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Spooning sauce over French mustard chicken thighs.

30 Minute Meals

Best Chicken Thigh Recipes for Weeknight Dinners

Chicken thighs are quick, cheap, and universally loved by everybody in the family, you simply can’t beat them for…

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gluten free chocolate almond pear cake, topped with thin sliced pear halves.

Gluten-Free Chocolate Almond Pear Cake

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My gluten free chocolate almond pear cake is a melt-in-your-mouth flourless chocolate cake topped with thin slices of juicy…

Appetizer wreath with fruits, nuts, cheese, and crackers.

Holiday Appetizer Wreath

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No chill sugar cookies for baking with kids.

No Chill Sugar Cookies (Perfect for Baking with Kids)

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a slice of German sour cherry streusel cake on a plate with a fork.

Sour Cherry Streusel Cake (German style)

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taking a wedge of gooey baked Brie

How to Bake Brie

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Do you know how to bake Brie the right way? Baked brie is one of the most luxuriously easy…

Holiday Week Breakfasts

apple cider doughnuts with cider in a mug with cinnamon stick

Baked Apple Cider Doughnuts ~ New York Times Recipe

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Cranberry crumble pancakes with cranberry maple syrup dripping down.

Cranberry Crumble Pancakes

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spooning hollandaise sauce on quiche

Eggs Benedict Quiche with Hollandaise Sauce

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French press drinking chocolate in pretty white mugs.

French Press Breakfast Chocolate

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Sue Moran, head chef, recipe developer, and food photographer at The View from Great Island

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Hey there ~ I’m Sue, head chef and author of over 2k quick and easy recipes here at the Great Island kitchen. I’ve been honing my craft as a professional cook and baker for 15 years, perfecting delicious everyday recipes so you don’t have to. Let’s grab a bite together!

Sue’s NYE Faves

chocolate truffle tart topped with Maldon salt

Chocolate Ganache Tart

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raspberry and champagne sorbet

Raspberry Champagne Sorbet

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A Black-eyed Pea Salad in a white bowl with a spoonful of Meyer Lemon Rosemary Vinaigrette

Lucky Black-eyed Pea Salad for the New Year!

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Chocolate Cakes!

Chocolate Biscuit Cake ~ Queen Elizabeth's favorite cake!

Queen Elizabeth’s Chocolate Biscuit Cake

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Taking a bite of chocolate blackout cake with a fork.

Brooklyn Blackout Cake

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slice of chocolate layer cake

Ina Garten’s Chocolate Cake Recipe

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flourless Belgian chocolate cake

Flourless Chocolate Cake

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How to Roast Beef Tenderloin

Easy instructions for the perfect roast, no muss no fuss ~ just juicy meat!

Grab the full recipe here →

lemon olive oil cake, with a slice being removed.

Lemon Olive Oil Cake

Lemon olive oil cake is a deliciously moist and tender Mediterranean style lemon cake perfect with a cup of coffee or tea!

Baking with Olive Oil

removing a slice of orange cake with a cake server

Healthier Baking with Olive Oil

Gluten free Chocolate Olive Oil Cake, topped with powdered sugar and fruit.

Chocolate Olive Oil Cake

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olive oil chocolate chip cookies with chopped chocolate.

Olive Oil Chocolate Chunk Cookies

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Fall Biscuits!

a stack of buckwheat biscuits with a butter knife.

Buckwheat Biscuits

cornmeal biscuits, stacked on a cooling rack.

Cornmeal Biscuits

3 ingredient biscuits in a pile

Classic 3-Ingredient Biscuits

cardamom buns on a baking tray with cup of coffee

Swedish Cardamom Buns (kardemummabullar)

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Swedish Cardamom Buns are soft, plush sweet rolls with a fragrant cardamom sugar filling. This easy knotted pastry is…

Holiday Cookies

frosted cookies with sprinkles on a cooling rack

60+ Best Christmas Cookies of All Time!

cardamom linzer cookies with lingonberry jam.

Cardamom Linzer Cookies with Lingonberry Jam

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stacked chewy ginger molasses cookies

Chewy Ginger Cookies

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chocolate dipped orange shortbread cookies

Chocolate Dipped Orange Shortbread Cookies

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cinnamon star bread on parchment paper.

Sweet Breakfast

Cinnamon Star Bread

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Cinnamon star bread is a soft, pull-apart cinnamon sugar bread twisted into a gorgeous star. Shockingly easy, seriously impressive.

Cardamom Recipes

Taking a slice of cardamom crumb cake.

Cardamom Crumb Cake

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orange cardamom muffins in a muffin tin with fresh oranges.

Orange Cardamom Muffins

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Cardamom pistachio pound cake, sliced with forks.

Pistachio Cardamom Pound Cake

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close look at orange cardamom scones with butter.

The Orange Cardamom Scones Taking Over My Kitchen!

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Gluten Free Cakes

Fabulously moist and delicious cakes made without wheat flour!

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Almond Ricotta Cake

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Gluten free Chocolate Olive Oil Cake, topped with powdered sugar and fruit.

Chocolate Olive Oil Cake

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a slice of whole tangerine cake

Flourless Tangerine Cake

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flourless Belgian chocolate cake

Flourless Chocolate Cake

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taking a wedge of gooey baked Brie

The Best Baked Brie Recipes

Baked Brie is the easiest slam dunk appetizer ever invented. If you can turn on the oven you can…

Tender & Moist Ricotta Cakes!

a slice of chocolate chip ricotta cake on a plate.

Chocolate Chip Ricotta Cake

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Lemon Poppy Seed Ricotta Cake

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Lemon Blueberry Ricotta Cake

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Orange Ricotta Cake

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Chicken Thigh Dinners

Creamy Tuscan Chicken thighs cooking in a cream sauce.

Creamy Tuscan Chicken Thighs

Taking a French mustard chicken thigh with tongs.

French Mustard Chicken

chicken thighs with white beans and greens in a pan

Chicken Thighs with Beans and Greens

Lemon Desserts

Lemon desserts are our favorites all year round!

Explore all lemon recipes

lemon butter pie, with bite taken

Lemon Butter Pie

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A stack of glazed Buttermilk Lemon Bread slices

Buttermilk Lemon Bread

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lemon crumble bars, sliced.

Lemon Crumble Bars

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removing a slice of lemon bundt cake

Lemon Drizzle Cake

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Roasted Mediterranean side of salmon

Mediterranean Sheet Pan Salmon

Mediterranean Sheet Pan Salmon looks impressive but is so easy. This heart healthy meal is full of omega 3s and comes together in 30 minutes!

Mediterranean Recipes

Greek recipe for meatballs in lemon sauce.

12 Greek Recipes You’ve Got to Try!

Crock Pot Beef Bourguignon with carrots, potatoes, and tender beef.

Crock Pot Beef Bourguignon

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Giada's lemon spaghetti twirled on a fork

Giada’s Lemon Spaghetti ~ a no cook sauce!

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Winter Soups

creamy ramen with turkey and fixings

30 Minute Meals

Creamy Ramen with Turkey (and Chili Crisp!)

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Dill Pickle Soup with Brats

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Finnish Salmon Soup – Lohikeitto ~ this simple salmon and potato soup is the ultimate 30 minute spring meal, with a light cream broth, melt-in-your-mouth chunks of salmon, and tons of fresh dill!

Finnish Salmon Soup (Lohikeitto)

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white bean and bacon soup with spoon.

White Bean and Bacon Soup

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Warming Drinks for Winter

Pouring drinking chocolate into a small cup

Ultimate Drinking Chocolate

Ladling mulled cider into a mug, with steam rising.

butterscotch steamer

Butterscotch Steamer

Chocolate Chip Cookies

thin and crispy chocolate chip cookies.

Thin and Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies

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hand holding a stack of soft batch chocolate chip cookies.

Soft Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Holding a double chocolate thin and crispy cookie.

Double Chocolate Thin and Crispy Cookies

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Hilton's DoubleTree Chocolate Chip Cookie with a bite taken

DoubleTree Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe ~ the secret’s out!

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white bean and bacon soup, one of my favorite Dutch oven soup recipes.

BEST Dutch Oven Soup Recipes!

A good Dutch oven is made for soup season. These are my go-to recipes for cozy, fuss-free soups that…

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Spicy Thai Spaghetti Salad in glass bowl

Thai Spaghetti Salad

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rhubarb breakfast cake

Easy Rhubarb Cake

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Mom’s Creamy Potato Salad Recipe

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buttermilk doughnut cake on rack

Glazed Old Fashioned Doughnut Cake

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a slice of blueberry lemon layer cake with fork

Blueberry Lemon Cake

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Mediterranean roasted sheet pan salmon with tomatoes, olives, onion, and lemon

Mediterranean Sheet Pan Salmon

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