This beautiful Jalapeño Popper Quick Bread is a must-try if you love jalapeños and all things good! Savory quick bread made with all the ingredients of your favorite jalapeño popper! I'm surprised I even was able to take photos of this Jalapeño Popper Quick Bread. Because it smelled amazing while it was cooking, and the minute it came out of the oven the boys in my … [Read more...]
Chicken Pesto Pasta
This Chicken Pesto Pasta is the Ultimate Summer Dish! You must try it this week! Chicken Pesto Pasta is simply superb! Chances are, when you put pesto on anything it immediately becomes delicious on a whole new level. But, I'm going to be biased with THIS particular dish, because I can. And because it truly is the ultimate summer meal. It's fresh. You could grab most … [Read more...]
Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
These Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins are the best way to eat your veggies... but also have a treat! Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins are the breakfast you need in your life right now! Double chocolate. Double delicious. Does it get any better when you get chocolate and some veggies in the form of a cute little fluffy muffin?! They are kid-friendly too, because … [Read more...]
7 Easy Snacks for Family Movie Night
You need these delicious and easy snacks for your next family movie night! Family movie night isn't even truly a movie night without the most important part... SNACKS! And if you're like us, it's been one family movie night after another right now. (We have loved introducing our boys to classics like the Back to the Future series!) There's no reason to … [Read more...]
Quarantine Cake – A Yummy Twist on Depression Cake
Depression Cake became popular when ingredients were scarce during the Great Depression. Quarantine Cake became popular because we have all these ingredients and need chocolate. :P An egg-less and milk-less cake was first made popular during the Great Depression when cake, milk and even flour were very difficult to come by. During this season of social … [Read more...]
Quarantine Virtual Recipe Swap and Recipe Ideas List
Leave a Favorite - Find a New Favorite in This Quarantine Virtual Recipe Swap and Recipe Ideas List Quarantine have you making the same thing over and over?! Feel like you've cooked dinner about 413 times this month?! Running out of ideas of what to cook?! Seems like you've made the same meal 5 times this week already?! Tired of all the pasta and meat … [Read more...]
The Best Homemade Recipes
Have some extra time on your hands? Trying to use up some pantry ingredients? You are going to adore these homemade recipes! … [Read more...]
7 Hacks for Baking the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies
Learn important tips for making the perfect chocolate chip cookies at home Want to know why bakery and delivery cookies are always so perfect?! The dough has had time to hang out in the mixing bowl or storage dish, letting the ingredients mingle and meld and mix together. It's true, the butter and flour, and eggs and leavening, need time to mix together. It's a chemistry … [Read more...]
ROUNDUP: 13 Best Baked Oatmeal Recipes
When Oatmeal and Cake Gets Together and Has a Baby...You End Up With the Best Baked Oatmeal!!! That's right - it's like an oatmeal cake. And you MUST TRY IT!!! It's a hearty, filling, and delicious baked oatmeal that will fill up even the hungriest of bellies. Here on $5 Dinners, we believe in making every meal of the day affordable and simple. And Baked … [Read more...]
QUARAN-Beans and Rice – Recipes & Tips for Eating More at Home
As we find ourselves staying home and getting creative with the items we have on hand to pull dinner together, this list of rice and bean pantry recipes and tips are a stellar resource to save! I present to you... QUARAN-Beans and Rice!!! Even though the recipes we share on this site are mostly on a $5 per meal budget, there are times in the month that you … [Read more...]