batch of bisquick waffles, but sometimes I want to make from-scratch, homemade waffles. And when I do, this is the recipe I use because it’s the very best.

If you’re looking for waffles that are crisp on the outside and fluffy on the inside, with the perfect amount of vanilla flavor to them, this is the recipe for you.

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Easy Quiche (Any Flavor!)

Use your family’s favorite meats, vegetables, and cheeses to create the quiche of your dreams using this easy quiche recipe. …

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Use your family’s favorite meats, vegetables, and cheeses to create the quiche of your dreams using this easy quiche recipe. 

Overhead view of easy quiche that has been sliced.

Does anyone else like doing “breakfast for dinner”? Breakfast is arguably the best meal of the day, so it’s not hard to convince my family to eat things like hash brown breakfast casserole or sheet pan pancakes for dinner. 

This easy quiche recipe is the perfect “breakfast for dinner” option because you can use any of your favorite fillings to fit your family’s tastes. Or use it as a chance to clean out the fridge of leftover veggies and cheeses that need to be used up.

Whether you’re making it for dinner, a weekend breakfast, or for a special brunch, this is one recipe you’ll want to save to come back to again and again.

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Blueberry Biscuits

Tall, fluffy blueberry biscuits are topped with honey butter for a perfectly sweet start to the day. This easy recipe…

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Tall, fluffy blueberry biscuits are topped with honey butter for a perfectly sweet start to the day. This easy recipe requires zero cutting or rolling!

White plate holding two blueberry biscuits next to a small bowl of butter.

It’s been a while since I was this excited about a recipe. And I get pretty excited about our recipes, so that should tell you how awesome this one is.

During the March Madness finals, Elle and Eric went to one of the games and I stayed home with the baby. While I was scrolling through Reddit, I found a post from someone saying their boyfriend had made the best biscuits they’d ever had.

Obviously I had to click through, and thankfully the poster shared the recipe in the comments, which they said they got from America’s Test Kitchen.

I had a bottle of buttermilk in my fridge that needed to be used, so I made these blueberry biscuits first thing the next morning. Then I immediately texted Stephie that she needed to try them, too.

She took one bite and texted me, “Can I just live inside of this blueberry biscuit?”

So yeah. These biscuits? You need to make them immediately. You can thank us later.

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One-Pot Lemon Chicken and Orzo

Tender chicken, orzo pasta, tomatoes and spinach come together in a lemony cream sauce for a delicious dinner made all…

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Tender chicken, orzo pasta, tomatoes and spinach come together in a lemony cream sauce for a delicious dinner made all in one pan. This one-pot lemon chicken and orzo will become a weeknight dinner favorite in no time!

White plate holding a serving of lemon chicken and orzo.

We love one-pot dinners around here. There’s nothing better than minimal cleanup and having a meal that my family will happily gobble up.

One-pot spaghetti and one-pot beef stroganoff are big hits around here. I wanted to add to my list of one-pot dinners with something around chicken and orzo (one of my favorite little pasta shapes) and this one-pot lemon chicken and orzo was born.

Between the chicken, the orzo, and the spinach and tomatoes, this is truly a full meal in one pan. Talk about a weeknight dinner win!

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