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...]
5-Layer Queso Dip
A Scrumptious 5-Layer Queso Dip...with creamy white or yellow queso as the base and a pile of delicious toppings! Here in San Antonio, it's often said that you judge and choose a local TexMex joint or taqueria by their salsa. Well....... I say you need to judge it by their salsa AND their queso dip. Because queso is life. (Seriously, I grew up dipping rolled … [Read more...]
Slow Cooker Hashbrown Beef Bake
The slow cooker version of our most popular recipe - this slow cooker hashbrown beef bake is divine! Here is the slow cooker version of our most visited recipe - Hashbrown Beef Bake! We have adapted it to the slow cooker - please pay close attention to cooking times. Because of timing, this might be better to slow cook on the weekend, or one a day you'll be home in … [Read more...]
Best Banana Bread Recipe with Caramel Glaze
A homemade caramel glaze makes this the best banana bread recipe ever - you'll never make homemade banana bread without this glaze again! It's time to level up your favorite banana bread recipe with a caramel glaze. You'll never make it without the glaze again! With this recipe, I'm sharing 3 different ways to bake this bread. No matter how you bake it, you'll definitely … [Read more...]
Instant Pot Pumpkin Spice Oatmeal Recipe
Your favorite flavors of fall blended with steel cut oats, cooked to perfection in this Instant Pot Oatmeal recipe! Around our house, we made a.l.o.t. of oatmeal in the Instant Pot. It's our preferred "breakfast" cooked in the Instant Pot, except it's not usually eaten for breakfast. It's usually the "2nd dinner" option for the boys. You see, I can start the Instant Pot … [Read more...]
Instant Pot Salsa Beef Roast
Simple ingredients, such fantastic flavor - in large part because of the way that the Instant Pot infuses flavor as it cooks. A note about the cooking time for a roast in the Instant Pot: You'll find a variety of different cooking times for beef or pork roasts in the Instant Pot. This is because the cooking time can vary based on the thickness of the roast, as … [Read more...]
Instant Pot Jamaican Pork Chops
Perfect combination of flavors in these chops! Just be sure to read the directions - we use the "steamer rack" for these pork chops! Instant Pot Jamaican Pork Chops A perfectly simple pork chop recipe, cooked up fast in the Instant Pot! 4 boneless pork chops1 cup hot waterSalt and pepper1 Tbsp canola oil8 ox can crushed pineapple1 Tbsp Jerk seasoning1 Tbsp brown … [Read more...]
Instant Pot Balsamic & Brown Sugar Pulled Pork
This is pulled pork heaven right here. Better than my favorite BBQ joint. I think it's the sweet and tangy from the brown sugar and the balsamic. So so so delicious! Enjoy!!! Instant Pot Balsamic & Brown Sugar Pulled Pork Scrumptious and easy recipe for Instant Pot Pulled Pork - made with balsamic and brown sugar! 2 lb pork roast1/2 cup hot … [Read more...]
Instant Pot Borracho Shredded Chicken
Yummy, yummy, yummy shredded chicken - made in the Instant Pot! Adore this shredded chicken - made with beer! So I'm calling it "borracho" chicken because borracho means drunk in Spanish. The IP does a great job of infusing the flavors in this sauce together and into the chicken. A quick note about the chicken in this recipe - it's a mix of white and … [Read more...]