If you're looking for an easy, savory and delicious take on a hamantasch that will be a huge hit this purim, look no further than the Baked Tortilla Chip Hamantaschen! 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're still looking for the perfect shalach Manos or purim Seudah idea, I've got just the thing! These baked tortilla chip hamantaschen are inexpensive and easy to prepare, and look so cute! For the Seudahs, serve a platter of them with your favorite dips. For shalach Manos, put some in in a bag and send with a small container of your favorite dip! Either way, these … [Read more...]
Caramel Cheese Danish
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...]
Jumbo Loaded Chocolate Chunk Cookies {No Butter or Margarine}
There's nothing that will satisfy your intense cookie cravings more than this Jumbo Loaded Chocolate Chunk Cookies {No Butter or Margarine} Recipe 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! These cookies are simply perfect. Full of pools of chocolate, delicious flavored chips, and topped with flaky sea salt, these cookies are simply jumbo perfection. Did you know that I share cooking demos, menu plans, giveaways, and lots more exclusive content on Instagram? Follow me there for all that bonus content that you don’t want to … [Read more...]
Coffee and Caramel Ice Cream Trifle
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...]
Salami Eggrolls
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're looking for an ultra family-friendly recipe that's freezer friendly and super delicious, don't miss these salami eggrolls! It's a nice twist and so good. The texture of the small chunks of salami provides a really nice element that sets these apart from other eggrolls! Did you know that I share cooking demos, menu plans, giveaways, and lots more exclusive content on Instagram? Follow me there for all that bonus content that you don’t want to miss! Like This Recipe? You will absolutely LOVE my … [Read more...]
Brownie Bar Strudel
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...]
Honey Mustard Green Beans with Salami
Honey Mustard Green Beans with Salami are a side dish that's nice enough for a special meal, but easy to make and oh, so delicious! Click here to join the Overtime Cook WhatsApp Status, for exclusive recipes, tips and content! Some recipes are carefully planned. Other recipes, like this one, are created because I need a way to use something up. Recently, I was thinking about how to make green beans that I had, and I looked to my fridge for inspiration. And there it was! See, I recently made a recipe for my column in mishpacha magazine, and it used a log of salami. I was in Costco, and bought a two pack of salami logs, figuring I would find some way to use the other one. But it … [Read more...]
Loaded Pretzel Muddy Buddies
Kick your cereal treats up a notch or three with these Loaded Pretzel Muddy Buddies! Click here to join the Overtime Cook WhatsApp Status, for exclusive recipes, tips and content! Disclosure: this post is part of an ongoing partnership between overtime cook and Lieber’s foods. All opinions are, as always, 100% honest and my own. Thank you for supporting the brands that make this blog possible. The truth about this recipe is that I made it because I needed a small amount of a few different cereals for a different recipe I was working on, and I had these boxes of cereal staring me in the face every time I looked into my pantry for a week or two. Neither my husband nor … [Read more...]
World’s Best Potato Kugel
World's Best Potato Kugel - lots of people make this claim but this recipe truly wins! Do you receive the Overtime Cook newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips and more! Click here to sign up. I know, I know. That is a very bold claim. There are so many people out there who claim to make the world's best potato kugel. So what makes me feel qualified to say that my recipe is the best? It's simple. It's not my recipe. This is my sister's recipe and I'm just an objective taster. And let me tell you, this is some seriously good potato kugel! The thing about potato kugel recipes is that they're all really similar. You've got potatoes, eggs, oil, salt, pepper and (usually) onion. … [Read more...]
Homemade Golden Lollipops
Homemade Golden Lollipops are the perfect way to enhance any party, and they're a lot easier to make than they look! Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Domino® Sugar. All opinions are, as always, 100% true and 100% my own. Thank you for supporting the brands that make this blog possible. Confession time: there's a big part of me that wants to quit my job as a blogger and photographer and open up a business making homemade candy of all sorts. Sounds crazy to you? Well maybe it's because you've never before experienced the thrill of watching sugar boiling over your stove, thermometer in place, watching magic happen. Whether you're throwing a party and want to really impress … [Read more...]