From deliciously easy crock pot dinners to healthy sweet snacks and savory salads, below is a brief list of 10 blogger recipes I make in our house over and over again. If you’ve been reading PBF for more than a hot second, I have a feeling many of them will look familiar to you but if you haven’t tried them out for yourself yet, I highly encourage you to add these recipes to your meal plan once the craziness of the holiday season settles down a bit. They’re all incredibly tasty and – for the most part – pretty easy and healthy, too!
10 Favorite Blogger Recipes
- The Lean Green Bean’s Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken Thighs
I first discovered this recipe when Lindsay and I were working together on our Dinner Made Easy recipe ebook. It has quickly become one of my go-to recipes for busy weeknight dinners when I want to have something ready for our family that doesn’t require a lot of time and effort at the end of a long day. Packed with sweet potatoes and carrots, this recipe is a one-pot meal that incorporates protein, vegetables and healthy carbs in a tasty way our whole family adores.
- FANNEtastic Foods’ Quinoa Salad
This quinoa salad was served at Anne’s wedding and there’s a reason all of her guests requested the recipe. It’s so, so delicious! I made it for the first time for Friendsgiving and now it’s a holiday-season staple in our house. I’m not sure why I associate it with the holidays (the cranberries, maybe?), but it’s a side dish worthy of serving at a special dinner for sure!
- Skinnytaste’s Crock Pot Santa Fe Chicken
This recipe almost smells as good as it tastes! Gina is the queen of creating healthy dinners that still taste incredible and this recipe is one I love to throw together when it’s chilly outside and we want something warm and hearty for dinner. It’s always a hit with the whole family!
- Iowa Girl Eats’ Strawberry Shortcake Icebox Cake
As someone who considers whipped cream the highlight of any dessert, Kristin’s recipe for strawberry shortcake icebox cake was a recipe I knew I had to make the minute I saw it on her blog. It was so incredibly tasty and easy to make that it actually inspired me to make two of my own icebox cake recipes since it’s also a very easy recipe to adapt!
- Carrots ‘n’ Cake’s Breakfast Potatoes
I am a HUGE breakfast potato lover so when I first saw Tina share this recipe for breakfast potatoes, I was all over it! It’s such a simple recipe and you truly don’t have to measure anything (though I did the first time just to be safe). It’s a breakfast potato recipe I have memorized and I can make for our family and guests and know they will be a hit every time.
- PaleOMG’s Spaghetti Pie
I owe Brittany a billion thanks for introducing me to this dish! She brought it over right after I had Chase and Ryan and I could not believe how much we loved it! The base of this recipe is spaghetti squash and it’s packed with so much flavor. I always use hot Italian sausage when I make it (a tip I learned from Brittany) and it may be my favorite blog recipe ever.
- A Healthy Slice of Life’s Dark Chocolate & Date No Bake Brownies
When I first tried Brittany’s No Bake Brownies at her house last year, I found myself reaching for them again and again. Before I left, I asked for the recipe and when Brittany pointed me to her blog and I saw the ingredient list, I fell even more in love. The base of the recipe is dates and cocoa powder so they are a sweet treat I feel good about making and feeding to my family when my sweet tooth starts raging.
- The Fitnessista’s Kale Salad
I looove kale but incorporating kale into salads has to be done just right or it can taste too chewy. Gina’s kale salad recipe is just as easy as it is delicious! I’ve made this salad a handful of times (it tastes great the next day which isn’t always the case with salads) and almost every time I bring it to a gathering with friends, someone asks for the recipe!
- Eating Bird Food’s Pumpkin Spice Latte
During the fall season, I saw a bunch of pumpkin spice lattes popping up all over the blog world but they all seemed way to complicated and time-consuming. I wanted an EASY recipe I could whip up first thing in the morning when my eyes were barely open. Brittany’s pumpkin spice latte is a dream come true and combines the best flavors of fall in one creamy, steamy latte!
- Peanut Butter Runner’s Braised Cabbage
I know I’ve talked about my ridiculous love for cabbage on the blog a time or two (it’s the best and SO underrated), so when I saw Jen’s recipe for braised purple cabbage pop up on her blog, I instantly bookmarked it. The recipe is a little more time consuming than my usual favorites, but it is so worth it, especially since it makes a TON and can tastes delicious as leftovers throughout the week!
Question of the Day
- What are some of your all-time favorite recipes you’ve found on blogs over the years? Feel free to share a link below!
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Pinned this!! Thanks, Julie!! I’ve made the Spaghetti Pie before and you’re absolutely right — it’s incredible! Looking forward to trying out a few of these other recipes 🙂
-Sarah http://www.thefrugalmillionaireblog.com
Thanks for doing this roundup, Julie! I’ve got a bunch of new recipes to try now – perfect for the new year.
yummy!! Thanks for sharing all your favorites with us!! Have a great day!
Great round up! I love using blogger recipes as opposed to other food sites. And I haven’t tried a lot of these, I just bought a bunch of kale and am definitely going to try that kale salad as I HATE when kale tastes too chewy in a salad.
Great list. I make a quinoa salad very similar to Anne’s but I’m going to check hers out for sure.
I love braised cabbage, I can’t wait to try this! Happy New Year!
Aw yay – thank you for including my quinoa salad recipe! 🙂 So glad you’ve enjoyed it all these years!
Your BBQ meatloaf!! And definitely that Santa Fe Chicken. We make it every other week because LEFTOVERS! 🙂
Aw yay! So glad you like that meatloaf recipe! It’s definitely one of my favs!
Ah! Thank you for this list! I am always looking for new (healthy-ish) recipes and these all look amazing!! especially the crock pot ones… I love anything that can go in a crock pot 🙂
Thank you for sharing! For the spaghetti pie, do you use ground sausage or links cut up?
Kind of a mix, actually! I usually buy raw hot Italian chicken sausage links and then remove the sausage from the casings because I have a hard time finding hot ground chicken sausage around me!
IGE is like a staple food blogger in our house. I love so many of her recipes, from homemade hamburger helper, to the lighter buffalo chicken mac and cheese. Hard to pick one. I made this blogger recipe last night, and am eating the leftovers today! http://www.heatovento350.com/2013/07/enchilada-rice.html
I also love Gimmie Some Oven’s Energy Bites and similar to your recipe above, I love this skinny taste crockpot one: http://www.skinnytaste.com/crock-pot-sesame-honey-chicken/
I agree — IGE recipes are always so good!!
I make these a lot, because they really step up the hamburger game: http://thestayathomechef.com/homemade-hamburger-buns/. Usually I sub in about half whole wheat flour and they’re still delicious. I also use her refrigerator pizza dough recipe to have pizza dough on-hand.
And I feel like I have to tell you a total mom-brain moment. I saw you share that strawberry ice box cake a few months ago and it looked fantastic, so I decided to make it. But for some reason, in my head, I saw “ice box” and thought “freezer;” I didn’t realize my mistake until I took it out and the whipped cream was frozen solid. Made it, um, interesting to tackle, but it still tasted pretty great. My husband hasn’t let me live that one down.
So, just FYI, it tastes OK frozen; just a little harder to eat. 😉
LOL!!! Too funny!
That kale salad looks so good! I would have to swap out the almonds for walnuts, but still yummy!
The honey garlic chicken thighs look delicious. I can’t believe I’m saying that after all the delicious food I’ve had over Christmas.
Right!? My body was dying for something healthy yesterday!
I made Peanut Butter Runner’s homemade Pad Thai recipe for the first time last week and I have made it two more times since then! I love cabbage too so I may look into that recipe.
Ohhh! I’ll have to try that one!
I’ve been meaning to try several of these — especially Lindsay’s chicken thigh recipe. I need to get on that!
ha ha, I make a lot of YOUR recipes on the regular, so I’d just have to include a link RIGHT back to your blog! Obviously I make everybody’s favorite: banana bread protein pancakes! But like someone said above, the bbq meatloaf is da bomb! And that biscoff icebox cake – yummerific. And on and on and on and on……(I’ve even made the pineapple souffle………….droool…)
But I also love skinnytaste’s homemade salad dressing recipes!! I really detest store bought dressings, (I mean, I’ll do it in a pinch, buuuuut….) I also like a lot of Iowa Girl Eats recipes! And before Crissy Tiegan had a cookbook, she posted stuff on her instagram – she’s legit!! And something I have made on Christmas day for the last five years: The Pioneer Woman’s “Comfort meatballs” recipe. It’s very labor intensive, but they’re so good and everybody loses their mind over them! Always moist even if you overcook them! I’ve managed to cut down on the steps in that one a little bit (instead of rolling them in flour and searing them first, I just replace that step by par-baking them at high heat in the oven first, to brown them up, on non-coated cooling racks.)
Love your recipes, thanks for this great list!
Every single one of these looks delicious! We make a similar breakfast potato recipe and it’s always so easy and makes me feel like a domestic kitchen goddess, ha!
I seriously just pinned almost all of these recipes! My favorite blog recipe is probably Two Peas and Their Pod’s Apple peanut butter baked oatmeal.
I made three batches of your holiday spiced nuts between Halloween and Christmas and they were a big hit with everyone!
I also making your three minute egg white oatmeal alllll the time. I’m obsessed!
I stumbled across this recipe for paleo blueberry banana bread that I’ve made probably 20 times this year.
http://blog.thatcleanlife.com/healthy-happy-blueberry-banana-bread/
It’s SO good and I feel healthy just eating it!
I absolutely love paleomg’s pizza spaghetti squash pie, you should also check out her recipe for buffalo chicken spaghetti squash casserole!so good! Thanks for the recipe round up! I always trust your opinions!
thank you so much for sharing my recipe!! i’m so happy you like it <3
thank you for the list, too! i'm excited to try out so many of these. spaghetti pie may be happening tomorrow.
xoxo
Thank you for these recipes- they all look so delicious! I especially want to try the spaghetti pie! I have vegan pepperoni and a special tomato sauce that would be perfect for this! Now I just have to get me some spaghetti squash!
So happy to have discovered your blog! I pinned this list because I love kale and quinoa and would love to try some new things! I need to get out of my cooking rut! Thanks.
Wow!
This strawberry shortcake icebox cake looks awesome!
I Must to try this
Your blog is beautiful. You write so preety and the photos make me feel hunger.
Thank you for sharing