Tex-Mex Mini Meatloaves are delicious, quick and easy, single-serving meatloaves that you can make either on the grill or in the oven, and have dinner on the table in less than 30 minutes. No boring meatloaf here. These babies have an added Tex-Mex kick of taco seasoning, crushed tortilla chips, diced tomatoes and chilies, corn,…
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Bacon Pasta Salad Primavera
Bacon Pasta Salad Primavera is an easy summer pasta salad with only 5 ingredients but plenty of bacon and a variety of Italian spring vegetables like you see in a pasta primavera dish. This Bacon Pasta Salad Primavera is best made ahead of time. This makes it perfect for Memorial Day or July 4th or…
Salsa Chicken
Salsa Chicken is about the easiest chicken dish you will ever see. It is amazing that it can be so delicious with so few ingredients, and so little work. For this recipe I used boneless, skinless, chicken thighs because they retain moisture better than chicken breasts when baking. However, boneless skinless chicken breasts would work…
Jalapeno Popper Pasta Salad
Jalapeño Popper Pasta Salad is my contribution to a Summer Salad Recipe Round up with several fantastic bloggers to celebrate May as Salad month. This Jalapeño Popper Pasta Salad is perfect for a barbecue, picnic, or pot luck…..spicy, creamy, crispy, and crunchy. This pasta salad includes jalapeños, and bacon just as in a jalapeño popper…
Oven Roasted Garlic Herb Parmesan Potatoes
Oven Roasted Garlic Herb Parmesan Potatoes…..just the name alone makes me hungry. Imagine buttery potatoes coated with olive oil, garlic, herbs de provence, and freshly grated parmesan cheese. MMMMM! I love potatoes pretty much any way you can fix them….mashed, baked, fried, but roasting especially brings out such a wonderful, earthy flavor to the potatoes,…
Cinco De Mayo Fiesta Menu
I’m sharing a fantastic Cinco de Mayo Fiesta Menu that includes a round up of Mexican inspired recipes that are perfect for your Cinco de Mayo Mexican Fiesta celebration or for any party or get-together! What is even better is that most are flavorful, spicy, and delicious without all the fat and calories! Let’s hear…
Chicken Fajita Quesadillas with Pico De Gallo Salsa
Chicken Fajita Quesadillas with Pico De Gallo Salsa are oohey gooey cheesy, spicy, colorful and amazing! They are kind of like a Mexican or Tex-Mex version of a grilled cheese sandwich, except with flour tortillas instead of bread and with spicy pico de gallo and chicken in addition to the cheese. Since I had made…
Pico de Gallo Salsa
Pico de Gallo Salsa is a delicious, colorful, spicy, healthy Mexican or Tex-Mex appetizer dip that is perfect for the upcoming Cinco de Mayo or graduation celebrations! It will keep everyone happy since it fits into a vegan, gluten free, low carb, low fat, or Paleo diet plan. I LOVE Tex-Mex food. To me it…
Strawberry Muffins
These gorgeous Strawberry Muffins are sweet, light, fluffy, moist and delicious……and so easy to make. They are perfect for a Mother’s Day breakfast or brunch or for a sweet treat anytime. Even hubby and the kids could make these. With Mother’s Day around the corner, maybe you can hint to hubby that you would like…
Grandma Lois’ Spring Pea Salad
Grandma Lois’ Spring Pea Salad is my Mother-in-Law’s recipe that she has brought to every holiday gathering for years. It is a tradition. It would not be a holiday in our house without Lois or her pea salad. She gave me the recipe to share with you. I love it, not only because it is…
Lemon Strawberry Pound Cake with Chocolate Ganache
Lemon Strawberry Pound Cake with Chocolate Ganache is a variation of my Glazed Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake. With Easter around the corner, I wanted to create a strawberry dessert that is perfect for Spring and Easter. Strawberries are starting to come into season, and I love fresh strawberries. For several years one of our grandmothers…
Pork Loin with Dijon Cream Sauce and Cornichons
Pork Loin with Dijon Cream Sauce and Cornichons is the main course in a Progressive Easter Dinner with some of my favorite blogging friends and Maille® Mustard. This Progressive Easter Dinner not only includes an easy, elegant, mouthwatering Easter Dinner menu, but also an extra special giveaway by our friends from Maille® Mustard and Revol that includes…
Pan Seared Herb Roasted Chicken Thighs
This easy two step cooking method for the Pan Seared Herb Roasted Chicken Thighs results in tender, juicy, flavorful chicken with crispy, golden skin every time. Many of my recipes call for lots of seasoning, or spicy seasonings, such as my Cajun Blackened Chicken recipe. However, some members of my extended family prefer less…
Glazed Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake
This Glazed Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake is a moist, luscious, buttery, lemon pound cake made with beautiful fresh blueberries throughout and glazed with a sweet, tangy lemon icing. It is similar to the Iced Lemon Pound Cake found at Starbucks but with the addition of fresh blueberries. If you love the Iced Lemon Pound Cake…
Garlic Parmesan Orzo Primavera
Garlic Parmesan Orzo Primavera is an adaptation of the popular recipe, Garlic Parmesan Orzo with Fresh Veggies, by Marion of Life Tastes Good, one of my favorite bloggers. In addition to garlic and parmesan, my recipe has asparagus, peas, carrots, red bell peppers, and of course, orzo pasta. I have to be honest. Until last…
Easy Nutella Chocolate Chip Cookies
These Easy Nutella Chocolate Chip Cookies are delicious and could not be any easier to make. You only need 5 ingredients and in 15-minutes you can have warm fudgy, chocolate chip cookies hot out of the oven! You can’t get any better than that. Last week we had a crisis in the Flavor Mosaic house….
Mexican Quinoa
Mexican Quinoa is a healthy, high protein, gluten-free alternative to your favorite Spanish rice or Mexican rice dish, but it tastes just as delicious.
Lightened Up Streusel Filled Coffee Cake
Lightened Up Streusel Filled Coffee Cake from Renee’s Kitchen Adventures was the answer to my quest for a delicious light and moist coffee cake that did not break the calorie bank. I love Renee’s blog not only because her recipes taste fantastic, but also because she includes all the nutrition and Weight Watcher Points with…
Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits
Today, my friends, was an historic day in the Flavor Mosaic household! Yes. I say truly historic! For the first time EVER in my ENTIRE life I made HOMEMADE Buttermilk Biscuits! Yes. Yours truly made them FROM SCRATCH! None of that store bought biscuit mix required here. AND……(drum roll please)……….they turned out PERFECTLY BEAUTIFUL, and…
Asian BBQ Burger with Sriracha Mayo
Asian BBQ Burgers with Sriracha Mayo made for a delicious dinner last night. Mr. Flavor Mosaic could probably live on burgers every night. These Asian-inspired burgers received rave reviews from the hubs. Although he thought I could have made them spicier, to me they were spiced just right. What makes these burgers Asian burgers? Hoisin…
Baked Ziti
Baked Ziti is one of my favorite comfort foods. It tastes amazing, especially the next day. It is an excellent dish to make in advance and freeze or eat immediately. Better yet, make two batches and eat one and freeze the other for later. Rich, flavorful marinara sauce coats the ziti pasta (or in this…
Hasselback Potatoes
These Hasselback Potatoes make an easy, delicious and gourmet side dish whenever you want to impress that special someone, or honored guests, or just to have a healthy dinner. These potatoes get their name from Hasselbacken, the Stockholm, Sweden restaurant where it was first created. Basically these are dressed up baked potatoes. And the best…
Cherry Cheesecake Brownies
These Cherry Cheesecake Brownies look beautiful and taste even better. No box brownies here. I use my Best Brownies recipe for the brownie layer and then a simple cheesecake recipe for the cheesecake layer. Then it is topped with cherry pie filling that is swirled in with the cheesecake layer. OMG! But wait. There’s…
Loaded Grilled Cheese
As you can see from the photo above, I completely got carried away with this Loaded Grilled Cheese Sandwich that is loaded with lots of pepper jack, cheddar, and mozzarella cheese, as well as bacon, spinach and tomatoes. While it is ridiculously messy, it also tastes ridiculously fantastic. If you love cheese, then you will…