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Pecan Butterscotch Cookies

February 3, 2025 by overtimecook Leave a Comment

Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? I send out a weekly menu plan, plus more. Click here to sign up. P.S – it’s completely free! I don't really know why, but I have a backlog of great recipes that I created for this website and somehow....never published them. What a shame! You guys could have been making these delicious cookies for over a year now, but I didn't publish the recipe. Until today!  These cookies are everything. Perfect texture. Perfect balance of flavor. Freezer friendly and no mixer required. What more could you ask for?   Did you know that I share cooking demos, menu plans, giveaways, and lots more exclusive content on Instagram? Follow … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cookies, Dessert, Freezer-Friendly, Holiday, Party, purim, Sukkos, Super-Easy Tagged With: baked goods, butterscotch, Cookies, dessert, easy recipe, freezer friendly, pecan, Recipes

Fluffiest Scrambled Eggs, Ever

August 11, 2024 by overtimecook Leave a Comment

Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? I send out a weekly menu plan, plus more. Click here to sign up. P.S – it’s completely free! I was thinking today about recipes that are good to break your fast on, which means, naturally, that I thought about my fluffiest ever scrambled eggs recipe. And then I realized that I never gave the recipe a permanent place on this blog. Today I made sure to rectify that.  This may sound like an exaggeration, but these scrambled eggs actually will change your life! So many people have tasted these and converted the way they make them, I know you'll be next!  I learned this trick from Kenji Lopez-Alt, author of The Food Lab. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breakfast, Super-Easy, Vegetarian Tagged With: breakfast, easy recipe, eggs, recipe

Chocolate Fluff Mousse

January 15, 2024 by overtimecook 5 Comments

Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. P.S – it’s completely free! Confession: I made this chocolate mousse because I am on a mission to clear out my pantry. I knew I wanted to make mousse of some kind, so I went to my pantry to see what I could find. And that's when I found a container of marshmallow fluff. The wheels in my brain started turning, and I came up with this incredible dessert.  The incredible thing about this recipe is the fantastic, pillowy texture that the marshmallow fluff gives this mousse. The other cool thing about this recipe is that there is an insanely rich chocolate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Chocolate, Dessert, Freezer-Friendly, Frozen Treats, Hanukkah, Holiday, Mousse and Trifle, Party, purim, Shabbos, Shavuot, Sukkos Tagged With: Chocolate, dessert, easy recipe, freezer friendly, gluten free, marshmallow, mousse, recipe, sweet

Caramel Cheese Danish

February 20, 2023 by overtimecook 1 Comment

Beautiful and easy to make, these Caramel Cheese Danishes are sure to be a hit!  Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. P.S – it’s completely free!   I recently did an informal poll on Instagram, asking my followers what their pastry of choice from a bakery is. Are you surprised to hear that about 65% of the respondents said cheese danishes? Well, with the help of prepared puff pastry, these delicious and eye-catching cheese danishes are easier to make than you would believe!  Did you know that I share cooking demos, menu plans, giveaways, and lots more exclusive content on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breakfast, Cheesecake/Dairy Desserts, Dairy, Dessert, Freezer-Friendly, Hanukkah, Holiday, Party, Pies/Tarts, purim, Shavuot Tagged With: cheese, cheese danish, dairy, danish, dessert recipe, easy recipe, purim, recipe, salted caramel, shavuos

Savory Cheese Waffles

December 14, 2022 by overtimecook 3 Comments

Savory Cheese Waffles are a delicious take on a sweet breakfast treat! Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. P.S – it’s completely free! If you've been following me for a while, you likely already know that I'm a big fan of waffles. No jokes, I consider them the ultimate breakfast food.  But what if waffles aren't just for breakfast? And what if we take a savory, cheesy spin on this treat?  Trust me friends, this is just.plain.incredible.  Did you know that I share cooking demos, menu plans, giveaways, and lots more exclusive content on Instagram? Follow me there for all that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Appetizers, Breakfast, Dairy, Freezer-Friendly, Hanukkah, Holiday, Party, Shavuot Tagged With: brunch, chanukah, cheese, dairy, easy recipe, lunch, waffles

Coffee and Caramel Ice Cream Trifle

October 6, 2022 by overtimecook 2 Comments

Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. P.S – it’s completely free! This post is published in partnership with OMG It's Dairy Free Ice Cream and Misceo Coffee Liqueur. All opinions are my own. Thank you for supporting the brands that enable me to share so many free recipes with you.    I know you're all always looking for a few things: easy desserts, recipes with no mixer, desserts that freeze nicely, and recipes that look fancier than the work involved. Well my friends, this beauty covers all those bases! Ice cream trifle is by definition freezer friendly. Instead of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Chocolate, Dessert, Freezer-Friendly, Frozen Treats, Hanukkah, Holiday, Mousse and Trifle, purim, Sukkos, Super-Easy Tagged With: Caramel, chanukah, Chocolate, coffee, dessert, easy dessert, easy recipe, freezer friendly, Holiday, ice cream, purim, sukkos, trifle

Brownie Bar Strudel

October 2, 2022 by overtimecook 16 Comments

Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. P.S – it’s completely free! I originally published this ridiculously easy yet impressive and beautiful brownie bar strudel recipe a bit over a year ago, in my column for Mishpacha magazine. It immediately went absolutely viral! Over the last year since then, I get weekly, sometimes daily requests to share the recipe on my blog. I'm not sure what took me so long, but here, at long last, you go! Enjoy!   Note that the original recipe had an error that left out the sugar quantity in the fudge filling, but I've added it in the printable recipe below. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bar Desserts, Chocolate, Dessert, Freezer-Friendly, Hanukkah, Holiday, Party, purim, Shavuot, Sukkos, Super-Easy Tagged With: brownie, dessert, easy dessert, easy recipe, Holiday, Puff Pastry, purim, Shabbat, sukkos

Honey Soy Braised Brisket

October 1, 2022 by overtimecook 1 Comment

Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. P.S – it’s completely free! This incredibly flavorful brisket recipe takes about five minutes to throw together, and the flavor is absolutely delicious.  Note: in this recipe I used a brisket that was gifted to me from Kosh.Com. Use coupon code overtimecook for 10% off your first order. This was definitely the softest and most tender brisket we've ever eaten!   Don't have a brisket? See notes on the recipe for other cuts of meat you can use.     Did you know that I share cooking demos, menu plans, giveaways, and lots more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hanukkah, Holiday, Main Courses, Meat, purim, Rosh Hashanah, Shavuot, Sukkos Tagged With: Beef, Braised, Brisket, easy recipe, freezer friendly, Honey, mains, Meat, soy

Quick and Easy Focaccia

September 4, 2022 by overtimecook 8 Comments

Quick and Easy Focaccia, where small efforts yield big results! Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. P.S – it’s completely free! Hey friends, it's been a while!  If you follow me on social media, you probably know that I've been recovering from surgery for the past few months. While not able to cook and be on my feet at all, I couldn't stop thinking about baking homemade focaccia. Don't ask me why! I just wanted to.  It took me so long, but I finally baked this delicious focaccia. And I sat there thinking to myself that it's so good, and so ridiculously easy, y'all are going to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Appetizers, Bread, Freezer-Friendly, Hanukkah, Holiday, Party, purim, Sukkos, Uncategorized Tagged With: Bread, easy recipe, freezer friendly

Crockpot Cabbage and Beef Stew

December 16, 2021 by overtimecook 7 Comments

Crockpot Cabbage and Beef Stew is a quick and easy comfort food dish that comes together in minutes and cooks in your crockpot as you go about your day!   Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. There's really nothing quite like a crockpot dinner to make me feel like I've got my life together. No matter how tired I am after my work day, no matter if the house is flying, dinner is ready when I'm ready for it, and I don't need to do anything. The fact that the house will smell amazing when you arrive home (or all day, if you work from home like I do!) is just a nice big bonus!  This … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Holiday, Main Courses, Meat, Passover, Passover, Soups, Sukkos Tagged With: Beef, crockpot, dinner, easy recipe, Meat, Passover, pesach, recipe, stew

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