Oreo Cheesecake Bars

These Oreo Cheesecake Bars, with a thick layer of cookies and cream crust, will be one of your family's favorite desserts. 

If you love cheesecakes, but are intimidated by the whole ritual of making one, including dealing with the water bath, worrying about the cheesecake cracking, and breaking out the springform pan, you need to give cheesecake bars a chance.

Tomato and Fennel Salad

This tomato and Fennel Salad is light and refreshing, and simply elegant. 

 This tomato and fennel salad is lightly dressed in a mixture of olive oil, orange juice, and cider vinegar, and garnished with orange zest and fennel fronds.

Oatmeal Pear Bars

These Oatmeal Pear Bars are a delicious "grab and go" breakfast for busy mornings. 

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Make a batch of these oatmeal pear bars on a Sunday afternoon, and after they cool, wrap them up and refrigerate to serve later for a quick breakfast.

Barefoot Contessa's Lasagna with Turkey Sausage

Barefoot Contessa's Lasagna with Turkey Sausage is a classic, and it's a big favorite in our family. 

Barefoot Contessa's Lasagna with Turkey Sausage is the first lasagna I ever made. It was also my first introduction to ricotta cheese and goat cheese. It was a revelation, and making it again brings back a lot of memories.

Tandoori Style Crispy Chicken Wings

These Tandoori Style Chicken Wings are spicy, juicy, and super crispy. They are first marinated in a zesty mixture of yogurt and spices, and then baked in a super hot oven.

Tandoori chicken is named after the clay tandoor oven, which gets super hot (up to 900 degrees F). Traditional tandoori chicken is very colorful, often from the spices such as turmeric, cayenne pepper, and paprika, and sometimes from added red food coloring.

Mini Chocolate Sandwich Cookies (Small Batch)

These Mini Chocolate Sandwich Cookies are so crumbly, airy, and buttery, and most of all, chocolatey.

These mini chocolate sandwich cookies are so easy to make. All you need is a couple of small bowls, a hand mixer, and just one baking sheet. The recipe makes just 12 sandwich cookies, perfect for smaller households, small dinner parties, and for people (like me) who need portion control.

Oklahoma Fried Onion Short Rib Burgers

Oklahoma Fried Onion Short Rib Burgers are created by smashing the ground beef into a mound of thinly sliced onions to create a burger infused with the flavors of crispy caramelized onions.

Evidently, fried onion burgers were invented in Oklahoma during the depression because beef was expensive and onions were cheap. They are kind of like a Smashburger, because you press the meat onto the onions and deeply brown both on a hot skillet.