Devil’s Food Whoopie Pies Recipe

Devils Food Whoopie Pies from addapinch.com

  I’ve had a hankering for chocolate cake and chocolate cookies for the last little while, but this weekend I really wanted to make something different and didn’t want to have a cake in the house to tempt me every time I passed it as I walked past. So I decided I’d make Devil’s Food Read More

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Chocolate Chip Espresso Pumpkin Bread Recipe

Chocolate Chip Espresso Pumpkin Bread Recipe

  I always look forward to pumpkin bread each fall. The smell of it baking makes my entire house smell amazing and like a fairytale when you walk in the front door. And while I love the traditional, classic pumpkin bread my mother made when I was a young girl, I decided I wanted to Read More

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Two Years

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Guess what, friends? Today is a very special birthday around here. Add a Pinch is two years old today – that’s like a million and three in blog years -  well, ’round about – but we’re just getting started! We’ve covered a lot of ground over the past couple of years – 379 recipes to Read More

Crab Salad Recipe

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  What is it about crab salad? It is so light, flavorful, and extremely versatile. It is perfect for everything from a light luncheon or picnic to a large tailgating event or even when entertaining over the holidays. Crab salad comes together in just a few minutes, but makes an impression that lasts. For entertaining Read More

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Homemade Dog Treats Recipe

Homemade Dog Treats Recipe from addapinch.com

Homemade Dog Treats are so much easier to make than I would have ever thought a few years ago. For a while now, whenever the notion strikes me, I like to bake a couple of batches of dog treats for our dogs as a special little goodie. Let me just tell you, my dogs love Read More

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Baked Apples Recipe

Baked Apples Recipe from addapinch.com

Skillet Baked Apples are one of my favorite things when the air starts to turn cooler in the evenings. As soon as I start thinking of opening windows throughout the day instead of using our air conditioner, I know it is time to start with the recipes for fall – especially these baked apples. They Read More

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Cinnamon Pecans Recipe

Skillet Cinnamon Pecans from addapinch.com

  Cinnamon Pecans make an excellent nibble to have on hand when entertaining or for wrapping up as gifts as a hostess thank you, to toss into a goodie basket for out of town guests, or to give to friends, teachers, and neighbors over the holidays. I warn you though, they are super addictive! Pin Read More

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Tilapia with Browned Butter and Lemon Sauce Recipe

Tilapia with Browned Butter and Lemon Sauce Recipe from addapinch.com

  I made this for lunch yesterday and I think I heard angels singing. Tender, flaky pan-seared Tilapia with Browned Butter and Lemon Sauce topped with a few sprigs of rosemary by far beats my normal throw-together lunch – or supper many nights. In about 12 minutes, from start-to-finish, I had one of the most Read More

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Peanut Butter Bars Recipe

Peanut Butter Bars from addapinch.com

  What is it about Peanut Butter Bars that make the world just feel right. Since Little Buddy was just a wee one, we’ve been making these bars together. He’d sit on the edge of the counter, swinging his feet as we poured all of the ingredients for the peanut butter base into a large Read More

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BBQ Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms Recipe

BBQ Stuffed Portobello Recipe from addapinch.com (2)

  Remember that Spicy Pulled Pork Stuffed Sweet Potato I raved about a while back? Well, I made her a favorite cousin with this BBQ Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms recipe I whipped up. Heavens. I’ve been really trying to cut back on my bread as much as possible – well, except for cake and cookies, but Read More

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Chicken Enchiladas Recipe

Chicken Enchiladas Recipe from addapinch.com

  I’ve been cooking with so much cheese lately, I’m beginning to think I should look into buying stock in a local cheesemaker’s business. I’ve always loved cheese and cook with it as often as humanly possible, but my cheese cooking ratcheted up a notch or two about a week or so ago after a Read More

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Spiced Apple Upside Down Cake

Spiced Apple Upside Down Cake

  Spiced Apple Upside Down Cake is one of my favorite cakes to make as summer begins to melt into fall. It’s sort of a special tribute to all of the great things that fall has in store for us – apples, cinnamon, buttery caramel, and that cozy feeling I always long for this time Read More

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Coca Cola Cake Recipe

Coca-Cola Cake Recipe from addapinch.com

  Coca Cola Cake is one of the most delicious cakes and is a Southern staple. It seems like every when I visited any of my friend’s house as a young girl growing up, my friend’s mothers would stand at the stove for just a few minutes talking with us about our day and then Read More

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Baked Eggs in Avocado Cups Recipe

Baked Egg Avocado Cup Recipe - Add a Pinch

  Even though this past week I made three cakes, yes… three, we’re trying to watch the amount of bread we eat.  It is just so easy to make waffles, pancakes, biscuits, muffins, scones, or even egg in the hole or breakfast burritos that it had become second nature to load up in the mornings Read More

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Bean Dip Recipe

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  There’s something about cooler weather, fall, and football that always has me craving this Bean Dip. It’s a no-frills sort of dip that always seems to disappear in the blink of an eye. A while back, as we were getting ready for watching an afternoon game, I decided to change how I served my Read More

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Skillet Roasted Chicken and Vegetables Recipe

Skillet Roasted Chicken and Vegetables Recipe

  Quick, easy to throw together suppers and I are the best of friends – especially if they look like they took a whole lot more effort than I actually put into them. And if it can be made in one-pan, in this case a skillet, that makes it even better in my book! This Read More

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Spicy Pulled Pork Stuffed Sweet Potatoes Recipe

Spicy Pulled Pork Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

  Spicy Pulled Pork Stuffed Sweet Potatoes. How in the world have I gone so many years without these in my life? I’m not entirely certain, I’m just so excited that I don’t have to go any longer without them! My sister and brother-in-law came to visit the other night and I knew I wanted Read More

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Waffle Recipe :: Salted Caramel Apple Waffle Recipe

Salted Caramel Apple Waffles

  Some mornings I just struggle with making something new for breakfast. Little Buddy still has his favorite, especially my Chocolate Chip Waffles, that he requests every opportunity I don’t have a plan in place. Yesterday morning though, I think I hit one out of the park. I made this Salted Caramel Apple Waffle Recipe Read More

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Butter Cake with Salted Caramel Buttercream Frosting Recipe

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  Southern Caramel Cake. It’s just hard to beat it. It is one of my family’s all-time favorite cakes – especially for holidays, birthdays and major celebrations. You can just count on it appearing to make those special occasions even more special. Memorable even. It’s odd to put that much significance on a cake, but Read More

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Apple Walnut Salad Recipe

Apple Walnut Salad

  Happy Labor Day! I hope you are kicking back, relaxing and having a wonderful day with your family. Not only has Labor Day weekend always signified the beginning of school, football games, and putting away of white shoes, it has always also been the weekend we celebrate my Mama. Her birthday always falls some Read More

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